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Warne's wicket ways

By Rajneesh Gupta
August 17, 2005

Australia leg spinner Shane Warne became the first man to take 600 wickets in Tests when he dismissed England opener Marcus Trescothick on the opening day of the third Test at Old Trafford, Manchester, on Thursday.

Playing his 12th Test, Warne dismissed Trescothick for 63, caught behind by Adam Gilchrist off an attempted sweep, to reach the milestone.

A look at the bowler's statistics:

Performance against each country:
Opponent Tests Balls Mdns Runs Wkts Best 5WI 10WM Ave SR RPO
England 29 8407 428 3360 149 8-71 8 3 22.55 56.42 2.39
India 14 3925 139 2029 43 6-125 1 0 47.19 91.28 3.10
New Zealand 20 5770 252 2511 103 6-31 3 0 24.38 56.02 2.61
Pakistan 15 4051 192 1816 90 7-23 6 2 20.18 45.01 2.69
South Africa 18 6130 303 2257 101 7-56 6 2 22.35 60.69 2.21
Sri Lanka 13 3167 132 1507 59 5-43 5 2 25.54 53.68 2.86
West Indies 16 3284 132 1581 49 7-52 1 0 32.27 67.02 2.89
Zimbabwe 1 319 13 137 6 3-68 0 0 22.83 53.17 2.58
Total 126 35053 1591 15198 600 8-71 30 9 25.33 58.42 2.60

Mode of dismissals:

Opponent Tests Wkts B CW CF C&B LBW St
England 29 149 31 25 53 4 28 8
India 14 43 7 5 22 2 6 1
New Zealand 20 103 21 8 48 2 18 6
Pakistan 15 90 9 6 39 1 29 6
South Africa 18 101 19 7 44 6 22 3
Sri Lanka 13 59 6 8 31 3 7 4
West Indies 16 49 6 4 28 2 7 2
Zimbabwe 1 6 0 1 3 0 2 0
TOTAL 126 600 99 64 268 20 119 30


Note: B= Bowled, CW= Caught by wicketkeeper, CF = Caught in the field,                                                          C&B = Caught & Bowled, St=Stumped

Home & Away record:

Record Tests Wkts
Home 57 260
Away 69 340

Batting styles of victims:

Wkts Right Left Right% Left%
600 465 135 77.50 22.50

Batting positions of victims:

Type Wkts %
Openers 84 14.00
# 3 52 8.67
# 4 55 9.17
# 5 67 11.17
# 6 62 10.33
# 7 56 9.33
# 8 65 10.83
# 9 61 10.17
# 10 64 10.67
# 11 34 5.67
TOTAL 600

Runs scored by victims:

0s 1-9 10-19 20-49 50-89 90-99 100-149 150-199 200+
83 173 97 149 81 1 13 1 2

Warne's bunnies:

Alec Stewart (Eng) 14 times
Nasser Hussain (Eng) 11 times
Mike Atherton (Eng) 10 times
Graham Thorpe (Eng) 9 times
Hansie Cronje (Eng) 8 times
Dave Richardson (SA) 8 times
Andrew Caddick (Eng) 8 times
Craig McMillan (NZ) 8 times

Wicket landmarks:

Wkt Victim How Out Vs Venue Season Test No.
1st R Shastri Caught Ind Sydney 1991-92 1st
50th N Hussain Caught Eng Nottingham 1993 14th
100th B McMillan LBW SA Adelaide 1993-94 23rd
150th A Stewart Caught Eng Melbourne 1994-95 31st
200th C Vaas Caught SL Perth 1995-96 42nd
250th A Stewart Bowled Eng Manchester 1997 55th
300th J Kallis Bowled SA Sydney 1997-98 63rd
350th H Kanitkar LBW Ind Melbourne 1999-00 80th
400th A Stewart Caught Eng The Oval 2001 91st
450th A Prince Caught SA Durban 2001-02 101st
500th H Tillakaratne Caught SL Galle 2003-04 108th
550th J Franklin LBW NZ Adelaide 2004-05 117th
600th M Trescothick Caught Eng Manchester 2005 126th

Performance after every 10 Tests:

After Wkts Wkts in last 10 Tests
10 Tests 25 25
20 Tests 83 58
30 Tests 145 62
40 Tests 187 42
50 Tests 235 48
60 Tests 277 42
70 Tests 316 39
80 Tests 351 35
90 Tests 395 44
100 Tests 444 49
110 Tests 517 73
120 Tests 566 49

Performance in each calendar year:

Year Tests Wkts
1992 5 12
1993 16 72
1994 10 70
1995 12 52
1996 4 15
1997 15 68
1998 5 24
1999 13 38
2000 4 15
2001 13 58
2002 10 67
2004 12 70
2005 7 39
TOTAL 126 600

Rajneesh Gupta

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