Shoaib Akhtar (Pakistan)

Full Name  Akhtar, Shoaib 
Date of birth:  13/08/1975
Country  Pakistan
Role  Bowler
Batting style  Right-hand
Bowling style  Right arm fast

Career summary
- Test Debut v West Indies at Rawalpindi - November 1997

- ODI Debut v India at Karachi - February 2006

- The world's fastest bowlers fastest recorded delivery was clocked at 161.4 km/h making it the quickest ever recorded in modern day cricket.

- From 2002-2004 he produced match winning bowling efforts against New Zealand (twice) and South Africa.

- When he is fit, he is the most destructive fast bowler in the world with a strike rate second to none.

- England discovered to their cost that he has now developed a devastating slower ball, which accounted for a number of wickets in the recent Test series in Pakistan.

Test Matches
Batting Career Span:  1997 - 2007
Matches:  46
Innings:  67
Not outs:  13
Runs:  544
Highest Score:  47
Average:  10
50s:  0
100s:  0
Ducks:  11
Pairs:  1
Catches:  12
Stumping:  0
Bowling Innings bowled:  118
Overs:  1356.7
Maidens:  236
Runs conceded:  4574
Wickets:  178
5 Wicket Innings:  12
10 Wicket matches:  0
Average:  25.7 
Economy Rate:  3.37 
Best bowling in Innings:  6/11

ODI Matches
Batting Career Span:  1998 - 2009
Innings:  69
Not outs:  32
Runs:  371
Highest Score:  43
Strike-rate:  75.1 
Average:  10
50s:  0
100s:  0
Ducks:  8
Catches:  17
Stumping:  0
Bowling Innings bowled:  141
Overs:  1119
Maidens:  90
Runs conceded:  5235
Wickets:  220
4 Wicket Innings:  4
Average:  23.8 
Economy Rate:  4.68 
Best bowling in Innings:  6/16

Twenty20 Matches