spinner Harbhajan Singh became the 11th bowler in history to capture 400 Test wickets, as West Indies was dismissed for 204 in its first innings to usher an early tea in the rain-hit third Test Thursday. But Ishant Sharma, the most successful of all the bowlers in the series, upstaged Harbhajan, taking 5-77 from 21.3 overs at Windsor Park. Harbhajan, playing in his 96th Test, bowled Carlton Baugh for a top score of 60 about an hour and 20 minutes after lunch to achieve the milestone. Only former captains Anil Kumble (619) and Kapil Dev (434) have taken more wickets for India than Harbhajan. He is also the fourth spin bowler to take 400 wickets in Tests, following in the footsteps of fellow off-spinner Muttiah Muralitharan of Sri Lanka, whose 800 scalps are the most in Tests, Australia's Shane Warne (708) and Kumble. Sharma however, followed up his 6-55 in the first innings of the drawn second Test Oval in Bridgetown with another impressive spell of fast bowling, taking his tally to 21 wickets at 14.04 apiece in the three-Test series. Harbhajan ended with 2-26 from 15 overs. India holds a 1-0 lead in the three Test series, following a 63-run victory inside four days in the first Test at Sabina Park in Jamaica, and a draw in the second Test at Kensington Oval in Barbados. Pakistan plans cricket overhaul A blueprint to overhaul the operations of Pakistan cricket, including the resumption of series against neighbor India, will be submitted to the International Cricket Council within a week. The Pakistan Cricket Board's chief operating officer Subhan Ahmed told the Associated Press Thursday that board members would be consulted on the content of the submission before it is sent to the ICC. He said it may include “all or none” of 63 recommendations put forward by the Pakistan Task Team which examined the country's cricket operations. Among its suggestions, the Task Team urged resumption of the Pakistan-India series, removal of the PCB chairman's right to veto team selection, and an end to government's strong role in cricket matters.
