Yorker in cricket is the delivery where the cricket ball pitches on or near the batsman’s popping crease.It is very difficult for the batsman to play the delivery, moreover, it is very difficult to bowl the delivery with extreme perfection which needs constant practise.
Yorkers are usually bowled by fast bowlers.Perfect yorkers will get a batsman out by bowled or LBW (Leg Before Wicket).If a batsman blocks such a ball, it is referred to as “dug out”.Inswinging yorkers or reverse swinging yorkers are even dangerous for the batsman to play.Inswinging or reverse swinging grip are mostly used to produce perfect yorkers.
Batsman find inswinging deliveries very hard to defend and score runs and such deliveries are colloquially called as sandshoe crusher, toe crusher or nail breaker.The Pakistani bowling legends Waqar Younis and Wasim Akram are expert in this kind of bowling.Darren Gough of England also find to bowl this kind of deliveries.Brett Lee of Australia and Shoaib Akhtar of Pakistan bowls yorkers along with their deadly speed.Dale Steyn of South Africa is the another bowler who bowls out-swinging yorkers.
How to ball a Yorker?
A yorker is usually bowled very late in the action with the hand almost pointing directly vertical.This will give the bowler more pace and later delivering the ball will deceive the batsman in flight
