Ranking top 5 current bowlers with best yorkers

4. Lasith Malinga

Lasith Malinga loves bowling a yorker at any point of the game. A major group of fans also call him ‘Yorker King’. The right-handed fast bowler from Sri Lanka is moving in the fag end of his career. But, he still has terrific control over the same.

Malinga’s action makes it difficult for the batsmen to pick his deliveries. His secret weapon is his in-swinging yorker but he holds the talent of moving the ball in both the direction. If batsmen fail to connect his inswinger, then the chances are always high that the batter will have to return back to the pavilion.

In the concluded year, he grabbed four wickets in four balls against New Zealand in a T20I game. The interesting thing was that he grabbed three wickets on yorkers out of the four. He is the only bowler in the history of cricket to do so. As far as the stats are concerned until September 2019, he had bowled a staggering number of 872 yorkers. Looking at his recent past performances, he is 4th in the list of current bowlers with best workers in international cricket at the moment.