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  3. Muttiah Muralitharan has taken the highest number of wickets in Test cricket. Taking 300 or more wickets across a playing career is considered a significant achievement in Test cricket. First accomplished in 1964 by Englishman Fred Trueman, as of March 2024 the feat has been achieved by only 37 cricketers in the history of the game

    • Glenn McGrath – 563
    • James Anderson – 614
    • Anil Kumble – 619
    • Shane Warne – 708
    • Muttiah Muralitharan – 800

    Australian pacer Glenn McGrath is regarded among the greatest fast bowlers of all time. He took 563 wickets in 124 matches at an average of 21.64 and a strike rate of 51.9. He was part of the Australian Test team for around 14 years from 1993 to 2007. McGrath was the leading pacer for Australia in Test cricket with 29 fifers also to his name.

    English pacer James Anderson is the highest wicket-taker in Test cricket among current players. He still looks fit and fine to play for two or more years. Anderson has picked up 614 wickets in 160 games at an average of 26.46 and a strike rate of 55.9. He has taken 35 fifers and three 10-wicket hauls in Test cricket with the best innings figures of...

    Anil Kumble is the leading wicket-taker for India in the longest format. He has 619 scalps to his name in 132 matches with an average of 29.65 and a strike rate of 65.9. Kumble took 35 five-wicket hauls and 8 ten-wicket hauls in his Test career. He is one of the only two bowlers to pick all 10 wickets in a Test inning. He achieved this milestone ag...

    Australian spinner Shane Warne is considered among the greatest spinners to have ever played the game. He picked up 708 wickets in 145 Tests at an average of 25.41 and a strike rate of 57.4. Warne took 37 fifers and ten 10-wicket hauls during his playing career in the five-day format. He registered his best bowling figures of 8/71 against England i...

    Sri Lankan spinner Muttiah Muralitharan is the leading wicket-taker in Test cricket history. He picked up a record 800 wickets in 133 Test matches at an average of 22.72 and a strike rate of 55. Muralitharan also holds the record for taking the most fifers (67) and the most ten-wicket hauls (22) in the longest format. He was part of the Sri LankaTe...

    • Muthiah Muralidaran (Sri Lanka) At the very top of the list is Sri Lanka’s mystery spinner Muthiah Muralidaran. The man with the ‘helicopter’ wrist bamboozled many batsman over a long test career which lasted between 1992 and 2010.
    • Shane Warne (Australia) Firstly I just wanted to say what a shock it was when, like the rest of the cricketing world, I learned of the passing of Shane Warne.
    • Jimmy Anderson (England) England’s Jimmy Anderson has yet to officially retire from test cricket so he still has time to add to his haul of wickets. At the conclusion of the 2021/22 Ashes series in Australia, the Lancashire bowler had taken 640 wickets, the most for a seamer.
    • Anil Kumble (India) Indian leg spinner Anil Kumble is next with 619 wickets in 132 tests. He may sit in fourth place on the overall list but Kumble is a history maker as he is one of only three bowlers to take all ten wickets in a test innings.
  4. What. 614 total number. Where. India (Ahmedabad) When. 06 March 2021. England’s James “Jimmy” Anderson had amassed 614 Test match wickets as of 6 March 2021. The pace bowler’s first-ever Test wickets – and the first of his 30 five-wicket hauls – were taken against Zimbabwe at Lord’s, UK, in May 2003.

  5. Aug 6, 2021 · With 620 wickets, the England paceman is only behind Muttiah Muralitharan (800) and Shane Warner (708) on the list of highest wicket-takers in the longest format of the game. James Anderson, at 39, becomes the third-highest wicket-taker in Test cricket 🐐 #ENGvIND | #WTC23 pic.twitter.com/vo874jWePa. — ICC (@ICC) August 6, 2021.