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Zaheer on top with maximum ODI wickets in 2007

By IANS

New Delhi : Indian pacer Zaheer Khan emerged the highest wicket taker while his team mate Sachin Tendulkar was the second highest run getter in the one-dayers in the 2007 calendar year.

Zaheer picked up 40 wickets from 33 ODIs he played in the year while Tendulkar scored 1425 runs from the same number of matches in the year.

Among other Indians, Yuvraj Singh was fourth with 1287 runs from 36 matches and followed by Sourav Ganguly in the fifth place with 1240 runs from 32 matches. One-day captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni was seventh with 1103 runs from 37 matches.

The lists of top run getters and wicket takers are as follows:

Batsmen M I No Runs HS Avg 100s 50s SR

Matthew Hayden 32 30 3 1601 181* 59.29 5 6 89.19
Sachin Tendulkar 33 32 2 1425 100* 47.50 1 13 85.58
Ricky Ponting 27 24 6 1424 134* 79.11 5 8 91.69
Yuvraj Singh 36 33 5 1287 121 45.96 1 9 89.49
Sourav Ganguly 32 30 2 1240 98 44.28 – 12 73.02
A.B. de Villiers 33 32 5 1209 146 44.77 3 8 92.29
M.S. Dhoni 37 33 8 1103 139* 44.12 1 7 89.60
Mahela Jayawardene 32 31 2 1089 115* 37.55 2 8 82.37
Ian Bell 33 33 1 1080 126* 33.75 1 6 72.48
Graeme Smith 26 25 2 1079 96 46.91 – 12 92.14
Paul Collingwood 33 32 6 1064 120* 40.92 2 5 77.43
Mohammad Yousuf 24 24 4 1042 117 52.10 2 9 77.70

Bowlers M Overs Runs Wkts Avg Best E.R S.R 5W

Zaheer Khan 33 283.2 1396 40 34.90 5/42 4.92 42.5 1
Glenn McGrath 20 164.3 738 39 18.92 3/14 4.48 25.3 –
James Anderson 28 245.5 1155 39 29.61 4/23 4.69 37.8 –
Dilhara Fernando 23 174.0 795 38 20.92 6/27 4.56 27.4 1
Brad Hogg 27 195.5 908 38 23.89 4/27 4.63 30.9 –
Daren Powell 23 203.0 945 38 24.86 4/27 4.65 32.0 –
Andrew Flintoff 22 185.4 798 36 22.16 5/56 4.29 30.9 1
Nathan Bracken 28 224.0 1012 36 28.11 4/19 4.51 37.3 –
Daniel Vettori 28 245.0 1038 36 28.83 4/23 4.23 40.8 –
Farveez Maharoof 22 157.5 720 35 20.57 4/23 4.56 27.0 –