ABU DHABI: Head coach of Pakistan cricket team Waqar Younis is celebrating his 44th birthday on Monday, TheNewsTribe.com reported.
Waqar Younis regarded as one of the greatest and fastest bowlers of all time.[4][5] Currently, he is the coach of Pakistan Cricket team.
This is big day for Pakistan cricket as on this day Pakistani soil gave a ‘King of Reverse Swing’ to cricket of Pakistan.
As of 2012, he holds the record for the youngest Pakistani Test captain and the third youngest Test captain in history (22 years 15 days).
He played 87 Tests and 262 One Day International (ODI) matches for Pakistan during his international cricket career from 1989 to 2003.[8]
Younis’ trademark was his ability to reverse swing a cricket ball at high speed.
 He took 373 Test wickets and 416 One Day International wickets during his career. Together with bowling partner Wasim Akram, he formed one of the world’s most feared bowling attacks.
Younis has the best strike rate, after Dale Steyn, for any bowler with over 350 Test wickets.
The world’s fastest sprinter and runner Usain Bolt, who is from Jamaica (in the West Indies), once famously replied while being asked about who were his heroes when he was a child: “When I was really small I loved the Pakistan cricket team.
Waqar Younis was one of the greatest bowlers ever, and I was a bowler so I really enjoyed watching him. I was a big Pakistan fan until I got older, when I noticed that I should actually support my home team.” When asked what if there was a match between Pakistan and Windies, Bolt remarked “I would still have supported Pakistan, that’s what I’m saying – when I was little, it was all about Pakistan.”
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