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Shoaib Akhtar reveals the secret to breaking the 160kmph barrier

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Pakistan’s legendry former pacer Shoaib Akhtar uncovered the preparation strategies that assisted him with speeding up and at last permitted him to break the 160kmph hindrance in ICC WorldCup 2003.

In a video, shared on his YouTube channel, Akhtar said: “I use to bowl 157 and 158kmph reliably however some way or another I couldn’t click 160kph. I began arranging with respect to myself to prepare to cross the 160kmph boundary.”

The Rawalpindi Express proceeded: “At first, I attached up myself to a tire and pulled it however the tire was excessively light to fabricate my muscles.

Afterward, during the evening time in Islamabad, I attached myself to a little vehicle and pulled it yet this additionally looked light preparation for my body.”

Shoaib Akhtar kept up with that he later wanted to attach himself to a truck and pull it. This worked out, as he began preparing and figured out how to pull a truck to just about 5 miles, he added.

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Shoaib Akhtar while uncovering his rec center preparation said, “I multiplied my weight lifting for purpose of building muscles in the exercise center. This began changing my biomechanics.”

He likewise figured out how to change his preparation in the nets meeting. “I began bowling on 26 yards pitch as opposed to ordinary 22 yards pitch and intended to bowl at 150kph on a drawn out pitch” he added.

“I later began bowling with an old and torn ball on a 26 yards contribute which step by step came about expanding my speed.”

While reviewing ICC WorldCup 2002, he said: “My partners during ICC WorldCup 2003 let me know that I’m bowling very speedy and may harm players during the uber occasion.

I told my kindred partners that I will break the record for the quickest conveyance which later I did during ICC WorldCup 2003”

Shoaib Akhtar holds the record for bowling with 161.3 kmph against England in the 2003 ICC World Cup.

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