Shahid Afridi took his 200th wicket in One Day Internationals (ODIs) today. He is now World’s 27th and Pakistan’s 6th bowler to achieve this milestone.
The top 10 list of Pakistani wicket takers in ODIs is below. The ranking in parenthesis is their World Ranking in terms of highest career wickets.
- Wasim Akram (World #1) 502 wickets at 23.52 runs/wicket
- Waqar Younis (World #3) 416 wickets at 23.84 runs/wicket
- Saqlain Mushtaq (World #10) 288 wickets at 21.78 runs/wicket
- Abdul Razzak (World #16) 245 wickets at 31.04 runs/wicket
- Shoaib Akhtar (World #23) 208 wickets at 23.33 runs/wicket
- Shahid Afridi (World #27) 201 wickets at 35.38 runs/wicket
- Imran Khan (World #33) 182 wickets at 26.61 runs/wicket
- Aaqib Javed (World #34) 182 wickets at 31.43 runs/wicket
- Mushtaq Ahmed (World #37) 161 wickets at 33.29 runs/wicket
- Abdul Qadir (World # greater than 50) 132 wickets at 26.16 runs/wicket























































As of today, Afridi’s ODI career wicket tally is 272. Same as Alan Donald of South Africa.
afridi is the king of cricket.