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Bowlers with 200 or more wickets in Test Cricket - Statistics
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| Aussie leggie. Haunts Darryl Cullinan's nightmares. | Shane Warne | 97%
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| Australian fast bowler. Could probably bowl perfect line and length with a blindfold on. | Glenn McGrath | 96%
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| England fast bowler. Reliance on clouds is over-stated. | James Anderson | 95%
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| West Indian fast bowler. More ducks than your local pond. | Courtney Walsh | 94%
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| English all-rounder. The third great all-rounder of the 80s. Headingly '81. | Ian Botham | 94%
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| Indian all-rounder. One of the four great all-rounders of the 80s. World cup winning captain in 1983. | Kapil Dev | 94%
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| English fast bowler. His dad was a test batsman. | Stuart Broad | 94%
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| Indian leg-spinner. Second man to take 10 wickets in an innings. | Anil Kumble | 92%
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| West Indian fast bowler. Once took 7 for 1 in a spell against Australia at the WACA in 1993 | Curtly Ambrose | 91%
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| South African fast bowler. Best strike rate of any bowler on this list. | Dale Steyn | 91%
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| Australian spinner. Niiiice, Garyyyy! | Nathan Lyon | 91%
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| New Zealand all-rounder. Another of the great all-rounders of the 80s. Formerly held record for most career wickets. | Richard Hadlee | 91%
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| South African fast bowler. Former South African captain. Famously sledged by Kumar Sangakkara about having the hopes of his country on his shoulders. | Shaun Pollock | 91%
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| Pakistan fast bowler. Left arm exponent of reverse-swing. | Wasim Akram | 91%
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| Australian fast bowler. A member of the 100mph club. Now in Bollywood. | Brett Lee | 90%
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| Pakistani all-rounder. The remaining great all-rounder of the 80s. World cup winning captain in 1992. | Imran Khan | 90%
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| Sri Lankan off-spinner with a freaky action | Muttiah Muralitharan | 90%
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| South African fast bowler. Michael Atherton gloved him behind at Trent Bridge in 1998, but was given not out. This bowler spent the rest of the match trying to kill him. | Allan Donald | 87%
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| New Zealand spinner. Most test wickets taken while wearing glasses. | Daniel Vettori | 86%
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| Australian fast bowler. Javed Miandad once tried to hit him in the head with his bat. | Dennis Lillee | 86%
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| Indian spinner. Once took over 30 wickets in a series against Australia. The next highest Indian wicket taker in that series took 3. | Harbhajan Singh | 86%
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| South African fast bowler. Has the best figures by a South African in a match. | Makhaya Ntini | 86%
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| Indian fast bowler. Only two bowlers have dismissed more left-handed batsmen than him. | Zaheer Khan | 86%
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| England fast bowler. Former England captain. His match winning spell at Headingly in '81 is often overshadowed by the batting of his team mate. | Bob Willis | 85%
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| Pakistani fast bowler. Part of a deadly swing partnership with the only Pakistani bowler higher on this list than him. | Waqar Younis | 84%
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| West Indian fast bowler. Best bowling average on this list. | Malcolm Marshall | 82%
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| West Indian fast bowler. Had a run up that sometimes began at the sight screen. Now a commentator. | Michael Holding | 82%
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| West Indian fast bowler. The greatest ODI bowler ever? His height of 6'8" led to the nickname 'Big Bird'. | Joel Garner | 81%
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| Australian fast bowler. Bowls to the left. Bowls to the right. In the 2013/14 Ashes, his bowling was alright. | Mitchell Johnson | 81%
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| Indian all-rounder. No bowler has taken fewer innings than him to reach 300 test wickets | Ravichandran Ashwin | 80%
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| South African fast bowler. Quit international cricket in 2018. Was once dropped in favour of his brother, who never played another test. | Morne Morkel | 77%
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| Sri Lankan fast bowler. Only player to take 8 wickets in an ODI. | Chaminda Vaas | 76%
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| South African all-rounder. Better all-rounder than Sobers? | Jacques Kallis | 76%
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| Australian fast bowler. Had a terrible Ashes series in 2005. Kerry O'Keeffe suggested he be dropped for opera singer Marina Prior. Dropped after scoring a double century, and never played for Australia again. | Jason Gillespie | 76%
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| Sri Lankan spinner. Most successful left arm bowler in test history. | Rangana Herath | 76%
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| England spinner. Won 3 Ashes series in a row, retired with an elbow injury after England went 3-0 down in 2013/14. | Graeme Swann | 73%
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| Australian spinner/all-rounder. Ashes winning captain. The voice of cricket. Marvellous. | Richie Benaud | 73%
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| Australian fast bowler. Player of the tournament at the 2015 World Cup. Married to Alyssa Healy | Mitchell Starc | 72%
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| West Indian spinner. Second player to reach 300 wickets, and the first spinner. Held the record for most test wickets for over 5 years. | Lance Gibbs | 71%
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| New Zealand fast bowler. The left-handed version of the player above... | Trent Boult | 70%
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| Indian spinner. Hates T20 cricket. When coach of the Indian national team, he threatened to dump them in the sea... | Bishan Bedi | 68%
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| England spinner/medium pacer. Third youngest player to reach 1000 first class wickets. Deadly. | Derek Underwood | 68%
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| West Indian all-rounder. Another candidate for the greatest all-rounder in history. Once hit Malcolm Nash for six sixes in an over in a county game. Worst strike-rate of the players on this list. | Garfield Sobers | 68%
