Australian cricketer Mitchell Starc breaks Saqlain Mushtaq’s ODI world record

Mitchell Starc who has shown his best form in the three-match ODI series has achieved a new record for himself. He scalped 200 wickets in 5240 balls leaving Pakistani legend Saqlain Mushtaq behind who hit the benchmark in 5457 balls. Brett lee is on the third list, who achieved the feat in 5640 deliveries. It took 5883 balls for Waqar Younis and 6012 for Shoaib Akhtar to achieve the feat.

Australian cricketer Mitchell Starc breaks Saqlain Mushtaq’s ODI world record

Though Australia lost the game on their home soil against Zimbabwe in the third ODI at Townsville on Saturday. 32-year-old Michael Starc made a mark for himself by creating this huge record. He dismissed Ryan Burl in the last ball of the 37th over to create this record.

His form is being appreciated by everyone as he scalped four wickets to his name in the first two ODIs and reached the milestone in 102 matches and 5240 balls.

Earlier in 2016, Starc was the quickest bowler to scalp 100 ODI wickets in 52 matches though Afghanistani spinner Rashid broke his record in 2018.

He picked 5 wickets of 200 and had an 11-wicket ODI campaign against West Indies he July 2021, he’s ready to smash Sri Lanka in June this year.

He had made his debut in ODI in 2010 and played 11 ODIs before he played his first T20I which took place before he went regular with the Test arena. He was also a very significant part of Australia’s 2015 home World Cup where he gave his best performance. His six-wicket haul at Eden park and dismissal of Brendon McCullum in the opening over in the finale at MCG will be remembered by the cricket fanatics.

he even broke McGrath’s record for the most wickets at the World Cup where he took 27 wickets that helped the Aussies get into the semi-finals.

“It’s obviously where I first got a chance in the Australian group and then probably grew from there with a few more responsibilities over the first period of my white ball career, bowling at the death and then obviously the World Cups in recent times. So it was probably my most consistent format for a long time.

“It was probably the first format that I felt like I belonged. It took me a lot longer in Test cricket to feel comfortable or like I belonged in Test cricket with the stop-start (nature of his early Test career).”– he said

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