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Scottish All-Rounder Breaks Beloved Kapil Dev's Record
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McMullen ranks as the second fastest player to score 1000 runs and take 50 wickets in ODIs. Surpassing legends like Kapil Dev and Shakib al-Hasan.
South Africa born 25 year-old Scottish All-Rounder Brandon McMullen now ranks above the renowned Indian cricketer Kapil Dev, an all-time-great all-rounder (who guided India to their World Cup title in 1983), becoming the second fastest player to score a 1000 runs, and take 50 wickets in ODIs. He also surpassed the likes of Lance Klusener of South Africa, who was one of the best all-rounders of the 90s and the early 2000s, legendary Greg Chappell of Australia, and Bangladeshi cricketing icon, Shakib al-Hasan.
McMullen achieved this feat during Scotland's match against Netherlands in the Netherlands Tri-Nation Series, which was the eleventh round of the ongoing ICC Men's Cricket World Cup League 2. He took 33 matches to get the double, placing himself just below Netherlands' legend Ryan Ten Doeschate who took 28 innings to get the record. Scotland won the match by a comfortable margin of 44 runs.
During the match itself McMullen got just 9 runs in 13 balls while batting (hitting two fours in the process), whilst Finlay McCreath scored 81 off 106 balls (seven fours and one six), and Mark Watt 60 off 72 balls (five fours and two sixes) – their half-centuries helping Scotland to get to 262/9 in 50 overs. However, McMullen was lethal with his bowling, picking up 3 wickets in 10 overs – collecting the wickets of Max O'Dowd (23 runs off 14 balls, hitting two fours and two sixes), Vikramjeet Singh (7 runs off 14 balls, hitting just one four), and Noah Croes (26 runs off 24 balls, hitting four fours), with Netherlands' innings ending at 218 in 45 overs, and McMullen giving away 40 runs.
McMullen now ranks above the likes of Zeeshan Maqsood of Oman (37 innings), Corey Anderson of New Zealand (40 innings), Lance Klusener of South Africa (42 innings), Greg Chappell of Australia (44 innings), Kapil Dev of India (46 innings), Steve Waugh of Australia (46 innings) and Rohan Mustafa of UAE/Shakib al-Hasan of Bangladesh (50 innings each).
He made his international debut for Scotland in 2022, making his ODI debut against Namibia. In 33 ODIs, he has amassed 1149 runs at an average of 45.96, with four centuries, and four half-centuries to his name in 29 innings. His personal best being 151.
On the bowling end, he has collected 52 wickets at an average of 20.09. His personal best being 5/34 in a close match against Ireland.
First Published:
June 07, 2025, 12:47 IST
