Comparison of cricket bowlers

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This is a comparison of bowlers featuring a number of past cricket bowlers in the form of a table containing general information and bowling statistics.

Note: Players who have retired from one form of the game, but not in the other are considered as past in that section.

1 Test cricket
- 1.1 Past bowlers
- 1.2 Notes
2 One Day International cricket
- 2.1 Past bowlers
3 Sources

[edit] Test cricket

[edit] Past bowlers

This table is ordered firstly in alphabetical order by teams cricket code (AUS, WI...) then by the bowling partnerships or in chronological order of the respective countries. The statistics in the table refer to the bowling statistic.

Bowler	Richie Benaud	Dennis Lillee	Jim Laker	Ian Botham	Kapil Dev	Javagal Srinath	Richard Hadlee	Imran Khan	Wasim Akram	Waqar Younis	Allan Donald	Gary Sobers	Joel Garner	Courtney Walsh	Curtly Ambrose
Team	AUS Australia	AUS Australia	ENG England	ENG England	IND India	IND India	NZ New Zealand	PAK Pakistan	PAK Pakistan	PAK Pakistan	RSA South Africa	WI West Indies	WI West Indies	WI West Indies	WI West Indies
Birth year	1930	1949	1922	1955	1959	1969	1951	1952	1966	1971	1966	1936	1952	1962	1963
Playing years	1951-1964	1970s and 1980s	1950s	1976-1992	1970s to 1990s	1990s	1970s and1980s	1970s to 1994	1984-2003	1990s to 2003	1990s to 2003	1950 to 1970s	1970s and 1980s	1980s and 1990s	1980s and 1990s
Bowling type	Spin	Fast	Spin	Fast Medium	Fast Medium	Fast Medium	Fast	Fast	Fast	Fast	Fast	Medium and spin¹	Fast	Fast	Fast
Bowling category	Leg spin	Express	Off spin	Gentle Medium	Swing	Seem	Swing	Swing	Swing	Swing	Express	Left-arm and Chinaman²	Frightening	Accurate	Accurate
Right or Left arm	Right	Right	Right	Right	Right	Right	Right	Right	Left	Right	Right	Left	Right	Right	Right
Statistics
Wickets (W)	292	355	193	383	434	236	431	362	414	373	330	235	259	519	405
Bowling Average (Ave)	27.03	23.92	21.24	28.40	29.64	30.49	22.29	22.81	23.62	23.56	22.25	34.03	20.97	24.4	20.9
Strike Rate (SR)	77.0	52.0	62.3	56.9	63.92	64.00	50.85	53.75	54.6	43.4	47.02	91.9	50.84	57.8	54.5
Economy Rate (Econ)	2.10	2.75	2.04	2.99	2.78	2.86	2.63	2.55	2.59	3.25	2.83	2.22	2.47	2.53	2.30
Matches (M)	63	70	46	102	131	67	86	88	104	87	72	93	58	132	98
Balls (B)	19108	18467	12027	21815	27740	15104	21918	19458	22627	16224	15519	21599	13169	30019	22103
Maiden overs (M)	805	652	674	788	1060	599	?	727	871	516	?	?	?	1144	1001
Runs conceded (R)	6704	8493	4101	10878	12867	7196	9611	8258	9779	8788	7344	7999	5433	12688	8501
Best bowling (BB)	7-72	7-83	10-53	8-34	9-83	8-86	9-52	8-58	7-119	7-76	8-71	6-73	9-108	7-37	8-45
5 wickets (5w)	16	23	9	27	23	10	36	23	25	22	20	6	7	22	22
10 wickets (10w)	1	7	3	4	2	1	9	6	5	5	3	0	0	3	3
Bowler	Richie Benaud	Dennis Lillee	Jim Laker	Ian Botham	Kapil Dev	Javagal Srinath	Richard Hadlee	Imran Khan	Wasim Akram	Waqar Younis	Allan Donald	Gary Sobers	Joel Garner	Courtney Walsh	Curtly Ambrose

[edit] Notes

¹ Gary Sobers could bowl both medium pace and spin.
² Sobers also employed both finger spin (left-arm orthodox) and wrist spin (left-arm unorthodox, or "Chinaman")..

[edit] One Day International cricket

[edit] Past bowlers

Bowler	Dennis Lillee	Shane Warne	Ian Botham	Kapil Dev	Javagal Srinath	Richard Hadlee	Imran Khan	Wasim Akram	Waqar Younis	Allan Donald	Gary Sobers	Joel Garner	Courtney Walsh	Curtly Ambrose
Team	AUS Australia	AUS Australia	ENG England	IND India	IND India	NZ New Zealand	PAK Pakistan	PAK Pakistan	PAK Pakistan	RSA South Africa	WI West Indies	WI West Indies	WI West Indies	WI West Indies
Birth year	1949	1969	1955	1959	1969	1951	1952	1966	1971	1966	1936	1952	1962	1963
Playing years	?	1992-2003	?	?	?	?	1974-1992	1984-2003	1989-2003	?	?	1970s and 1980s	1980s and 1990s	1980s and 1990s
Bowling type	Fast	Spin	Fast Medium	Fast Medium	Fast Medium	Fast	Fast	Fast	Fast	Fast	Medium and spin	Fast	Fast	Fast
Bowling category	?	Leg spin	?	?	?	?	Swing	Swing	Swing	?	?	?	?	Seam
Right or left arm	Right	Right	Right	Right	Right	?	Right	Left	Right	Right	?	?	?	Right
Statistics
Wickets (W)	103	291	145	253	179	158	182	502	416	?	?	?	?	?
Bowling Average (Ave)	20.83	25	28.54	27.45	27.90	21.56	26.62	23.52	23.84	?	?	?	?	?
Strike Rate (SR)	34.88	?	43.25	44.28	39.06	39.13	40.99	36.22	30.52	?	?	?	?	?
Economy Rate (Econ)	3.58	?	3.96	3.72	4.29	3.31	3.90	3.89	4.68	?	?	?	?	?
Matches (M)	63	?	116	225	135	115	175	356	262	?	?	?	205	?
Overs (O)	598.5	?	1045.1	1867.0	1165.1	1030.2	1243.3	3031.0	2116.2	?	?	?	1803.4	?
Balls (B)	3983	?	6271	11202	6991	6182	7461	18186	12698	?	?	?	?	?
Maiden overs (M)	?	?	?	?	?	?	124	236	143	?	?	?	185	?
Runs conceded (R)	2145	?	4139	6945	4994	3407	4845	11812	9919	?	?	?	6918	?
Best bowling (BB)	5-34	?	4-31	5-43	5-23	5-25	6-14	5-15	7-36	?	?	?	5-1	?
4 wickets (4w)	5	?	3	3	2	1	3	23	14	?	?	?	6	?
5 wickets (5w)	1	?	-	1	3	5	1	6	13	?	?	?	1	?
Bowler	Dennis Lillee	Shane Warne	Ian Botham	Kapil Dev	Javagal Srinath	Richard Hadlee	Imran Khan	Wasim Akram	Waqar Younis	Allan Donald	Gary Sobers	Joel Garner	Courtney Walsh	Curtly Ambrose