Bowlers with 200 or more wickets in Test Cricket

Sri Lankan off-spinner with a freaky action

Aussie leggie. Haunts Darryl Cullinan's nightmares.

Indian leg-spinner. Second man to take 10 wickets in an innings.

England fast bowler. Reliance on clouds is over-stated.

Australian fast bowler. Could probably bowl perfect line and length with a blindfold on.

West Indian fast bowler. More ducks than your local pond.

English fast bowler. His dad was a test batsman.

South African fast bowler. Best strike rate of any bowler on this list.

Indian all-rounder. One of the four great all-rounders of the 80s. World cup winning captain in 1983.

Sri Lankan spinner. Most successful left arm bowler in test history.

New Zealand all-rounder. Another of the great all-rounders of the 80s. Formerly held record for most career wickets.

South African fast bowler. Former South African captain. Famously sledged by Kumar Sangakkara about having the hopes of his country on his shoulders.

Indian spinner. Once took over 30 wickets in a series against Australia. The next highest Indian wicket taker in that series took 3.

Pakistan fast bowler. Left arm exponent of reverse-swing.

West Indian fast bowler. Once took 7 for 1 in a spell against Australia at the WACA in 1993

South African fast bowler. Has the best figures by a South African in a match.

Australian spinner. Niiiice, Garyyyy!

English all-rounder. The third great all-rounder of the 80s. Headingly '81.

West Indian fast bowler. Best bowling average on this list.

Pakistani fast bowler. Part of a deadly swing partnership with the only Pakistani bowler higher on this list than him.

Indian all-rounder. No bowler has taken fewer innings than him to reach 300 test wickets

Pakistani all-rounder. The remaining great all-rounder of the 80s. World cup winning captain in 1992.

New Zealand spinner. Most test wickets taken while wearing glasses.

Australian fast bowler. Javed Miandad once tried to hit him in the head with his bat.

Sri Lankan fast bowler. Only player to take 8 wickets in an ODI.

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.

England fast bowler. Former England captain. His match winning spell at Headingly in '81 is often overshadowed by the batting of his team mate.

Australian fast bowler. Bowls to the left. Bowls to the right. In the 2013/14 Ashes, his bowling was alright.

Indian fast bowler. Only two bowlers have dismissed more left-handed batsmen than him.

Australian fast bowler. A member of the 100mph club. Now in Bollywood.

South African fast bowler. Quit international cricket in 2018. Was once dropped in favour of his brother, who never played another test.

West Indian spinner. Second player to reach 300 wickets, and the first spinner. Held the record for most test wickets for over 5 years.

England fast bowler. First player to reach 300 wickets.

England spinner/medium pacer. Third youngest player to reach 1000 first class wickets. Deadly.

Indian fast bowler. Alastair Cook's only test wicket.

South African all-rounder. Better all-rounder than Sobers?

Australian fast bowler. Unsung Ashes hero

New Zealand fast bowler. A Kiwi mainstay for the last decade. Part of a left-hand/right-hand bowling partnership with the player below.

New Zealand fast bowler. The left-handed version of the player above...

Indian spinner. Hates T20 cricket. When coach of the Indian national team, he threatened to dump them in the sea...

Pakistan spinner. Asked Mervyn Westfield to help him commit spot-fixing. Banned for life by the ECB.

West Indian fast bowler. The greatest ODI bowler ever? His height of 6'8" led to the nickname 'Big Bird'.

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.

England spinner. Won 3 Ashes series in a row, retired with an elbow injury after England went 3-0 down in 2013/14.

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

West Indian fast bowler. Had a run up that sometimes began at the sight screen. Now a commentator.

Australian spinner/all-rounder. Ashes winning captain. The voice of cricket. Marvellous.

English fast bowler. Usually found getting Matthew Hayden out in 2005. Workhorse swing bowler.

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.

Australian fast bowler. Player of the tournament at the 2015 World Cup. Married to Alyssa Healy

Indian spinner. Suffered from polio as a child, which affected his bowling arm. Helped India acheive their first series win in England, in 1971.

England medium pace bowler. Had an identical twin brother called Eric. Another former world record holder on this list.

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.

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)

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.

England fast bowler. Born in New Zealand. A regular member of England's pace attack in the mid-nineties

New Zealand fast bowler. Probably the worst batsman in the history of test cricket. Took nearly twice as many wickets as he scored runs.

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.

Australian fast bowler. Also played top-level rugby league. Formed an effective new-ball partnership with Keith Miller

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.

English all-rounder. Man of the series in the 2005 Ashes series. Captained the disastrous defence in 06/07.

South African all-rounder. Second fastest man to reach 50 test wickets. Retired after the 2020 home series against England.

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.

New Zealand all-rounder. Third fastest player to reach the all-rounder's double. Scored a century in the 2000 Champions Trophy final.

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.

Zimbabwean all-rounder. Only Zimbabwean to take 100 test wickets.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Australian spin bowler. Played second fiddle to Shane Warne for most of his career.

Pakistani spin bowler. Pioneer of the doosra. Has the third lowest batting average for a test player who has scored a century.

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.

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.

English fast bowler. Was once dropped for barging into Sunil Gavaskar. Not to be confused with the know-nothing from Game of Thrones

West Indian fast bowler. Took his 200th wicket in front of an empty ground in bio-secure test series against England.

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.