Harbhajan Singh completes 700 wickets in international Cricket

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Harbhajan Singh completes 700 wickets in international Cricket. (Photo Source: Associated Press)

Harbhajan Singh completes 700 wickets in international Cricket: Harbhajan Singh completed 700 wickets in International Cricket when he got Sikandar Raza bowled in his final over during the 3rd ODI against Zimbabwe at Harare.

Harbhajan now became the 12th player and 2nd Indian to complete 700 wickets in international Cricket. He is one of the 5 spinners in this list. Anil Kumble was the other Indian who picked up more than 700 wickets at this stage.

Harbhajan Singh, has so far picked up 416 wickets in Test Cricket, 263 in ODI format and 22 in T20 Internationals.

List of all the bowlers with 700 wickets in International Cricket.

PlayerCountryMatInnsWktsBBIBBMAveEconSR510
Muttaih MuralitharanSri Lanka49558313479/5116/22022.862.9246.87722
Shane WarneAustralia33946410018/7112/12825.512.9851.23810
Anil KumbleIndia40350195610/7414/14930.093.1157.8378
Glenn McGrathAustralia3764939498/1527-Oct21.762.9344.5363
Wasim AkramPakistan4605329167/11911/11023.573.1744.5315
Shaun PollockSouth Africa4235108297/8710/14723.732.9248.6211
Waqar YounisPakistan3494127897/3613/13523.73.8836.6355
Chaminda VaasSri Lanka4395207618/1914/19128.443.351.7162
Courteny WalshWest Indies3374467467/3713/5526.282.8854.7233
Brett LeeAustralia3223927185/229/17126.664.0639.3190
Daniel VettoriNew Zealand4424987057/8712/14932.423.1461.9223
Harbhajan Singh
India3594357018/8415/21732.493.3158.7285

 

Harbhajan Singh took 435 innings to reach this mark, the 10th fastest to do so. Muttaih Muralitharan reached this mark in 308 innings, the fastest among all by a far margin.

Fastest to 700 wickets in International Cricket.

PlayerCountryInns
Muttaih MuralitharanSri Lanka308
Shane WarneAustralia354
Waqar YounisPakistan355
Glenn McGrathAustralia358
Brett LeeAustralia381
Wasim AkramPakistan382
Anil KumbleIndia389
Shaun PollockSouth Africa411
Courteny WalshWest Indies426
Harbhajan SinghIndia435
Chaminda VaasSri Lanka469
Daniel VettoriNew Zealand494

 

(Stats Updated till 14th July, 2015)

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