da betway： Rangana Herath became the second Sri Lanka bowler – and the 12th from the subcontinent -to take 1000 first-class wickets.
da premier bet： Shiva Jayaraman17-Mar-2017Rangana Herath became the second player from Sri Lanka to take 1000 first-class wickets when he dismissed Mustafizur Rahman in Bangladesh’s first innings in the Colombo Test. Muttiah Muralitharan, with 1374 wickets from 232 Tests, is the only other bowler from Sri Lanka with 1000 first-class wickets.
Bowler Matches Wickets Ave BBI Five-fors Ten-forsMuttiah Muralitharan 232 1374 19.64 9/51 119 34Rangana Herath 253 1001 24.94 9/127 64 12Dinuka Hettiarachchi 222 929 23.36 8/26 64 16Sajeewa Weerakoon 188 802 21.83 7/40 49 12Chaminda Vaas 227 772 24.64 7/28 34 4Herath is the 12th bowler from the subcontinent to take 1000 first-class wickets and the first to the milestone since Danish Kaneria, who had taken his 1000th wicket in 2011-12. Apart from Herath and Kaneria, seven other spinners from the subcontinent have taken at least 1000 first-class wickets. Imran Khan, Sarfraz Nawaz and Wasim Akram – all from Pakistan – are the only fast bowlers. Overall, Pakistan legspinner Intikhab Alam leads the wickets list for the subcontinent bowlers with 1571 from 489 matches. India’s Bishen Bedi is the only other bowler from the subcontinent to take 1500 wickets.
Bowler Mats Wkts BBI Ave Five-fors Ten-forsIntikhab Alam 489 1571 8/54 27.67 85 13Bishan Bedi 370 1560 7/5 21.69 106 20Mushtaq Ahmed 309 1407 9/48 25.67 104 32Srinivas Venkataraghavan 341 1390 9/93 24.14 85 21Muttiah Muralitharan 232 1374 9/51 19.64 119 34Imran Khan 382 1287 8/34 22.32 70 13Anil Kumble 244 1136 10/74 25.83 72 19Bhagwath Chandrasekhar 246 1063 9/72 24.03 75 19Wasim Akram 257 1042 8/30 21.64 70 16Danish Kaneria 206 1024 8/59 26.16 71 12Sarfraz Nawaz 299 1005 9/86 24.62 46 4Rangana Herath 253 1001 9/127 24.94 64 12Herath joins Bedi as the second left-arm orthodox spinner from the subcontinent to collect 1000 first-class victims. Overall, 30 left-arm orthodox spinners have taken 1000 first-class wickets. Wilfred Rhodes leads the list of left-arm orthodox spinners, and also the all-time wicket-takers’ list in first-class cricket, with 4204 victims.Another Sri Lanka bowler, Dinuka Hettiarachchi, is the closest among active players to achieving the milestone. Hettiarachchi has taken 929 wickets at an average of 23.36 from 222 matches. He is followed by another Sri Lankan Sajeewa Weerakoon, who has 802 wickets from 188 matches.
Bowler Mats Wkts BBI Ave Five-fors Ten-forsDinuka Hettiarachchi 222 929 8/26 23.36 64 16Sajeewa Weerakoon 188 802 7/40 21.83 49 12Yasir Arafat 206 787 9/35 24.11 44 5Harbhajan Singh 196 777 8/84 28.85 41 8James Anderson 203 777 7/43 26.45 38 6