The big surprise was Ricky Ponting's decision to leave out seamer Stuart Clark, the leading wicket-taker in the 2006-07 Ashes and man of the match in the final Test at Sydney.
This season, Amjad's 38 victims makes him Kent's leading wicket-taker in first-class cricket, but he has fallen behind the likes of Steven Finn, Ajmal Shahzad and Tim Bresnan in the England pecking order.
Schofield claimed 17 victims in this season's Twenty20 Cup, making him the leading wicket-taker in the group stage, and also took 13 in the 50-over Friends Provident Trophy.
Stevens' main liability seems to be that he is an affable, quirky risk-taker in the charm-challenged world of GOP political pros.
The council said that test-taker volume in April and May rose "quite significantly" in the lead-up to that change, compared with the previous year.
The Sri Lankan is the second-highest wicket-taker in Test cricket with 532 scalps in 91 matches, behind Aussie leg-spinner Shane Warne (583 wickets).
He was Yorkshire's leading wicket-taker in the County Championship last season and has been offered a three-year deal by Leicestershire.
He said all the bowlers had had to shoulder more responsibilty in the absence of Matthew Hoggard, England's leading wicket-taker in the series.
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Walsh, who retired two years ago, is still the leading wicket-taker in Test cricket with 519.
Khan was Kent's leading wicket-taker in the 2006 Championship, claiming 34 scalps at a cost of 30.41 each.
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Mr Rajaratnam, a risk-taker in his trading, took the same approach to fighting the government's charges against him.
Barbados-born Collymore is Sussex's leading wicket-taker in the County Championship this term, taking 57 wickets at an average of 19.87.
At that rate, the credit card giant would eclipse the U.S. Federal Reserve as the world's premier toll-taker in the currency business.
Hoggard was Yorkshire's leading wicket-taker in the County Championship last term.
Australia ensured Muttiah Muralitharan would have to wait until the home series against England to have the chance to overhaul Australia leg-spinner Shane Warne as the leading wicket-taker in Test history.
They have a settled batting line-up led by captain Graeme Smith and Jacques Kallis and a hostile seam attack, spearheaded by Dale Steyn, who is the leading wicket-taker in Test cricket this year.
Since then he has become the second-highest wicket taker in the competition with 28 and is the leading six-hitter with 27 to date.
However its use was commercialised by a Texas wildcatter called George Mitchell, the sort of risk-taker America has in abundance.
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Three Scotland players were drawn towards the throw-in taker and Antonio Di Natale had plenty of time to gather in the box and drive it low to the front post, where Toni finished from five yards.
In his day job David Nahmad is a risk-taker, trading millions of dollars in currencies and commodities, as well as betting hundreds of thousands on backgammon in Monte Carlo--he holds the 1996 world title.
Henderson is Twenty20's all-time leading wicket-taker, taking 73 wickets in 60 matches and helping Middlesex become English champions in the process.
Both countries have some way to go before they produce footballers who reach the same level as their other sporting heroes such as Tendulkar - the second highest Test century maker of all time - and Courtney Walsh - the leading wicket taker in Test history.
She aimed to dress an aristocratic fashion risk-taker for all those parties at castles in the English countryside.
Likewise, all-time leading wicket-taker Muttiah Muralitharan's five victims in the same match went unrecognised by the man known around the cricket world as the Bearded Wonder.
Gore took to heart the strategy espoused by pollster Stan Greenberg, who was Clinton's pulse-taker until the Republicans won control of Congress in 1994.
Lancashire clinched a deal to bring the world's leading Test wicket-taker back to Old Trafford after two successful spells in 1999 and 2001.
Ganguly gave special praise to Anil Kumble, who joined Kapil Dev as India's highest Test-wicket taker on 434 dismissals after snapping up three in South Africa's second innings.
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McGrath is expected to pass other great fast bowlers, Richard Hadlee (431) and Kapil Dev (434) in Zimbabwe to become the fourth-highest Test wicket-taker of all time.
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While all teams have done a great job demonstrating the value of innovation, three U.S. Teams: Note-Taker, LifeLens, and Dragon, represented the United States as contenders in the Worldwide Finals round of the competition.
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