{"id":1655,"date":"2016-08-06T13:09:12","date_gmt":"2016-08-06T13:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/?p=1655"},"modified":"2016-08-08T13:14:22","modified_gmt":"2016-08-08T13:14:22","slug":"australian-pacer-starc-influenced-by-pakistan-legend-wasim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/?p=1655","title":{"rendered":"Australian pacer Starc influenced by Pakistan legend Wasim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/wasim.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1656\" src=\"http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/wasim.jpg\" alt=\"wasim\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" \/><\/a>Australian bowler Mitchell Starc revealed that he idolises former Pakistan pacer Wasim Akram, who he believes to be \u201can absolute genius\u201d. Talking to the Herald Sun, the 26-year-old said that the veteran\u2019s 414-wicket body of work in 104 matches set the standard for all left-armers. \u201cHe (Akram) was an absolute genius at bowling conventional swing, reverse swing, and bowling fast,\u201d he said. \u201cHe set the standard of left-arm fast bowling.\u201d He added: \u201cIf I could be even half the bowler that he was, that would be great.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Australian pacer said that apart from being a skilful bowler, the 1992 World Cup winner is also approachable for advice to youngsters, which helps the current crop of players to learn from the veterans. \u201cHaving the chance to work with him a couple of occasions, it\u2019s fantastic to chat to him,\u201d he said. \u201cHe\u2019s really open and approachable. He\u2019s great to talk to about left-arm fast bowling.\u201d Starc has represented Australia in 26 Tests and 51 ODIs, and currently he is touring of Sri Lanka with the national side. Earlier this year, Australia\u2019s coach and selector Darren Lehmann said that the left-arm quick has all theattributes to join the 300-wicket club.<\/p>\n<p>Source: Daily Times<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian bowler Mitchell Starc revealed that he idolises former Pakistan pacer Wasim Akram, who he&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1656,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[17,5,9,28,3,33,2],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/wasim.jpg",800,450,false],"thumbnail":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/wasim.jpg",150,84,false],"medium":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/wasim.jpg",300,169,false],"medium_large":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/wasim.jpg",640,360,false],"large":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/wasim.jpg",640,360,false],"1536x1536":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/wasim.jpg",800,450,false],"2048x2048":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/wasim.jpg",800,450,false],"enternews-featured":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/wasim.jpg",800,450,false],"enternews-medium":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/wasim.jpg",720,405,false],"enternews-thumbnail":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/wasim.jpg",480,270,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"admin","author_link":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/?cat=4\" rel=\"category\">Stories<\/a>","tag_info":"Stories","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1655"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1655"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1657,"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1655\/revisions\/1657"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}