Toe-crushers

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Toecrushers is an alternative name for yorker deliveries (usually inswinging ones) in cricket. This term was probably first used by TV commentators{{Cite web |date=2022-04-03 |title=Toe-crusher in cricket - the main meaning of the term |url=https://isport.in/toe-crusher/ |access-date=2025-02-22 |website=iSPORT.in |language=en-GB}} in early 1990s to describe the frequent inswinging yorkers bowled by Pakistani fast bowlers Wasim Akram and Waqar Younis. Younis{{Cite web |author=Scroll Staff |date=2020-08-02 |title=Pause, rewind, play: Waqar Younis and his extraordinary late-swinging, toe-crushing yorker |url=https://scroll.in/field/969174/pause-rewind-play-waqar-younis-and-his-extraordinary-late-swinging-toe-crushing-yorker |access-date=2025-02-22 |website=Scroll.in |language=en}} has also been called the toe-crusher{{Cite web |date=2004-04-13 |title=Waqar the toe-crusher calls time |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/cricket/2376749/Waqar-the-toe-crusher-calls-time.html |access-date=2025-02-22 |website=The Telegraph |language=en}} due to his iconic late in-swinging yorkers.

Toe crushers are said to be much more difficult to play as the ball nips in just before it lands giving it a higher chance for the batsman to miss and get bowled while trying to defend or hit it.