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Gavin Larsen achieves a dubious milestone

Atul Kahate
18 January 1999




New Zealand's Gavin Larsen has achieved a dubious milestone by bowling most balls to take 100 wickets in Limited Overs International cricket. Thus, he overtook the previous 'record' held by the West Indian off spinner Roger Harper. Larsen took his 100th wicket in the third match of the present New Zealand-India series at Wellington.

Larsen took approximately 5504 balls to take his 100 wickets, Harper had bowled 5175 for his 100. Just for the record, the fewest number of deliveries bowled by any bowler to complete 100 wickets is 2797 - by Saqlain Mushtaq of Pakistan. His team mate Waqar Younis follows him closely with 2858. [For an explanation, see Note(3) below.]

Also interesting it would be to know that at 36 years and 109 days, Larsen is the second oldest to take 100 wickets, Vivian Richards topping the list (37 years and 2 days).

Most balls bowled to take 100 wickets

No  Player            Team Mts Balls  Milestone reached      
1 GR Larsen         NZ   104  5504  Ind Wellington     14 Jan 1999
2 RA Harper         WI   105  5175  SL  Port-of-Spain  13 Apr 1996
3 IVA Richards      WI   162  4861  Ind Port-of-Spain   9 Mar 1989
4 PAJ DeFreitas     Eng   87  4861  SA  Manchester     27 Aug 1994
5 RJ Shastri        Ind  100  4694  SL  Sharjah        25 Mar 1988
6 CA Walsh          WI    87  4611  Eng Georgetown      7 Mar 1990
7 Aqib Javed        Pak   93  4584  SA  Karachi        16 Oct 1994
8 CZ Harris         NZ    98  4579  Zim Wellington      6 Feb 1998
9 Mushtaq Ahmed     Pak   91  4563  UAE Gujranwala     24 Feb 1996
10 WKM Benjamin      WI    85  4442  Eng Lord's         28 May 1995
11 ST Jayasuriya     SL   129  4371  Ind Bombay (1)     17 May 1997
12 MD Marshall       WI    81  4263  Aus Melbourne      20 Jan 1987
13 BKV Prasad        Ind   85  4241  Aus Sharjah        24 Apr 1998
14 SR Waugh          Aus  110  4237  WI  Bridgetown     13 Mar 1991
15 CL Hooper         WI   105  4237  Pak Sharjah         1 Nov 1993

Notes:

  1. Bombay(1) denotes Wankhede Stadium, Bombay/Mumbai.

  2. All statistics updated to the end of the third match between New Zealand and India.

  3. Although precise statistics are not available to calculate the number of balls bowled by a bowler at a particular point of time, it does not make a big difference as the figures get approximated only in terms of one match - the one in which the player achieves the milestone. So, the following table gives the number of balls bowled by the bowlers to the end of the match in which they took their 100th wicket, rather than at the point at which they did so.

Contributed by: Atul Kahate (akahate@yahoo.com)



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