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As of March 2024, former Sri Lankan cricketer Muttiah Muralitharan has the highest aggregate with 800 wickets. [6] He also holds the record for the most five-wicket hauls (67) and ten-wicket hauls in a match (22); his 16 wickets for 220 runs against England in 1998 is the fifth-best bowling performance by a player in a match.
In the Manchester Test of 1956, England spin bowler Jim Laker took 19 wickets for 90 runs (19–90) which set not only the Test record for best match figures but also the first-class one. [13] In taking 10–53 in the second innings he became the first bowler to capture ten wickets in a Test match innings, and his analysis remains the best ...
List of cricketers who have taken two five-wicket hauls on Test debut; List of cricketers who scored a century in their hundredth Test; List of Ireland Test cricket records; List of New Zealand Test cricket records; List of players who have scored 10,000 or more runs in Test cricket; List of South Africa Test cricket records; List of Sri Lanka ...
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 accomplish ...
5+ wickets Matches Player Nationality Wickets Average Career Span 1 17 411: Waqar Younis Pakistan: 674: 22.37: 1998–2004 2 12 140: Mitchell Starc† Australia: 295: 20.71: 2009–2023 453: Muttiah Muralitharan Sri Lanka: 682: 22.39: 1991–2011 594: Wasim Akram Pakistan: 881: 22.91: 1984–2003 5 11 501: Shahid Afridi Pakistan: 510: 33.82: ...
The highest aggregate in a first-class match (both sides) was 2376, Maharashtra v Bombay at Poona, 1948–49. [24] [25] Totals of 800 and above have been compiled on 39 occasions, most recently by England (scoring 823 for seven declared) against Pakistan at Multan in a 2024-25 Test Match. [26] Source: Wisden 2006. Last updated: 11 October 2024.
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 ...
This is a list of bowlers who have taken a wicket with the first ball they bowled in one of the three formats of international cricket. In Test cricket, 24 bowlers have taken a wicket with their first ball. The first was Australian Tom Horan, who dismissed Walter Read with his first ball on 26 January 1883, and the most recent is South African ...