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Taking 300 or more wickets across a playing career is considered a significant achievement in Test cricket. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] First accomplished in 1964 by Englishman Fred Trueman , [ 5 ] as of October 2024 [update] the feat has been achieved by only 39 cricketers in the history of the game.
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]
^ Hanif shared stands of 152 with Imtiaz Ahmed (97) for the first wicket, 112 with Alimuddin (37) for the second wicket, 154 with Saeed Ahmed (65) for the third wicket, and 121 with Wazir Mohammad (35) for the fourth wicket, on the way to a Pakistan score of 657 for 8 declared. His 970-minute innings is the longest in Test cricket and was the ...
Alan Davidson (Australia), in the tied 1st Test at Brisbane against the West Indies in 1960–61, was the first man to score 100 runs and take 10 wickets in a match (and is the only other player to achieve this so far), but without a century: his two scores with the bat were 44 and 80, in addition to 11 wickets (5/135 and 6/87).
In the four World Cup's he played in: 1992, 1996, 1999 and 2003, he took 44 wickets [3] and was the joint highest wicket-taker for India in World Cups with Zaheer Khan. [4] He is one of the fastest bowlers to have played for India. Srinath retired from international cricket after the 2003 Cricket World Cup in South Africa.
On 29 December 2020, in the First Test of the series against Pakistan, Southee became the Third bowler for New Zealand to take 300 wickets in Test cricket. Southee played his first match in the 2019 Cricket world cup against England on 3 July 2019 at the Riverside Ground. It was his only match played in the entire CWC 2019. In that match, he ...
[1] [2] He represented England in 67 Test matches, and was the first bowler to take 300 wickets in a Test career, taking twelve years and 65 Tests to reach the landmark. [3] Trueman's wicket tally included seventeen five-wicket hauls (also known as "five-fors" or "fifers") [4] [5] which refer to a bowler taking five or more wickets in a single ...
Scoring a century is loosely equivalent in merit to a bowler taking a five-wicket haul, and is commonly referred to as a ton or hundred. Scores of more than 200 runs are still statistically counted as a century, although these scores are referred to as double (200–299 runs), triple (300–399 runs), and quadruple centuries (400–499 runs ...