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Chaminda Vaas is Sri Lanka's most successful pace bowler, having taken 355 Test wickets, which equalled the number of Test wickets taken by Dennis Lillee, the legendary Australian fast bowler. He led the Sri Lankan new ball attack for many years. He achieved his 300th wicket on 12 December 2005 against India, becoming only the second Sri Lankan bowler to pass this milestone, after Muttiah Muralitharan. He has also taken 400 One Day International wickets, only the second Sri Lankan to do so, also after Muralitherian. As of the 24th of September 2011 only 3 bowlers have taken more ODI wickets.
On 27 August 2008, Vaas achieved a landmark in his ODI career, when he had Yuvraj Singh caught off his bowling in his very last ODI match against India at Columbo. Yuvraj Singh became his 400th ODI victim and consequently Vaas joined the illustrious company of Wasim Akram, Waqar Younis and his team mate Muttiah Muralitharan as only the fourth bowler in international cricket to have taken 400 ODI wickets.
Vaas also holds the record for the best bowling figures in one-day international cricket with his 8 for 19 off eight overs against Zimbabwe at the Sinhalese Sports Club Ground in 2001. Vaas took the first eight wickets of Zimbabwe's then record-lowest ODI innings of 38, with Muralitharan taking the final two wickets in his first over. It remains the only eight-wicket haul in ODI history.
Vaas has taken two ODI hat tricks in his career, the third of only four players to have achieved the feat. The first was taken as part of his 8/19 spell.
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