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Wasim Akram was the first to achieve 500 ODI wickets. He achieved this milestone during the 1999 Cricket World Cup, becoming the first bowler to take 500 wickets in One Day Internationals. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest fast bowlers of all time, and his record of 502 ODI wickets stood for over a decade until it was broken by Muttiah Muralitharan in 2009