Work Horses of Pakistan in ODI Bowling

Shahid Afridi is now the third most used bowler ever for Pakistan in One Day Internationals. Following is the list of Pak bowlers and the number of bowls they have thrown.

  1. Wasim Akram: 18186 balls, 502 wickets, 36.22 strike rate
  2. Waqar Younis: 12698 b, 416 w, 30.52 sr
  3. Shahid Afridi: 9832 b, 211 w, 46.59 sr
  4. Abdul Razzak: 9797 b, 246 w, 39.8 sr
  5. Saqlain Mushtaq: 8770 b, 288 w, 30.45 sr
  6. Aaqib Javed: 8012 b, 182 w, 44.02 sr
  7. Mushtaq Ahmed: 7543 b, 161 w, 46.85 sr
  8. Imran Khan: 7461 b, 182 w, 40.99 sr
  9. Shoaib Akhtar: 6498 b, 218 w, sr 29.81
  10. Azhar Mahmood: 6242 b, 123 w, sr 50.74

*The above statistics are valid upto and including 3rd ODI between Pakistan and India played on November 11, 2007. *

Re: Work Horses of Pakistan in ODI Bowling

Shoaib Akhtar is at the end of his career and he has bowled just over 1/3rd of Wasim's and about 1/2 of Waqar's deliveries. He should have bowled way more than these two especially considering the number of ODIs played per year have gone up so much since wasim and waqar's time. And his strike rate is pretty much the same as Waqar's too so you cant say that Shoaib produced any better results. Pathetic.

Re: Work Horses of Pakistan in ODI Bowling

Shoaib has the best strike rate. If he had bowled the same # of balls as Akram, he would be close to 600 wickets !!!!

What a talent wasted by tantrums and injuries !!!