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The nation where mostly Football sport is dominated, but peoples gave their time and love to cricket as well, yes we are talking about England where the atmosphere of cricket is on another level, especially in test cricket all the fans supports their team in almost every ball which makes the cricket more excited. However, today we are talking about ODI format where england completely changes their approach from last 5 years in the format. When we talks about bowling you might have a thought about who has taken the most odi wickets for england?

Well, bowling on england wickets is little bit supportive for fast bowler due to their conditions and the wicket, Moreover it requires the skills of the bowler to take wickets irrespective of the pitch consistently each and every to become best in the list. So let’s take a detailed look on which england player has taken the Most ODI Wickets For England.

 

Top 5 Players With Most ODI Wickets For England

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1. James Anderson

• The one of the greatest bowler who has still playing for the england in Test Cricket James Anderson is the player with the most odi wickets for england in history of one day international cricket. Jimmy Anderson has played 194 matches where he has picked 269 ODI wickets including 2-five wickets haul.
• Anderson has always been big headache for the teams to tackle him in the test and ODI cricket, specially when the match is in his home nation England. Yes the condition is favorable in England but we cannot overlook the skills of the bowler where he has proving to be the best from years and years.
• Although, Jimmy does not have that 90 mph pace but because of his mastery on In-swing and out-swing deliveries it makes him unplayable sometimes. The quality of finding the weak points of batsman and testing him at those points over and over again is the one factor involving in his success.
• He his absolutely a inspirations for the players who want to be a great bowler in test cricket format, where you can not only learn about bowling but also to manage the workload to play for such a long period at the age of 40 years.

2. Darren Gough

• Born in Barnsley, Darren Gough is considered to one of the finest bowler of England cricket. Darren has started his cricketing career by playing the county cricket for Yorkshire Cricket Club. In the span of 1994-2006 in ODI cricket he has taken 234 wickets in 158 matches which he played with the average of 35.99 which also contains 2-five wickets haul.
• Furthermore, He was also favourite player of the crowd because of his aggressive and entertaining playstyle on the field. He was the first bowler of England who has taken the first hat trick in ODI cricket and became 2nd player in terms of picking most odi wickets for England.

 

3. Adil Rashid

• The legendary leg spinner bowler of England Cricket Adil Rashid, who made the many great players dancing on his leg spin bowling comes in the 3rd place in the list of Most ODI Wickets For England. It will be not wrong to say that his is the white ball specialist player where he contributes to the team with not only his bowling but also his batting abilities in ODI and T20I.
• When we talks about his ODI career, he has played 125 ODI matches where he has taken 183 wickets with average 34.22 with 2-five wickets haul in the span of 2009-2023. The tally of his wickets will surely go up as he still the main leg spin bowler for the England. The ODI World Cup which is going to start in 3 months, he can be the X factor for the team.
• When we talks about his performance in the T20 leagues in the world he has shown his all rounding abilities in the leagues around the world, In the hardest T20 league of the world IPL, he has played couple of season with the Sunrisers Hyderabad where he performed well whenever he got the chance to play. But due to lack of management. franchise did not used all-rounder Adil Rashid effectively.
• At present, Rashid has taken a break from test cricket to focus fully on the white ball cricket for his team. Which led to many cricket experts calling his decision wrong to not play in the test cricket.

 

4. Stuart Broad

• Yet another great fast bowler of England Stuart Broad features himself in 4th spot in the elite list of most odi wickets for England. The duo of Anderson and Broad are possibly on the best active pair of fast bowling when it comes to taking the wickets for the team.
• Broad has played 121 matches in the period of 2006-2016, where he has bagged 178 wickets with the average of 34.32 which also includes a five wicket haul in his ODI journey. However, it was not easy for him to overcome the brutal six-sixes in a over by Yuvraj Singh in 2007 T20I world cup, but he came back as the one of the best bowler of england in every format.
• In Addition, Broad is also handy with his batting skills where he holds the record of 2nd fastest fifty by an England player in test cricket against Australia where he scored 50 runs in just 33 balls.

 

5. Andrew Flintoff

• The player who has impressed everyone with his all rounding performance, Andrew Flintoff joins the list of most odi wickets for England by picking 168 wickets in 138 games in the span of 1999-2009 in One day international cricket. His best match bowling performance includes 6-45 with 2-five wicket hauls as well.
• Apart from his bowling, he has also pretty good records when it comes to batting where he smashed 3,394 in 138 matches and played some crucial innings for the team when it required. Moreover, his aggressive behaviour creates more excitement among the fans, for example the iconic heated argument between Flintoff and Yuvraj Singh, where the Broad had to pay the consequences.