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| New Zealand fast bowler. A Kiwi mainstay for the last decade. Part of a left-hand/right-hand bowling partnership with the player below. | Tim Southee | 68%
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| English all-rounder. Man of the series in the 2005 Ashes series. Captained the disastrous defence in 06/07. | Andrew Flintoff | 66%
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| English fast bowler. Usually found getting Matthew Hayden out in 2005. Workhorse swing bowler. | Matthew Hoggard | 63%
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| Pakistani spinner. The leading leg-spinner of the 1970s and 80s. Has the seventh best bowling figures in an innings of all time, and the best by a Pakistan player (9-56) | Abdul Qadir | 58%
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| England fast bowler. Once hung up on David Cameron, who was offering him an invitation to stand for election to parliament, because he thought it was a wind up. The Prime Minister had to call him back. Mainstay of England's attack in the nineties. | Darren Gough | 57%
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| Australian fast bowler. Javed Miandad called him a fat bus driver. Once took a hat-trick across three different overs, in two different innings, on two different days. | Merv Hughes | 57%
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| Australian fast bowler. Took a hat-trick on his birthday in 2010. First number 9 batsman to score 50 in both innings of a test match. Dismissed Kevin Pietersen 10 times in test cricket - more than any other bowler. | Peter Siddle | 57%
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| English fast bowler. Bowled the ball that won the Edgbaston test in the 2005 Ashes. Bowled the first ball of the 06/07 Ashes to second slip. | Steve Harmison | 57%
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| England fast bowler. Born in New Zealand. A regular member of England's pace attack in the mid-nineties | Andrew Caddick | 56%
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| England fast bowler. First player to reach 300 wickets. | Fred Truman | 54%
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| Indian all-rounder. Scored 3 first class triple-centuries by the age of 23. Was jointly ranked as the number 1 test bowler in the world with another Indian spinner on this list - the only spinners in history to share the number 1 ranking. | Ravindra Jadeja | 52%
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| West Indian fast bowler. Part of the dominant West Indian attack of the 70s and 80s. The first Antiguan to play test cricket for the West Indies. | Andy Roberts | 51%
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| Indian fast bowler. Alastair Cook's only test wicket. | Ishant Sharma | 49%
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| England fast bowler. The south end of Old Trafford is named after him. Briefly held the world record for most test match wickets. Not related to The Transporter | Brian Statham | 46%
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| Australian fast bowler. Unsung Ashes hero | Craig McDermott | 46%
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| Australian spin bowler. Played second fiddle to Shane Warne for most of his career. | Stuart MacGill | 46%
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| New Zealand all-rounder. Third fastest player to reach the all-rounder's double. Scored a century in the 2000 Champions Trophy final. | Chris Cairns | 43%
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| New Zealand fast bowler. Probably the worst batsman in the history of test cricket. Took nearly twice as many wickets as he scored runs. | Chris Martin | 43%
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| Zimbabwean all-rounder. Only Zimbabwean to take 100 test wickets. | Heath Streak | 43%
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| England medium pace bowler. Had an identical twin brother called Eric. Another former world record holder on this list. | Alec Bedser | 42%
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| Australian fast bowler. In describing him and his opening bowling partner Wisden stated "...it was easy to believe they were the fastest pair ever to have coincided in a cricket team". Claimed he could bowl well over 100mph. | Jeff Thompson | 42%
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| English fast bowler. Was once dropped for barging into Sunil Gavaskar. Not to be confused with the know-nothing from Game of Thrones | John Snow | 42%
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| South African all-rounder. Second fastest man to reach 50 test wickets. Retired after the 2020 home series against England. | Vernon Philander | 42%
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| Indian fast bowler. India's main (at times seemingly their only) fast bowler during the mid-90s. Fastest recorded delivery of 98mph. India's leading wicket taker in the 2003 World Cup - his fourth tournament. | Javagal Srinath | 41%
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| Australian fast bowler. Also played top-level rugby league. Formed an effective new-ball partnership with Keith Miller | Ray Lindwall | 39%
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| Australian spin bowler. Born in New Zealand in the 1890s. The first bowler to take 200 test wickets. Held the record for the fewest matches taken to reach 200 wickets for 82 years. | Clarrie Grimmett | 35%
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| Pakistan spinner. Asked Mervyn Westfield to help him commit spot-fixing. Banned for life by the ECB. | Danish Kaneria | 35%
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| Pakistani spin bowler. Pioneer of the doosra. Has the third lowest batting average for a test player who has scored a century. | Saqlain Mushtaq | 35%
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| New Zealand fast bowler. Born in South Africa. The only player to take 5 wickets in a six-ball over. The most recent addition to this list. | Neil Wagner | 33%
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| Indian spinner. Suffered from polio as a child, which affected his bowling arm. Helped India acheive their first series win in England, in 1971. | Bhagwath Chandrasekhar | 30%
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| Bangladeshi all-rounder. Only player to top the all-rounder rankings in all three forms of the game, at the same time. Only Bangladesh player to take 200 wickets. | Shakib Al Hasan | 30%
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| Australian fast bowler. Retired from test cricket two wickets shy of the Australian record (at the time) held by the next Australian above him on this list. | Graham McKenzie | 28%
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| Pakistani spin bowler. Reached 200 wickets in fewer matches than any other player in history. Was ranked at the top of the test bowling rankings less than two years after his debut. | Yasir Shah | 27%
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| West Indian fast bowler. Took his 200th wicket in front of an empty ground in bio-secure test series against England. | Kemar Roach | 5%
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