evidence: That something has been their bowling. The strongest bowling unit amongst all the Asian sides, especially in the pace department, Pakistan won a majority of games on the back of their pace battery, the main ingredient to win outside the Indian sub-continent. The highest wicket-takers for India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh are spinners; for Pakistan, the top three spots in that list are occupied by fast bowlers. Their wickets tally is led by arguably the best left-arm seamer of all-time and birthday boy, Wasim Akram. [...] Akram operated with a short run-up and almost a non-existent follow-through. In between, there was a whippy action that instilled the delivery with all the tricks through his inimitable wrist. To create a reference for millennials who did not see Akram bowl, he made bowling look as easy as Rohit Sharma does with his batting nowadays. You want to copy them but you know you can only wish to do so.