Herath completes 1000 first-class wickets
Rangana Herath became the second Sri Lanka bowler - and the 12th from the subcontinent -to take 1000 first-class wickets.
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Bowler | Matches | Wickets | Ave | BBI | Five-fors | Ten-fors |
Muttiah Muralitharan | 232 | 1374 | 19.64 | 9/51 | 119 | 34 |
Rangana Herath | 253 | 1001 | 24.94 | 9/127 | 64 | 12 |
Dinuka Hettiarachchi | 222 | 929 | 23.36 | 8/26 | 64 | 16 |
Sajeewa Weerakoon | 188 | 802 | 21.83 | 7/40 | 49 | 12 |
Chaminda Vaas | 227 | 772 | 24.64 | 7/28 | 34 | 4 |
Bowler | Mats | Wkts | BBI | Ave | Five-fors | Ten-fors |
Intikhab Alam | 489 | 1571 | 8/54 | 27.67 | 85 | 13 |
Bishan Bedi | 370 | 1560 | 7/5 | 21.69 | 106 | 20 |
Mushtaq Ahmed | 309 | 1407 | 9/48 | 25.67 | 104 | 32 |
Srinivas Venkataraghavan | 341 | 1390 | 9/93 | 24.14 | 85 | 21 |
Muttiah Muralitharan | 232 | 1374 | 9/51 | 19.64 | 119 | 34 |
Imran Khan | 382 | 1287 | 8/34 | 22.32 | 70 | 13 |
Anil Kumble | 244 | 1136 | 10/74 | 25.83 | 72 | 19 |
Bhagwath Chandrasekhar | 246 | 1063 | 9/72 | 24.03 | 75 | 19 |
Wasim Akram | 257 | 1042 | 8/30 | 21.64 | 70 | 16 |
Danish Kaneria | 206 | 1024 | 8/59 | 26.16 | 71 | 12 |
Sarfraz Nawaz | 299 | 1005 | 9/86 | 24.62 | 46 | 4 |
Rangana Herath | 253 | 1001 | 9/127 | 24.94 | 64 | 12 |
Bowler | Mats | Wkts | BBI | Ave | Five-fors | Ten-fors |
Dinuka Hettiarachchi | 222 | 929 | 8/26 | 23.36 | 64 | 16 |
Sajeewa Weerakoon | 188 | 802 | 7/40 | 21.83 | 49 | 12 |
Yasir Arafat | 206 | 787 | 9/35 | 24.11 | 44 | 5 |
Harbhajan Singh | 196 | 777 | 8/84 | 28.85 | 41 | 8 |
James Anderson | 203 | 777 | 7/43 | 26.45 | 38 | 6 |
Shiva Jayaraman is a senior stats analyst at ESPNcricinfo.com. @shiva_cricinfo