5 of the best death bowlers in World Cup history

The modernization of cricket has hurt the bowlers more than anyone else. Pitches are just mostly a 22-yard turf of flat deck that favour the batsmen more than anyone else.

In fact, some people have gone as far as claiming that cricket is a batsmen’s game—making aspiring young bowlers wonder whether they made the right decision to choose bowling.

And it is of no wonder that we don’t produce bowlers like the Waqars and Wasims anymore. However, of the little that is left in today’s time, very few of them could be labelled as good death bowlers.

While bowling in general is an art, bowling at the death is deception. Someone could be a great bowler, but could be handed the beating of his life in the final part of the innings, when batsmen don’t really care for technique and just focus on slogging.

Castrol Activ’s Actibonds protect the engine by clinging on and forming a protective coat, just like these 5 players, who protected their teams by performing well at the death with the match on the line.

However, teams with a great death bowler have always succeeded in major tournaments, and here are five such bowlers -

#1. Dwayne Bravo

This might be a strange inclusion in a list like this, but a valid one nonetheless. Not so long ago, West Indies were a team that were neck deep in mess. Bust-ups between players and the board meant that many of them refused to represent the Caribbean.

Things were looking bleak, but just under a couple of years later, West Indies were champions of the world in the shortest format of the game.

The win not only brought joy to the hearts of fans, but also wove a story of great inspiration. Every player did their part in that team. However, when it came to bowling in the death, Dwayne Bravo beat them all.

The West Indian bowled some phenomenal late spells that hindered the progress of batsmen, saving his team some valuable runs. His use of the slower ball was really well disguised as many batsmen fell prey to the bait.