Most Miserly Bowling Performances in ODI Cricket

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Posted 1 years ago

One Day Cricket is a game where the batsmen strive to score quick runs and put up a big total in a limited number of overs. Often, bowlers are at the receiving end of the onslaught by the batsmen.

This urgency of scoring quick runs became more visible since the introduction of the 30 yard circle rule in 1992. Batsmen have always wanted to take advantage of this rule and smash the bowlers all over the park.

However, there have been instances where the bowlers have had the upper hand and they choked the batsmen for runs. Such instances have been few and remarkable. There have been 33 instances of bowlers giving away runs at an incredible economy of less than 1 Run per over (where they have bowled a minimum of 7 overs)

These innings are a testament to the remarkable control the bowlers had while bowling. Interestingly, the focus maybe was on choking the runs, and hence only on 7 occassions out of 33 innngs, the bowler had taken 4 or more wickets. There was an exhibition of complete helplessness by the batsmen to score off the bowler.

Today we list 33 such bowling performances where the bowler has succeeded in bowling 7 or more overs at an incredible Economy Rate of less than 1.00.

Bowler	Country	Overs	Maidens	Runs	Wickets	Economy	Opponent	Venue	Match Date
Phil Simmons	West Indies	10	8	3	4	0.3	Pakistan	Sydney	17-12-1992
Curtly Ambrose	West Indies	10	5	5	1	0.5	Sri Lanka	Sharjah	13-10-1999
Wasim Akram	Pakistan	7.2	4	4	2	0.54	India	Sharjah	05-12-1986
Bernard Scholtz	Namibia	8.5	4	5	3	0.56	usa	port moresby	15-09-2022
Kapil Dev	India	7	4	4	0	0.57	West Indies	Port of Spain	09-03-1989
Sunil Joshi	India	10	6	6	5	0.6	South Africa	Nairobi (Gym)	26-09-1999
Andre Botha	Ireland	8	4	5	2	0.62	Pakistan	Kingston	17-03-2007
Arshad Khan	Pakistan	8	4	5	1	0.62	Bangladesh	Dhaka	02-06-2000
Mike Hendrick	England	8	4	5	1	0.62	Canada	Manchester	13-06-1979
Ray Price	Zimbabwe	10	5	7	0	0.7	Ireland	Nairobi (Gym)	17-10-2008
Geoff Lawson	Australia	7	5	5	2	0.71	Sri Lanka	Adelaide	28-01-1985
Curtly Ambrose	West Indies	10	4	8	2	0.8	Scotland	Leicester	27-05-1999
Chris Old	England	10	5	8	4	0.8	Canada	Manchester	13-06-1979
Ewen Chatfield	New Zealand	10	4	8	1	0.8	Sri Lanka	Dunedin	02-03-1983
Glenn Mcgrath	Australia	10	4	8	4	0.8	India	Sydney	14-01-2000
Richard Hadlee	New Zealand	12	6	10	0	0.83	East Africa	Birmingham	07-06-1975
Aasif Karim	Kenya	8.2	6	7	3	0.84	Australia	Durban	15-03-2003
Chris Old	England	7	4	6	2	0.85	Pakistan	Manchester	24-05-1978
Saeed Ajmal	Pakistan	7	4	6	2	0.85	Bangladesh	Chattogram	06-12-2011
Andy Caddick	England	8	4	7	0	0.87	Zimbabwe	Harare	20-02-2000
Carl Rackemann	Australia	8	4	7	3	0.87	India	Thiruvananthapuram	01-10-1984
Shaun Pollock	South Africa	8	4	7	3	0.87	Zimbabwe	Port Elizabeth	06-02-2000
Roger Harper	West Indies	9	4	8	2	0.88	Sri Lanka	Sharjah	03-12-1986
Abdul Qadir	Pakistan	10	4	9	4	0.9	New Zealand	Sharjah	15-04-1986
Muttiah Muralitharan	Sri Lanka	10	3	9	5	0.9	New Zealand	Sharjah	09-04-2002
Muttiah Muralitharan	Sri Lanka	10	4	9	0	0.9	West Indies	Nairobi (Gym)	04-10-2000
Farveez Maharoof	Sri Lanka	10	5	9	3	0.9	West Indies	Dambulla	02-08-2005
Mick Malone	Australia	10	5	9	2	0.9	West Indies	Melbourne	10-01-1982
Shaun Pollock	South Africa	10	4	9	1	0.9	Pakistan	Rawalpindi	10-10-2003
Somachandra de Silva	Sri Lanka	12	5	11	2	0.91	New Zealand	Derby	18-06-1983
John Snow	England	12	6	11	4	0.91	East Africa	Birmingham	14-06-1975
Derek Pringle	England	8.2	5	8	3	0.96	Pakistan	Adelaide	01-03-1992
Ewen Chatfield	New Zealand	9.2	4	9	2	0.96	India	Perth	18-01-1986