Mohammad Yousuf: Best bowling average and joint best bowling strike-rate in ODI history
Legendary Pakistan cricketer Mohammad Yousuf was one of the greatest batsmen during his time. However, here we are talking about his bowling where he still has the records.
While Yousuf played 288 ODIs between 1998 and 2010, the off-spinner bowled only two deliveries in ODI career. His ODI bowling figures were 0.1-0-1-0 (against West Indies at Southampton on 22nd September 2004) and 0.1-0-0-1 (against Zimbabwe at Kingston on 21st March 2007). On his second ODI delivery, Yousuf took the wicket of Zimbabwe tail-ender Chris Mpofu.
While Yousuf finished his ODI career with the bowling average of 1.00 and bowling strike-rate of 2.0, both are still the records in this format. Earlier, the English cricketer Derek Randall had the same ODI bowling strike-rate, but no one managed to finish with one or lesser bowling average.