4 mind-boggling cricket facts you probably did not know

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Sanath Jayasuriya has more ODI wickets to his name than Shane Warne

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Sanath Jayasuriya

Arguably, the best spinner to have graced the cricket field, Shane Warne's stories of cricket are well known and every cricketer is aware of the dominance he had over the game. But this is not it. While Shane Warne was a deathly combination of both spin and aggression, he was very shy of wickets as compared to Sri Lankan legend, Sanath Jayasuriya, in ODIs.

Sanath Jayasuriya, a Sri Lankan opener, and a legendary cricketer had more ODI wickets on his tally than the Australian legend, Shane Warne. Warne's 293 wickets in his One Day International career falls very short of Jayasuriya's 323 wickets.

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