Wasim Akram left quite the impression during his time in county cricket with Lancashire.

While they never managed to secure the County Championship during his 11-year spell with the county, Lancashire were one of the most successful white-ball sides in the country throughout Akram’s stay at Old Trafford. One of Akram’s most famous traits was his ability to reverse swing the ball and on a recent Sky Sports Cricket Watchalong, David Lloyd, Akram’s coach at Lancashire during the mid-90s, explained how Akram would work on this skill in his own unique way.

“He was funny, he was great. He would ring up sometimes and just say, ‘I’m in for one hour [to] bowl.’ He’d turn up in his jeans. He’d turn up in a pair of jeans and bowl in the nets for an hour with a young fella he brought over with him from Lahore. He brought this chap over and he sort of looked after the house. He was a cleaner, a janitor – he did all sorts of things. He brought him in to bat. This lad was absolutely hopeless.”