2017 Champions Trophy: Stats – Most Wickets In A Single Edition!

Nov 2, 2023 at 3:52 PM

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2017 Champions Trophy: Stats – Most Wickets In A Single Edition!

Once again, the time has arrived for the ‘Mini World Cup’ and again, it will be England that will host the tournament for the second running time. The Indian team will head to this tournament as the defending Champions and the Virat Kohli-led side will look to retain the cup so as to go as defending champions next time again when the tournament will be played in India.

There are just 10 days left before the action kicks off in England and in the build-up to the tournament, let’s have a look at the highest wicket-takers in each edition of Champions Trophy – 

Jacques Kallis, 1998 (8 wickets) – In the first edition of Champions Trophy, it was the South African all-rounder Jacques Kallis who was the highest wicket-taker in the knockout tournament. Kallis in three games grabbed a total of eight wickets with best figures of 5/30 coming in the big final against West Indies.

Riding on a superb spell from the all-rounder, South Africa was able to dismiss West Indies on a score of 245 in the final and then chased it down to win the inaugural edition of the tournament, which was called as Wills International Cup at that time.

Venkatesh Prasad, 2000 (8 wickets) – Once again, the tournament was played on a knockout basis in the year 2000 in Kenya. New Zealand emerged as the winner of the tournament by defeating India in last over of the game final game. India put in all efforts to defend a total of 265 but failed.

However, an Indian bowler Venkatesh Prasad emerged as the highest wicket-taker in the tournament by virtue of taking eight wickets in the tournament. His best spell of 3/27 came in the final contest only but in the end, he failed to land trophy for team India.

Muttiah Muralitharan, 2002 (10 wickets) – For the first time, the tournament wasn’t played on a knockout basis and this time, the tournament turned out to have a dramatic end as a total of two finals were played and on both the occasions, rain played a spoilsport. The trophy was shared between India and Sri Lanka.

This time, it was the iconic spinner Muttiah Muralitharan who emerged as the highest wicket-taker in the tournament. Muralitharan bowled a total of 25.1 overs the tournament and scalped 10 wickets for just 70 runs at a mere economy rate of 2.78. The biggest irony was the off -spinner didn’t get a chance to bowl in both the finals, courtesy, relentless rain.

Andrew Flintoff, 2004 (9 wickets) – Andrew Flintoff was the star with the ball in the home conditions in the 2004 Champions Trophy. The former all-rounder grabbed nine wickets in the tournament with the best spell of 3/11 coming against Zimbabwe in the first game of the tournament.

England defeated Australia, the World Cup winning team of that time in the big semi-final but lost the final against West Indies.

Jerome Taylor, 2006 (13 wickets) – Once again, the Champions Trophy was played in an Asian country and this time, India hosted the tournament for the first time. It was the World Champions of that time – Australia – that went won on to lift the trophy for the first time to add another ICC trophy in their cabinet. They defeated West Indies in a low-scoring final to win the cup comfortably.

Talking of highest wicket taker, it was the West Indies pacer Jerome Taylor who emerged as the highest wicket-taker in the tournament.

In the final contest, Taylor and Ian Bradshaw grabbed a wicket each and Australia was two down with a score of 13 but bowlers failed to defend a low target of 138 as Shane Watson and Damien Martyn shared a match-winning partnership of 103 to take their team to their first ever Champions Trophy win.

Wayne Parnell, 2009 (11 wickets) – After 2008 Under 19 World Cup, the South African team management promoted their young fast bowler Wayne Parnell and he made international debut within one year.He retained his place for the Champions Trophy and it was the young pacer who eclipsed all the giants of the game to emerge as highest wicket-taker by virtue of taking 11 wickets in just three games.

However, he could not raise the performance of his team as South Africa was just able to win one out of three league stage games and could not make it to the second round as well.

Ravindra Jadeja, 2013 (12 wickets) – Surprisingly, it was a spinner who emerged as the highest wicket-taker in the seventh edition of Champions Trophy played in England. Ravindra Jadeja bagged the golden ball as the star of the Indian team in the final of the tournament pouched a total of 12 wickets.

Jadeja sent out a total of 41 overs in which he just gave 154 runs at an economy rate of 3.75. He also scalped a fifer which came against West Indies where he shone with figures of 5/36.

For the first time, the Indian team emerged as a sole winner of the cup, defeating England in the final which was effectively a T20 affair after rain played spoiler.

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