[Records] Hafeez becomes 18th Pakistani bowler to reach 100 ODI wickets

Pakistan’s Mohammad Hafeez has reached his 100 career wickets in the second ODI against Ireland played at Clontarf, Dublin today. Hafeez reached the milestone, dismissing the debutant James Shannon in his last over and overall 44^th over of the Ireland’s innings.

[caption id="attachment_1181" align="alignright" width="224"] Before Mohammad Hafeez, 17 Pakistani bowlers have achieved the milestone (Photo: AFP)[/caption]

Hafeez is Pakistan’s 18^th bowler to achieve 100 or more ODI wickets. Wasim Akram has most number of wickets under his belt for Pakistan. He took 502 wickets in 356 matches. Waqar Younis is trails behind him with 416 wickets.

The right-arm off-spinner has achieved the record in 118 matches at an average of around 33 and an economy rate of more than four. His best figures were three wicket for 17 runs which he achieved in September 2003 in Multan against Bangladesh. Hafeez has improved a lot throughout his career and reached to the top in world rankings. And because of an equal brilliance with the bat, he is still ranked number one all-rounder of the world. He is at fourth position in world rankings for bowlers.

We are providing readers with a full list of those Pakistani bowlers who have taken 100 or more wickets in their careers.

Pakistani bowlers taking most wickets

Bowler	Matches	Wickets	Best	Average
Wasim Akram	356	502	5/15	23.52
Waqar Younis	262	416	7/36	23.84
Shahid Afridi	349	346	6/38	34.32
Saqlain Mushtaq	169	288	5/20	21.78
Abdur Razzaq	261	268	6/35	31.53
Shoaib Akhtar	158	241	6/16	24.70
Aqib Javed	163	182	7/37	31.43
Imran Khan	175	182	6/14	26.61
Mushtaq Ahmed	144	161	5/36	33.29
Umar Gul	116	161	6/42	28.59
Shoaib Malik	213	140	4/19	36.43
Abdul Qadir	104	132	5/44	26.16
Saeed Ajmal	81	128	5/24	22.91
Azhar Mahmood	143	123	6/18	39.13
Mohammad Sami	85	121	5/10	28.52
Mudassar Nazar	122	111	5/28	30.91
Rana Naveed-ul-Hassan	74	110	6/27	29.28
Mohammad Hafeez	118	100	3/17	32.98