Records and Achievements
- Saqlain was selected as one of the Wisden Cricketers of the Year for 2000.
- A statistical analysis conducted by Wisden in 2003 revealed Saqlain as the all-time greatest ODI spinner, and sixth greatest of all ODI bowlers.
- Was the fastest to reach the milestones of 100, 150, 200 and 250 wickets in ODIs.
- He was the first of only two spinners to have taken a hat-trick in an ODI (the other being Abdur Razzak), and the second of only four bowlers to have taken two ODI hat tricks (Wasim Akram, Chaminda Vaas and Lasith Malinga being the others), the second of which was only the second hat-trick in a World Cup match.
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