5 bowlers with incredible stats you've probably never heard of

#2. Bapu Nadkarni- Economy rate of 1.67 in 41 Tests

In the nets, he would stand at the bowling mark, focusing his eyes on the coin he would have placed earlier at the good length region and then for an eternity would bowl in the same spot.

That was how Bapu Nadkarni practiced spin bowling and the staggering results of this incredible practice were evident in his statistics. In 41 Tests, he claimed 88 wickets but conceded only 1.67 runs per over.

He was the ideal bowler for stopping the run-flow as he offered width rarely and had immense patience and control. He once delivered 21 consecutive maidens in a Test against England at Madras in 1964 and has also recorded figures of 32-24-23-0 and 34-24-24-1 in Tests.

His controlled bowling rarely rewarded him with wickets, but it created several opportunities of wickets for the other bowlers. His strike rate of 104.1 speaks volume about his inability to produce wicket-taking deliveries but that cannot lessen the value of Nadkarni's spin bowling.