Harbhajan Singh completes 700 wickets in international Cricket
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.
| Player | Country | Mat | Inns | Wkts | BBI | BBM | Ave | Econ | SR | 5 | 10 |
| Muttaih Muralitharan | Sri Lanka | 495 | 583 | 1347 | 9/51 | 16/220 | 22.86 | 2.92 | 46.8 | 77 | 22 |
| Shane Warne | Australia | 339 | 464 | 1001 | 8/71 | 12/128 | 25.51 | 2.98 | 51.2 | 38 | 10 |
| Anil Kumble | India | 403 | 501 | 956 | 10/74 | 14/149 | 30.09 | 3.11 | 57.8 | 37 | 8 |
| Glenn McGrath | Australia | 376 | 493 | 949 | 8/15 | 27-Oct | 21.76 | 2.93 | 44.5 | 36 | 3 |
| Wasim Akram | Pakistan | 460 | 532 | 916 | 7/119 | 11/110 | 23.57 | 3.17 | 44.5 | 31 | 5 |
| Shaun Pollock | South Africa | 423 | 510 | 829 | 7/87 | 10/147 | 23.73 | 2.92 | 48.6 | 21 | 1 |
| Waqar Younis | Pakistan | 349 | 412 | 789 | 7/36 | 13/135 | 23.7 | 3.88 | 36.6 | 35 | 5 |
| Chaminda Vaas | Sri Lanka | 439 | 520 | 761 | 8/19 | 14/191 | 28.44 | 3.3 | 51.7 | 16 | 2 |
| Courteny Walsh | West Indies | 337 | 446 | 746 | 7/37 | 13/55 | 26.28 | 2.88 | 54.7 | 23 | 3 |
| Brett Lee | Australia | 322 | 392 | 718 | 5/22 | 9/171 | 26.66 | 4.06 | 39.3 | 19 | 0 |
| Daniel Vettori | New Zealand | 442 | 498 | 705 | 7/87 | 12/149 | 32.42 | 3.14 | 61.9 | 22 | 3 |
Harbhajan Singh |
India | 359 | 435 | 701 | 8/84 | 15/217 | 32.49 | 3.31 | 58.7 | 28 | 5 |
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.
| Player | Country | Inns |
| Muttaih Muralitharan | Sri Lanka | 308 |
| Shane Warne | Australia | 354 |
| Waqar Younis | Pakistan | 355 |
| Glenn McGrath | Australia | 358 |
| Brett Lee | Australia | 381 |
| Wasim Akram | Pakistan | 382 |
| Anil Kumble | India | 389 |
| Shaun Pollock | South Africa | 411 |
| Courteny Walsh | West Indies | 426 |
| Harbhajan Singh | India | 435 |
| Chaminda Vaas | Sri Lanka | 469 |
| Daniel Vettori | New Zealand | 494 |
(Stats Updated till 14th July, 2015)
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