#7 Wasim Akram (Pakistan)
Unequivocally, Wasim Akram, The Sultan of Swing, has been the best swing bowler in the history of cricket. With the acute skill of dancing the ball in the air, Wasim Akram often created havoc among the opposition batsmen with the stature of Sachin, Dravid, Ponting, Hayden.
Akram featured in 386 ODI matches for Pakistan and confiscated a mammoth of 502 wickets at an average of 23.53 and an economy of 3.9 with the best bowling figures being 5 for 15.
In addition to that, he also contributed a bit in the batting as well. In his ODI career, he scored 3717 runs at an average of 16.52 and a strike-rate of 88.33 which also include six fifties with the highest score being 86.
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