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Quiz! Name every bowler with 40 or more ODI wickets in a single calendar year

ODI wickets
by Wisden Staff 10 minute play

In this quiz, you have to name every bowler who has taken 40 or more wickets in a single calendar year. Can you?

A whopping 69 – that’s the record ODI wickets tally in a year, achieved by a Pakistan bowler back in 1997. That was after he’d accounted for 65 dismissals the previous year.

Overall, there have been 70 instances when bowlers have taken 40 or more wickets in a year, with Pakistan bowlers accounting for 18 of those instances followed by Australia’s 13. One bowler has remarkably done that on five different occasions.

Your challenge is to name them all within 10 minutes. Can you?


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