Of course he was inconsistent. The only full innings that he bowled well on was the second innings at the Oval - where he took early wickets with the the new ball. Up to that moment he had been awful with the ball in its first fifty overs in every test match. The two devastating pieces of reverse swing he got in the entire series were at Lords and Leeds. The Leeds 'demolition' as I said came too late as he had already given away 100 runs with useless short pitch rubbish before the ball started to swing violently.

At Lords, his swing also came late - a match which Pakistan would have once again lost had it not been for his and Akram's batting.

As a Surrey fan, I saw Waqar bowl for Surrey in 1991 and take over 100 wickets. He was the most continually destructive bowler I had seen in county cricket. He missed the world cup with his stress facture and when he came over to England, his action had changed and his slingy action made his control of where he was spraying the ball almost impossible. It disappointed me immensely - he was no longer the bowler that I had seen the year before, he was nothing special (he was merely good) -as his 1-96 at Edgbaston and his 1-96 and Manchester showed.

You are entitled to your opinion, but please do not tell me I am still hurting from what he did to me. I supported Pakistan during that series.