Imran talks recalls the fear of facing Michael Holding, and Thomson talks about differences in speed-measuring techniques for bowlers.
A Sheikh met an angry fast-bowler in one of the matches played in UAE.
Dale Steyn is one of the all-time greats of fast bowling and Vernon Philander shows more than dangerous signs of becoming one. Arunabha Sengupta looks at the numbers to determine why oppositions have been shot out regularly for sub-50 scores against them.
Pakistan predictably found South Africa too hot to handle first up at Johannesburg and collapsed in the face of yet another Dale Steyn special.
For the last decade or so, the doomsayers and the apocalyptic prophets of the world have been predicting the extinction of the fast bowlers tribe.
With scorching pace, copious movement and the burning fire to succeed, Dale Steyn has risen to become the best paceman in contemporary cricket.
How cricket is lop-sided.