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Year 2016 was probably one of the best year for cricket fans as well as for players because of peak form of some great international players which made many people to watch ODI cricket throughout the year. It was the time when our modern favorite players was at their prime form of their life but now in 2023, most of the cricketers who we used to idolised are becoming older day by day and the day is not far away for their retirement. Therefore, let’s have a glance on players who scored most ODI runs in 2016.

 

5 Best Players Who Scored Most ODI Runs In 2016

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1. David Warner

The aggressive and fearless batter, David Warner who thoroughly ruled one day international cricket in 2016 with his back to back hundreds owns the record of scoring most ODI Runs In 2016. Warner made 1,388 runs out of 23 matches in the year including 7- hundreds and 4-fifties with the tremendous average of 63.09 per inning.

2 days back a friend of mine asked while watching Warner’s 2016 ODI highlights and asked How does he able to scored 7 centuries in one single year? The answer was pretty simple I guess, I said he may not perfect in terms of book cricket which emphasize on foot work but he achieved excellence when it comes hitting out side off stump balls with fearless approach.

Warner’s ODI cricket graph was going pretty well till 2018, but later when the sandpaper incident came out it changed his game and his way towards approaching his favorite sport. Undoubtedly he is one of the best left handed batsman of all time be It Test, ODI or T20I he left his marks in every format.

If we talk about his dominant area of scoring runs, majority of the peoples thinks he is a leg sider batter which is completely wrong, how can you forget his destructive cut shot and lofted cover drives which he mainly known for. A player cannot reach great heights on international level without playing in every area of the ground.

 

2. Steven Smith 

Imagine starting cricketing career as a leg spinner and becoming best test batsman of the era. We are talking about Steven Peter Devereux Smith who is known for his unorthodox technique and weird stance, yet he scored 1,154 runs in 26 ODI games with 3 hundreds and 7 fifties and became 2nd player in terms of having most odi runs in 2016 year.

I may ended up having no words to praise this man for his achievements especially when life gave him a setback where he has to stay away from his beloved sport. Moreover, There is always talks going on about his grip, batting stance, and playstyle and he proved absolutely wrong to all those peoples who says you have to follow book cricket technique to become best.

If we look at his best ODI inning of 2016, it came against New Zealand where he smashed 164 runs with his unorthodox shots in almost every area of the ground. I still remember that inning because of his stupendous six against Trent Boult where he literally came on 4th stump to hit the ball and executed pretty well.

 

3. Quinton De Kock

There was a time when Quinton De Kock used to compared with Virat Kohli and even some people made predictions that he may break the 100 centuries of Sachin Tendulkar, we are talking about when he was at peak form when he scored 857 runs in 17 matches with 3-centuries and 3-half centuries in 2016 ODI calendar which made him to enter in the list of most odi runs in 2016.

South African lefty, who made pretty good impact in ODI cricket especially against India and Australia. I still remember De Kock scoring 3 back to back ODI centuries in 2013 which gave him quite good attention and respect in world cricket. When I see him batting he looks like mixture of ODI and T20 batsman, whenever he wants at any stage he can change his batting style from passive to aggressive.

Have you ever watched his 178 runs innings against Australia in 2016? You will think that you are watching a video game. Aussies bowlers like Cummins, Hazlewood, and Marsh were looked hopeless in that game because of Quinny’s extraordinary knock with some crazy slog shots and pull which he usually plays.

 

4. George Bailey

Current Chief selector of Australia and former player, George Bailey who is popular for his weird stance which goes across off stump before even delivering the ball, regardless of his batting stance his performance was incredible in terms of scoring most runs in 2016 ODI where he played 27 matches and made 808 runs with pretty decent average of 36.72 runs.

Furthermore, Bailey is the only player who has the lowest average in this list of most odi runs in 2016, that’s because 2016 was his debut year as well where he got the Australian ODI cap in march 2016 and gave quite decent performance if we look from debut player perspective.

 

5.  Joe Root

World knows him as one of the best test player in current generation, but not to forget his incredible records of One day international cricket. Joe Root now might not play white ball cricket to manage workload of test cricket but have an eye when he thrashed 796 runs in 15 ODI games with exceptional average of 61.23 in year 2016.

Unarguably he has the perfect technique and class which we can see when he plays his strong back foot punches and cover drives with his full flow of bat aligned with his head and elbow which is actually treat for eyes to watch. One more thing which I want to share, I personally feel Root looks equally good as Virat Kohli when he plays cover drive, I mean it’s so satisfying to witness.

 

Conclusion

Therefore, these are our top 5 players who in terms of scoring most ODI runs in 2016 calendar, You might be thinking that I missed one player in this list isn’t? If you are a Indian cricket team fan you’ve already know he is Virat Kohli, the reason behind his exclusion from this list is because he played only 10 matches which is far less from all the above player which leads to getting less opportunities to score but still he made 739 runs in 2016 ODI cricket.

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