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Shane Warne was the first to take both 600 and 700 Test wickets, in 2005 and 2006 respectively. [16] [17] Warne's haul of 96 wickets in 2005 is the highest total in a calendar year, ahead of the 90 wickets taken the following year by Muralidaran, although he played fewer innings. [18]
The ICC World Test Championship, also referred to as the Test World Cup, is a league competition for Test cricket run by the International Cricket Council (ICC), which started on 1 August 2019. [1] [2] It is the premier championship for Test cricket. It is in line with the ICC's goal of having one pinnacle tournament for each of the three ...
Alan Davidson (Australia), in the tied 1st Test at Brisbane against the West Indies in 1960–61, was the first man to score 100 runs and take 10 wickets in a match (and is the only other player to achieve this so far), but without a century: his two scores with the bat were 44 and 80, in addition to 11 wickets (5/135 and 6/87).
In 2000, Walsh became the highest wicket-taker in Test cricket, breaking a six-year-old record of Kapil Dev's 434 wickets. He achieved the feat in his 114th match, which are 17 matches less than Kapil Dev. [ 19 ] Walsh became the first bowler to reach 500 wickets in the history of Test cricket.
[2] Sri Lankan bowler Muttiah Muralitharan has the highest aggregate with 534 wickets; he also has 10 five-wicket hauls. [2] Australian Glenn McGrath has the best bowling average (22.02) among players who have taken 300 or more wickets. [6] In terms of matches played, Brett Lee—another Australian cricketer—took the fewest (171) to ...
Darren Gough MBE (born 18 September 1970) is a retired English cricketer and former captain of Yorkshire County Cricket Club. [1] The spearhead of England's bowling attack through much of the 1990s, he is England's second highest wicket-taker in one-day internationals with 235, and took 229 wickets in his 58 Test matches, making him England's ninth-most-successful wicket-taker.
In seven successive Test series from 1982/83 to 1985/86 he took 21 or more wickets each time, in the last five of them averaging under 20. His most productive series in this period was the 1983/84 rubber against India, when he claimed 33 wickets as well as averaging 34 with the bat and making his highest Test score of 92 at Kanpur.
The most successful Test wicket-taker for England is James Anderson, [13] who made his Test debut in 2003 and retired in 2024. He played in a total of 188 Test matches and took 704 wickets, [14] both records for England. [15] He has also picked up five wickets in an innings on 32 occasions, which is the most for the national side. [16]