by I was intrigued by the number of 'bowled' and 'leg-before-wicket'
dismissals Wasim Akram and Waqar Younis have achieved in their Test
careers. Leaving the wisecracks about umpiring aside, it suggests that
the batsmen have difficulty in putting their bats to Wasim/Waqar's
straight deliveries. Here is a list to put their achievement in
perspective (qualification - at least 100 Test wickets). The first
column (%) gives the 'bowled' and 'lbw' wickets added together as a
percentage of total number of wickets.
% B LBW Wkts
57.59 62 29 158 S Ramadhin (WI)
57.14 102 42 252 JB Statham (Eng)
56.82 98 102 352 Waqar Younis (Pak)
56.58 98 31 228 RR Lindwall (Aus)
54.19 59 25 155 MW Tate (Eng)
53.38 102 119 414 Wasim Akram (Pak)
50.69 47 26 144 WJ O'Reilly (Aus)
50.00 32 22 108 DVP Wright (Eng)
Bottom of the list:
24.39 26 4 123 EJ Chatfield (NZ)
23.48 23 8 132 AA Mallett (Aus)
22.22 19 9 126 B Yardley (Aus)
22.12 14 9 104 CL Hooper (WI)
21.49 17 9 121 PCR Tufnell (Eng)
Bonus stat: a bowler can take a wicket in seven different ways -
bowled, caught by the wicketkeeper, caught in the field, caught and
bowled, leg-before-wicket, hit-wicket and stumped. Obviously many
bowlers have achieved all these forms of dismissals in their Test
careers. Here is a list of bowlers who have achieved this feat despite
of taking less than 50 wickets in their Test careers.
13 JB Stollmeyer (WI)
29 MN Hart (NZ)
30 JW Hearne (Eng)
33 TR Veivers (Aus)
41 Arshad Ayub (Ind)
45 IAR Peebles (Eng); L Amarnath (Ind)
48 OG Smith (WI)
49 JC White (Eng)
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