Shoaib Akhtar Cricket Stats & Career Records

Category: Bowler International team: Pakistan Career: 1997–2010

Shoaib Akhtar is a bowler associated with Pakistan, with an international career span of 1997–2010. Across the normalized career records available here, Shoaib Akhtar has 959 runs and 444 wickets across Test, ODI and/or T20I formats where records are available.

Shoaib Akhtar Career Stats

Career figures are cross-checked against the independent scorecard-derived layer. Exact matches are verified automatically; small source under-counts are corrected only when the scorecard layer is complete and identity-safe.

FormatCareerMatchesInningsRunsHSBat Avg50s100sWicketsBBIBowl Avg
✓ verified 1997–2007 46 67 544 47 10.07 0 0 178 6/11 25.70
1998–2007 163 84 394 43 8.95 247 6–16 24.97
✓ verified 2006–2010 15 6 21 8 7.00 0 0 19 3/38 22.74

Career rows are automatically cross-checked against the independent detailed-scorecard layer. Canonical team aliases are merged, representative-XI internationals are included for the same verified person, and conflicts are kept out of the verified state.

Detailed Data Coverage

The career total and the independent detailed-scorecard layer are compared format by format. A format is labelled Verified only when the corrected career total and detailed match total agree and the available runs/wickets reconcile.

FormatCareer matchesDetailed matchesCoverageCross-source checkStatus
TEST4646100.0%VerifiedVerified
ODI16316098.2%Partial dataPartial
T20I1515100.0%VerifiedVerified
Data integrity: Career summary validated · Detailed scorecard coverage 98.7% of career matches currently represented.

Shoaib Akhtar Detailed Match Analysis

Historical enrichment is filling this automatically in the background. The merged detailed-scorecard layer currently covers 98.7% of the career-match total, with approximately 3 career matches still missing from the deep layer. Complete opponent, venue and year tables switch on automatically only after format-level coverage and career-total reconciliation pass.

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Shoaib Akhtar Dismissals & Head-to-Head

Historical scorecards and Cricsheet ball-by-ball are kept separate so career dismissal evidence is not mixed with delivery-level coverage.

Level 1Historical scorecards

Who dismissed whom

100career batting dismissals
74dismissals with bowler named
367 / 444career wickets linked to a batter

Easy read: 74 of 100 batting dismissals identify the bowler; 26 scorecards do not. Missing names are never guessed.

Source check: summary totals reconcile with the complete stored breakdown.

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Shoaib Akhtar as batter

Top 20 shown. All 50 named bowlers total 74 dismissals.

BowlerTimes outHow
Glenn McGrath7caught, bowled, lbw
Anil Kumble4caught, bowled
Shane Warne4caught, stumping
Damien Fleming3caught, bowled
Zaheer Khan3caught, bowled
Andrew Flintoff2caught, bowled
Chris Gayle2bowled
Makhaya Ntini2bowled, caught
Muthiah Muralidaran2stumping, lbw
Rangana Herath2lbw, stumping
Shaun Pollock2caught
Stuart Broad2caught
Tim Bresnan2bowled
Albie Morkel1caught
Andrew Symonds1caught
Andy Bichel1caught
Andy Blignaut1caught
Ashley Giles1caught
Brooke Walker1stumping
Cameron Cuffy1caught

Shoaib Akhtar as bowler

Top 20 shown. All 195 named batters total 367 wickets.

BatterWicketsHow
Ricky Ponting7bowled, caught, lbw
Sourav Ganguly7bowled, caught
Adam Gilchrist6bowled, lbw, caught
Graeme Smith6lbw, bowled, caught
Jacques Kallis6caught, bowled
Sachin Tendulkar6lbw, caught
Steve Waugh6bowled, caught, lbw
Chris Gayle5caught, lbw, bowled
Ian Bell5caught, lbw
Irfan Pathan5caught, bowled
Sanath Jayasuriya5caught
Scott Styris5bowled, caught
AB de Villiers4caught, lbw, bowled
Andrew Strauss4caught
Herschelle Gibbs4caught, bowled
Javed Omar4caught, bowled, lbw
Kumar Sangakkara4caught
Marcus Trescothick4bowled, lbw
Mark Boucher4caught, bowled, lbw
Matthew Hayden4caught, lbw, bowled
Level 2Cricsheet ball by ball

Head-to-head matchups

95international Cricsheet matches available
37batting dismissals in covered matches
157wickets in covered matches
95 of 224 career internationals have Cricsheet ball-by-ball coverage (42.4%).

Coverage: the table is complete for the Cricsheet international matches available for this exact registry identity. Matches without delivery-level Cricsheet data are not invented or estimated.

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Shoaib Akhtar as batter

Top 20 bowlers by balls faced. The underlying player index contains all 72 bowler matchups.

BowlerMatchesBalls facedRunsStrike rateTimes out
Andrew Flintoff3542648.151
A Kumble64850104.172
AF Giles2381128.951
Zaheer Khan63639108.333
Steve Harmison2351645.711
Glenn McGrath134926.472
MJ Hoggard234926.471
Harvinder Singh4322578.131
R. P. Singh2271037.040
Michael Kasprowicz121419.050
Shane Warne119631.580
Daniel Vettori118738.891
Darren Lehmann11616.250
Jason Gillespie215426.670
Ricky Ponting114642.860
André Nel314535.710
Hendrik-Jan Mol11313100.000
Irfan Pathan111654.551
Makhaya Ntini511436.362
C White11027270.000

Shoaib Akhtar as bowler

Top 20 batters by legal balls bowled. The underlying player index contains all 215 batter matchups.

BatterMatchesLegal ballsRuns concededEconomyWickets
Rahul Dravid122791212.602
Marcus Trescothick102321794.632
Andrew Strauss132091504.313
SC Ganguly132021424.225
VVS Laxman111941083.342
SR Tendulkar131791474.935
Ian Bell91621084.004
Graeme Smith121501224.885
Jacques Kallis14140783.346
Mahendra Singh Dhoni‡81161125.794
W Jaffer3109472.592
Yuvraj Singh11107965.381
Boeta Dippenaar7100653.901
Virender Sehwag1090825.473
Gautam Gambhir688483.271
Martin Guptill6881057.161
Hashim Amla6861047.262
Justin Langer184654.640
Herschelle Gibbs580433.233
Paul Collingwood974695.590

Strike rate = runs per 100 balls. Economy = runs conceded per six legal balls.

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