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Agarkar sets a new record

Rajneesh Gupta | December 26, 2004 18:28 IST

The wicket of Bangladesh opener Nafis Iqbal in the second one-day international at Dhaka on Sunday gave Ajit Agarkar a world record.

This was Agarkar's 200th wicket in the shorter version of the game. Having already aggregated 1,049 runs before this match, Agarkar joined the exclusive band of cricketers with the all-round double of 1,000 runs and 200 wickets.

Agarkar was playing his 133rd match and he is now the quickest in terms of least number of matches taken to complete this all-round double. The previous record was held by South African Shaun Pollock, who accomplished this feat in his 138th match.

Kapil Dev, the only other Indian in this list, was the first player to do so. Pakistan's Wasim Akram remains the youngest at 26 years, 257 days, followed by Agarkar at 27 years, 22 days.

The accompanying table gives details of all-rounders with 1,000 runs and 200 wickets in ODIs:

MtsAll-rounderForReached on
133Ajit AgarkarIndv Bangladesh,Dhaka,26-12-2004
138Shaun PollockSAv India, Centurion,10-10-2001
143Wasim AkramPakv South Africa, East London,15-02-1993
162Heath StreakZimv England,Nottingham,26-06-2003
164Chaminda VaasSLv New Zealand, Colombo SSC,31-07-2001
166Kapil DevIndv West Indies, Sharjah,22-10-1991
191Shane WarneAusv England,Melbourne,15-12-2002
235Sanath JayasuriyaSLv Pakistan,Sharjah,20-04-2001
244Chris HarrisNZv West Indies, Lord's,10-07-2004

Agarkar also became the quickest among Indians to take 200 wickets. Agarkar accomplished the feat in only 133 matches -- 14 lesser than Anil Kumble and Javagal Srinath, who previously held the record for India. In all ODIs, Agarkar is joint fifth fastest with Australia's Glenn McGrath and after Pakistan's Saqlain Mushtaq (104), South Africa's Allan Donald (117), Pakistan's Waqar Younis (118) and Australia's Shane Warne (125).

Indian bowlers with 200 ODI wickets:

BowlerMtsBallsRunsWktsAveBestSRRpO5WMts for 200 wkts
Anil Kumble25913817985432130.706/1243.044.282147
J Srinath22911935884731528.095/2337.894.453147
Kapil Dev22511202694525327.455/4344.283.721166
Ajit Agarkar1336607562120127.966/4232.875.111133


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