by 'leg-before-wicket' dismissals in their Test careers. Leaving the
wisecracks about umpiring aside, it suggests that the batsmen have
difficulty in putting their bats to their straight deliveries. Here is
a list to put their achievements 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)
57.18 100 111 369 Waqar Younis (Pak)
57.14 102 42 252 JB Statham (Eng)
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:
24.46 15 19 139 Harbhajan Singh (Ind)
24.39 26 4 123 EJ Chatfield (NZ)
23.48 23 8 132 AA Mallett (Aus)
22.22 19 9 126 B Yardley (Aus)
21.49 17 9 121 PCR Tufnell (Eng)
20.18 14 9 114 CL Hooper (WI)
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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