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Muttiah Muralitharan, being the highest wicket taker in ODI cricket. Wasim Akram, rated the best ODI bowler by Wisden in 2003, [1] is one of the two bowlers who have taken over 500 wickets in ODIs. [2] Taking 300 or more wickets across a playing career is considered a significant achievement in One Day International (ODI) cricket. [3]
Indian cricketer Sachin Tendulkar has scored the most runs in ODIs with a total of 18,426. Sri Lankan spinner Muttiah Muralitharan is the highest ODI wicket-taker with a total of 534 wickets. The record for most dismissals by a wicket-keeper is held by Kumar Sangakkara of Sri Lanka while the record for most catches by a fielder is held by Sri ...
[1] [2] [3] ODIs consist of one innings per team, with a limit to the number of overs. This limit is currently 50 overs, although in the past it has been 55 or 60 overs. [4] Martin Guptill is the highest individual scorer in any ICC tournament with 237 runs, the second highest individual score.
Wasim Akram, former captain of Pakistan national cricket team and widely acknowledged as one of the greatest bowlers of all time and "Sultan of Swing", is the second highest wicket-taker in ODIs behind Sri Lankan wizard Muttiah Muralitharan. [130]
As of March 2024, former Sri Lankan cricketer Muttiah Muralitharan has the highest aggregate with 800 wickets. [6] He also holds the record for the most five-wicket hauls (67) and ten-wicket hauls in a match (22); his 16 wickets for 220 runs against England in 1998 is the fifth-best bowling performance by a player in a match.
Pakistan's Saqlain Mushtaq holds the record for most wickets taken in a year when he took 69 wickets in 1997 in 36 ODIs. India's Anil Kumble is joint-fifth on the list, having taken 61 wickets in 1996.
Jhulan Goswami is the leading wicket-taker in ODIs. Most career wickets. Wickets Bowler Innings Average Strike rate Period 255 Jhulan Goswami: 203: 22.04: 39.23:
1998–99 Carlton and United Series involving Australia, England and Sri Lanka and the 2019 Cricket World Cup saw the records set for the most wickets taken by a bowler in an ODI series when Australian pacemen Glenn McGrath and Mitchell Starc achieved a total of 27 wickets during the series, respectively.