Top 10 leading wicket-takers in ODI cricket since 2007

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Top 10 leading wicket-takers in ODI cricket since 2007: These days the stability between the bat and ball has coasted a lot in favor of batsmen. You call it big bats or small-sized boundaries or whatever but definitely there is no refuting to the fact that these days everything is apparently in favor of the batters. Even the miss hits and edges carry over the ropes. Nowadays, totals of 400 have become the new 300 while totals of 300 have become a doddle for the batting sides. In the World Cup 2015, we saw that on 26 occasions teams reached the 300 run dent while on 3 times they crossed the mark of 400 runs which once was careful as an outright unmanageable thing.

Sri Lanka’s T20 cricket captain Lasith Malinga gestures during a practice session at the R. Premadasa International Cricket Stadium in Colombo 

 After the World Cup 2015, the International Cricket Council (ICC) was speedy to take helpful steps to restore the balance in the game and as a result changed quite a few rules in ODI cricket. But many people direct the very fact that the quality of bowling has also observed a new low after retirement of bowling stalwarts.

It is distinguished that between 2000 and 2007 as many as 9 bowlers acquired 200 wickets with 4 bowlers scalping in excess of 250 wickets. While between 2007 and 2015 there have been only 3 bowlers who have seized 200 plus wickets. But even since 2007, there have been bowlers who have tasted sensible success and have hence proved that in spite of any adversity quality bowling can bear anything.

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Since 2007, Slinga Malinga has been the leading wicket-taker in ODI’s with 253 wickets. Malinga has certainly emerged as the greatest death bowler of the world with hell lot of skills in his armor like toe-crushing Yorkers, deceptive bouncers and slower deliveries. The second spot is full by the Aussie pacer Mitchell Johnson who has grabbed 225 scalps in the same retro and has headed the Aussie pace department.

Then comes the number of Boom-Boom Afridi who might not have been able to emblaze the 22 yards with the bat but has been superb with white cherry in hand. He has taken 202 wickets. English fluctuation impression James Anderson conquers the 4th spot with 191 wickets and has played pivotal role in providing breakthroughs upfront. The 5th and 6th position are occupied by Asian spinners Shakib- Al-Hasan and Saeed Ajmal. Shakib has been Bangladeshi side’s premiere all-rounder and has not left any stone unturned in the last few years for his side.

While Saeed Ajmal who recently got his action remodeled after his previous action was found to be illegal by the ICC holds average of 22.72 per wicket since 2007 which is the best in the list. Ajmal has won his side many a matches alone and has grabbed 184 scalps.. Nuwan Kulasekara and Stuart Broad are stationed at 7th and 8th position with 173 and 172 wickets respectively. While Kulasekara has been a perfect foil for Malinga, Broad has similarly complemented Anderson very well.

The last two spots are occupied by the South African duo of Morne Morkel and Dale Steyn. They have taken 169 and 162 wickets respectively.

Player	Span	Mat	Inns	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Ave	Econ	SR
SL Malinga (SL)	2007-2015	165	159	1321	76	7067	253	27.93	5.34	31.3
MG Johnson (Aus)	2007-2015	143	140	1178.1	73	5677	225	25.23	4.81	31.4
Shahid Afridi (Pak)	2007-2015	164	161	1425.3	30	6606	202	32.7	4.63	42.3
JM Anderson (Eng)	2007-2015	141	140	1162.4	82	5746	191	30.08	4.94	36.5
Shakib Al Hasan (Ban)	2007-2015	142	141	1212.4	65	5325	186	28.62	4.39	39.1
Saeed Ajmal (Pak)	2008-2015	113	112	1000	50	4182	184	22.72	4.18	32.6
KMDN Kulasekara (SL)	2007-2015	153	151	1175.5	95	5746	173	33.21	4.88	40.7
SCJ Broad (Eng)	2007-2015	114	114	966.3	53	5090	172	29.59	5.26	33.7
M Morkel (Afr/SA)	2007-2015	100	98	830.4	42	4089	169	24.19	4.92	29.4
DW Steyn (SA)	2007-2015	103	102	868.4	66	4140	162	25.55	4.76	32.1