Mohammad Rafique is the 8th

[fwullah]

Well Rafique is actually joined 7th with Shabbir Ahmed to have taken most wickets in the calendar year 2003, but hey look at the other bowlers:- Ntini, MacGill and Brett Lee has higher bowling average than Rafique has (and lower batting average means that its better).

Name Mat O M R W Ave Best 5 10 SR Econ Team

M Ntini 12 469 106 1566 59 26.54 5-66 4 1 47.6 3.33 RSA
SCG MacGill 11 524.4 107 1688 57 29.61 5-56 4 1 55.2 3.21 AUS
M Muralitharan 7 470.1 182 849 48 17.68 7-46 3 1 58.7 1.80 SL
SM Pollock 11 424.2 138 944 45 20.97 6-39 2 - 56.5 2.22 RSA
JN Gillespie 10 391.3 118 923 41 22.51 5-39 1 - 57.2 2.35 AUS
B Lee 10 378.2 84 1331 38 35.02 4-63 - - 59.7 3.51 AUS
Shabbir Ahmed 6 286.5 70 719 33 21.78 5-48 2 - 52.1 2.50 PAK
Mohammad Rafique 6 314.5 77 792 33 24.00 6-77 3 - 57.2 2.51 BDESH
AJ Bichel 9 312.5 68 1064 32 33.25 4-63 - - 58.6 3.40 AUS
SJ Harmison 8 264 64 752 31 24.25 5-35 1 - 51.0 2.84 ENG
Shoaib Akhtar 4 144.5 29 371 30 12.36 6-30 3 2 28.9 2.56 PAK
AF Giles 11 412.3 82 1220 28 43.57 5-116 1 - 88.3 2.95 ENG
RW Price 6 289 58 916 27 33.92 6-73 3 1 64.2 3.16 ZIM
CD Collymore 5 181 38 585 26 22.50 7-57 2 - 41.7 3.23 WI
PR Adams 7 221.5 40 759 26 29.19 7-128 3 1 51.1 3.42 RSA
JM Anderson 8 249.5 58 906 26 34.84 5-73 2 - 57.6 3.62 ENG
WPUJC Vaas 7 242.5 59 655 23 28.47 4-77 - - 63.3 2.69 SL
Danish Kaneria 6 306.4 73 781 23 33.95 5-46 1 - 80.0 2.54 PAK
A Kumble 4 257.3 53 765 21 36.42 6-176 2 - 73.5 2.97 IND
VC Drakes 8 303.1 39 974 21 46.38 5-93 1 - 86.6 3.21 WI
Umar Gul 4 157 28 518 19 27.26 4-58 - - 49.5 3.29 PAK
RJ Kirtley 4 179.5 50 561 19 29.52 6-34 1 - 56.7 3.11 ENG

Source: Cricinfo_Most Test Wickets

[Arnab]

Look at Shoaib's Avg.

[Hasib]

The real amazing thing is that the ratio of wickets per match compared to Nintini is better... in fact higher than most above him. He played 6 matches... Nintini played 12. If Nintini played 6, he would have had less then 30

[Hasib]

In fact I did some calculations and if the top 8 played 12 tests like Nintini... the top would be Murali... Rafique would share 2nd... yes 2nd... with Shabbir Ahmad... Maybe even with MacGill...
Murali 6 wickets per match
Rafique and Ahmad 5.5
Macgill 5.18

[Edited on 31-12-2003 by Hasib]