by LEG-SPIN BOWLERS IN ONE-DAY INTERNATIONALS
1. Most Career Wickets
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Since the commencement of One-Day Internationals, only ten right-arm
leg-spin bowlers have taken more than ten wickets in their One-Day
International careers.
The ten bowlers are listed below. These figures are complete to
28 January 1995, which is the completion of the New Zealand-West Indies
three-match one-day series. Only matches classed as full internationals
by the ICC have been included.
Name M BallsRuns Wkt Aver R/Ov S-Rate Best
Abdul Qadir P 104 5100 3443 132 26.08 4.05 38.64 5-44
Mushtaq Ahmed P 82 4095 3015 92 32.77 4.42 44.51 3-14
Anil Kumble I 59 3259 2186 69 31.68 4.02 47.23 6-12
Shane Warne A 35 1940 1209 63 19.19 3.74 30.79 4-19
D.S.De Silva S 41 2076 1556 32 48.63 4.50 64.88 3-29
Narendra Hirwani I 18 960 719 23 31.26 4.49 41.74 4-43
Wasim Raja P 54 1036 687 21 32.71 3.98 49.33 4-25
Asoka De Silva S 28 1374 967 17 56.88 4.22 80.82 3-38
L.Sivaramakrishnan I 14 654 468 14 33.43 4.29 46.71 3-25
Rajindra Dhanraj W 6 264 170 10 17.00 3.86 26.40 4-26
It is interesting to see from those figures just how good Shane Warne has
been at the limited-over game, with a wicket every 30 deliveries. On past
figures, he could be expected to take 2-37 in every ten overs at the
bowling crease. The early career figures for Rajindra Dhanraj are also
promising, and it is to be hoped that the West Indies selectors accept him
as a regular feature of their bowling attack.
England and Zimbabwe have each fielded just one leg-spinner in limited-over
internationals. Their figures follow:
Name M BallsRuns Wkt Aver R/Ov S-Rate Best
Ian Salisbury E 4 186 177 5 35.40 5.71 37.20 3-41
Paul Strang Z 4 234 153 4 38.25 3.92 58.50 2-30
No leg-spinner has to date bowled in one-day internationals for either New
Zealand or South Africa.
2. Best Bowling In An Innings
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There are eigh*** instances of leg-spinners taking 4 or more wickets in
a one-day international innings, Kumble's performance in the 1993 Hero Cup
Final being the best, while Qadir's 4-9 (in a NZ innings of 64 all out) is
the most economical:
O M R W Name For Agt Venue Date
6.1 0 12 6 Anil Kumble I WI Calcutta 27/11/93
12 1 44 5 Abdul Qadir P SL Headingley 16/06/83
10 0 53 5 Anil Kumble I NZ Wellington 30/03/94
10 1 53 5 Abdul Qadir P A Melbourne 21/01/84
10 4 9 4 Abdul Qadir P NZ Sharjah 15/04/86
5.2 0 17 4 Abdul Qadir P WI Lahore 29/11/85
10 1 19 4 Shane Warne A NZ Melbourne 16/12/93
12 4 21 4 Abdul Qadir P NZ Edgbaston 11/06/83
7 0 25 4 Wasim Raja P WI Adelaide 05/12/81
10 1 25 4 Shane Warne A NZ Adelaide 12/12/93
10 2 26 4 Rajindra Dhanraj WI NZ Guwahati 01/11/94
10 0 31 4 Abdul Qadir P E Rawalpindi 13/10/87
10 0 34 4 Shane Warne A NZ Sharjah 16/04/94
10 0 36 4 Shane Warne A SA Port Elizabeth 22/02/94
9.2 0 40 4 Shane Warne A SA Faisalabad 18/10/94
10 0 43 4 Narendra Hirwani I NZ Sharjah 27/03/88
10 0 46 4 Narendra Hirwani I NZ Sharjah 01/04/88
10 0 50 4 Anil Kumble I WI Sharjah 19/10/91