Who is the highest wicket taker in Test cricket?
In Test cricket, a player’s career accomplishments are recognized when they total 300 or more wickets taken. As of March 2022, just 36 cricket players had ever accomplished the accomplishment, which was first accomplished by Englishman Fred Trueman in 1964. Six players from Australia, six from India, five from England, five from South Africa, four…
In Test cricket, a player’s career accomplishments are recognized when they total 300 or more wickets taken. As of March 2022, just 36 cricket players had ever accomplished the accomplishment, which was first accomplished by Englishman Fred Trueman in 1964.
Six players from Australia, six from India, five from England, five from South Africa, four from New Zealand, four from the West Indies, and three each from Pakistan and Sri Lanka have taken 300 or more Test wickets. No player has ever come from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Ireland, or Zimbabwe to the 300-point milestone.
Who is the highest wicket taker in Test cricket?
Former Sri Lankan cricketer Muttiah Muralitharan holds the record for most wickets with 800 as of June 2022. His 16 wickets for 220 runs against England in 1998 was the fifth-best bowling performance by a player in a game.
The late West Indian player Malcolm Marshall had the highest bowling average (20.94) among those who had reached the milestone, and Indian spinner Ravichandran Ashwin took the shortest amount of time (54 Tests) to reach the 300-wicket mark. He also holds the records for the most five-wicket hauls (67) and ten-wicket hauls in a game (22).
