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Waqar joins 300 wickets club

Pakistan pace bowler Waqar Younis, with 300 wickets at the end of the Sri Lanka's first innings of the ongoing Colombo Test match, joins the exclusive club of bowlers who have taken over 300 wickets in Test matches. He is the third Pakistani bowler to do so after Imran Khan and Wasim Akram.

A statistical analysis of the bowlers record.

300th TEST WICKETS FOR PAKISTANI WAQAR YOUNIS
  M B Md R W Ave Best 5wi 10M SR ER
Australia 9 1586 55 825 24 34.38 4/69 - - 66.08 3.12
England 8 1746 54 988 38 26.00 5/52 3 - 45.95 3.40
India 4 642 19 390 8 48.75 4/80 - - 80.25 3.65
New Zealand 9 2259 103 1008 62 16.26 7/76 5 2 36.44 2.68
South Africa 5 896 30 478 20 23.90 6/78 1 1 44.80 3.20
Sri Lanka 10 1618 37 956 47 20.34 6/34 4 1 34.43 3.55
West Indies 11 1859 40 1087 47 23.13 5/46 3 - 39.55 3.51
Zimbabwe 9 1995 73 1004 54 18.59 7/91 5 1 36.94 3.02
Total 65 12601 411 6736 300 22.45 7/76 21 5 42.00 3.21
 
Wickets Taken:
At Home: 148 (29 matches)
Away: 152 (36 matches)
 
First Innings: 181
Second Innings: 119
 
Batsmen dismissed on most occasions:
Mark Greatbatch NZ 8
Graeme Hick ENG 5
Chris Pringle NZ 5
Richie Richardson WI 5
Carl Hooper WI 5
Andy Flower ZIM 5
Ken Rutherford NZ 5
Sanath Jayasuria SL 5
 
Mode of Dismissals:
  NOS %
Bowled 85 28.33
Ct by fielder 69 23.00
Ct by Keeper 47 15.66
Ct & Bld 6 2.00
LBW 93 31.00
Total 300  
 
Category of victims as per batting order:
OP 64
3rd 37
4th 26
5th 27
6th 33
7th 24
8th 24
9th 27
10th 20
11th 18
%Top order (1-6) 62.33%
 
Category of victims as per batting style:
RHB LHB Total
219 81 300
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