Sri Lanka celebrates after ace bowler Muralitharan breaks world record for most test wickets
Leading ODI cricket wicket-takers 2024 Published by Statista Research Department, May 15, 2024 As of May 2024, the leading wicket-taker of all time in One Day Internationals is Sri Lanka's Muttiah Muralidaran. The right-arm spin bowler took 534 wickets in an ODI career spanning from 19...
For bowlers, I have considered wickets taken as the basis for comparison. A hundred and three bowlers had more wickets in the first half of their careers and 90 had more in the second half. Again, there is nothing in it, as evidenced by the overall mean Index value...
“Taking a wicket” means a bowler — think pitcher — has got a batter out. Take 10 wickets and the innings is over. Modes of dismissal — when a wicket is taken — include bowled, caught, run out or trapped leg before wicket. Wickets also refers to the three wooden stump...
which has previously played Kolkata Knight Riders, Royal Challengers Bangalore, Delhi Capitals and Mumbai Indians attracted awards from Mumbai and Chennai Super Kings. He has been a reliable bowler in the IPL — his 36 wickets have come from just 26 games at a sensible economy rate of 7.66. ...
There was a huge drop when Delhi bought Mitchell Starc for $1.40 million, after last year’s record $2.98 million by Kolkata for the Australian left-arm fast bowler. Starc’s countryman David Warner and Jonny Bairstow of England remained unsold on the opening day after none of the 10 fran...
A bowler who was once ranked number one in the world, a double Ashes winner, with series victories over every other Test-playing nation behind him, a veteran of more than 140 international appearances, who sits tenth in England's all-time leading Test match wicket takers, Harmison could be...
a game for more than 90 minutes..that's why soccer became popular. You know what... watch or play at least shorter form of cricket as a bowler, batsman & an active fielder..I bet you will enjoy cricket, agrees it as a most active game..& soccer goes second in your list..if ...
greatest bowler in the history of Cricket, was humbled by AB DeVilliers. In an IPL match, DeVilliers smashed Steyn for 23 runs in an over, which eventually proved to be a match winning effort. Steyn just stood there awestruck and even let out a smile at his national teammate’s ...
a brief lay-off of twenty-seven years." As bowler, he found: "I could still skittle the rabble out, but was helpless when I came up against a decent bat." As opening batsman, he experienced the bathos of making the the top score of 5 in "one of our local Test matches, the ...