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Wasim Akram Test record against England

1987-06-04 – 2001-05-31 · Available official international scorecards

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The record at a glance

This study covers 18 Test matches against England with recorded batting or bowling figures: 25 batting innings and 30 bowling innings. Matches with no batting or bowling entry for this player are outside this sample.

Batting runs and dismissals; bowling runs conceded and wickets
DisciplineInningsRunsWickets / outsAverageStrike rate
Batting254622122.0056.41
Bowling301,7485730.6669.85

Batting average = runs ÷ dismissals; batting strike rate = runs per 100 balls. Bowling average = runs conceded ÷ wickets; bowling strike rate = legal balls per wicket. Rates require fully recorded inputs. — means unrecorded; N/A means a zero denominator.

Bowling economy: 2.63 runs per six legal balls. Legal balls recorded: 3,982.

Batting milestones in this sample: 0 centuries and 0 scores from 50 to 99. Balls faced: 819.

THE SHAPE OF A CAREER

How the record developed

Available scorecards

Formats are shown separately. These totals cover published scorecards against the twelve national teams; they can differ from complete official career records.

Test

Runs by seasonTest · annual total
15711878390Runs1987: 157 runs15719871992: 118 runs11819921996: 98 runs9819962000: 6 runs62001: 83 runs832001Season
Wickets by seasonTest · annual total
21161050Wickets1987: 18 wickets1819871992: 21 wickets2119921996: 11 wickets1119962000: 2 wickets22001: 5 wickets52001Season
Exact yearly figures · 5 seasons
Test archive totals by year
YearMatBat innsRunsHSAvgSR100s50s4s6sBFBowl innsWktsBowl avgEconBowl SR
200124833627.6674.77001301113549.402.83104.40
200023643.0021.420000284261.502.08177.00
199635984024.5044.950012121851131.812.7369.81
1992471184519.6650.860010123272122.002.7348.23
1987761574326.1668.2600139230111831.442.5673.61

Home, away and neutral conditions

Setting follows the recorded host country. Unknown locations are retained as unknown; venue names alone are not guessed.

Opposition record by match setting
SettingMatchesBat innsRunsBat avgBat SRBowl innsWicketsBowl avg
Home458320.7559.717456.25
Away142037922.2955.73235328.73
MOMENTS IN THE RECORD

Career timeline

Milestones found in available scorecards. The first recorded appearance here is not necessarily the international debut.

  1. First available scorecard

    Test v England · Manchester

  2. Highest recorded innings · 45* runs

    Test v England · Lord's

  3. First five-wicket innings in this archive

    Test v England · Manchester

  4. Best recorded bowling · 6/67

    Test v England · The Oval

  5. Latest available scorecard

    Test v England · Manchester

Recent recorded innings

Scorecards supporting this opposition study
DateVenueInningsRunsBallsWicketsConceded
2001-05-31Manchester4259
2001-05-31Manchester33641
2001-05-31Manchester2189
2001-05-31Manchester11632
2001-05-17Lord's31213
2001-05-17Lord's21925
2001-05-17Lord's1299
2000-11-29Faisalabad4013
2000-11-29Faisalabad3410
2000-11-29Faisalabad2169
2000-11-29Faisalabad1112
2000-11-15Lahore311
2000-11-15Lahore216
2000-11-15Lahore1040
1996-08-22The Oval3367
1996-08-22The Oval24081
1996-08-22The Oval1383
1996-08-08Leeds3748
1996-08-08Leeds23106
1996-08-08Leeds1712

This opposition study uses available scorecards in Cricket Wicket’s twelve-team publication scope. It is a dated archive analysis, not a claim of complete career coverage. Read the coverage and calculation method.