Shaun Pollock : cricket career, records, stats

Shaun Pollock today played his last international cricket match for South Africa at his home town Durban against West Indies. Shaun Pollock was the one to hit winning stroke in this match. One of the greatest record for Shaun Pollock would be his bowling avarage i.e. lower than 4 runs per over. below are the sats

Most economical bowlers in ODIs (at least 150 ODI wickets) Player Matches Runs conceded Wickets Average Economy-rate
Richard Hadlee 115 3407 158 21.56 3.30
Curtly Ambrose 176 5429 225 24.12 3.48
Malcolm Marshall 136 4233 157 26.96 3.53
Shaun Pollock 302 9598 392 24.48 3.67
Kapil Dev 225 6945 253 27.45 3.71

3509 runs and 392 wickets from 302 ODIs, making him only the second player after Wasim Akram to complete the double of 3500 runs and 350 wickets in the limited-over version.

Player Matches Runs Average Wickets Average
Sanath Jayasuriya 403 12207 32.63 307 36.37
Wasim Akram 356 3717 16.52 502 23.52
Shaun Pollock 302 3509 24.48 392 26.38
Kapil Dev 225 3783 23.79 253 27.45

ICC Cricket awards : Cricinfo Cricketer of the year 2007

Cricinfo announced ICC cricketer awards for the year 2007. Three Indian Cricketers one from Austrialia and two Sri Lankan crickters were among the awardees for Cricinfo ICC cricketer of the year award.

Here is the list of winners for 2007:

Test cricket batting - Kumar Sangakkara (SL): 192, Australia v Sri Lanka, 2nd Test, Hobart
Test cricket bowling - Zaheer Khan (Ind): 5 for 75, England v India, 2nd Test, Trent Bridge
ODI Cricket batting - Adam Gilchrist (Aus): 149, Australia v Sri Lanka, World Cup final, Barbados
ODI Cricket bowling - Lasith Malinga (SL): 4 for 54, Sri Lanka v South Africa, World Cup, Guyana
Twenty20 Crickeet batting - Yuvraj Singh (Ind): 70, India v Australia, World Twenty20 semi-final, Durban
Twenty20 cricket bowling - RP Singh (Ind): 4 for 13, India v South Africa, World Twenty20, Durban