Who Are The Top 10 Wicket Takers In Test Cricket?

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Player Span 10
M Muralitharan

(ICC/SL) 1992-2010 22
SK Warne (AUS) 1992-2007 10 Sir RJ Hadlee (NZ) 1973-1990 9 HMRKB Herath (SL) 1999-2018 9

Who has the most 10 wickets in Test cricket?

Player Span 10
M Muralitharan

(ICC/SL) 1992-2010 22
SK Warne (AUS) 1992-2007 10 Sir RJ Hadlee (NZ) 1973-1990 9 HMRKB Herath (SL) 1999-2018 9

Who is the most wicket taker in Test cricket?

The leading wicket-taker of all time in men’s international tests is

Sri Lanka’s Muttiah Muralitharan

. The spin bowler took 800 wickets in a test career spanning from 1992 to 2010.

Who took 7 wickets in ODI?

# Player Wickets 1 W P U J C Vaas 8 2

Shahid Afridi

7
3 G D McGrath 7 4 Rashid Khan 7

Who took 10 wickets in 1 innings?


New Zealand bowler Ajaz Patel

took 10 wickets against India in Mumbai in the first innings of the Test match no. 2438. Bowlers have achieved 10 wickets haul in a single innings of a Test match only on three occasions in the 144-year history of Test cricket. India figures in two of the three such feats.

Who took 6 wickets in 6 balls?

In a rare instance, a bowler named

Aled Carey

produced the ‘perfect over’ by taking six wickets in six balls while playing club cricket in Australia. His first wicket was caught at slip, followed by a caught-behind, an LBW and three consecutive clean bowls thereafter.

Who is the 2nd highest wicket taker in Test matches?

No. Bowler Wkts 1 Muttiah Muralitharan 800 2

Shane Warne

708
3 James Anderson 635 4 Anil Kumble 619

Who is the best Test bowler?

Pos Player Career Best Rating 1 (0)

Pat Cummins

914 v England, 18/08/2019
2 (0) Ravichandran Ashwin 904 v England, 12/12/2016 3 (0) Shaheen Afridi 822 v Bangladesh, 08/12/2021 4 (1) Tim Southee 839 v India, 29/11/2021

Which is the highest ODI score?

In November 2014, India’s Rohit Sharma broke the record for the highest individual score in a One Day International cricket match. The opener scored an astonishing

264 runs of 173 balls

against Sri Lanka in Kolkata.

Who is best bowler in t20?

Rank Player Career Best Rating 1

Wanindu Hasaranga Sri Lanka

797 v West Indies, 04/11/2021
2 Tabraiz Shamsi South Africa 821 v West Indies, 03/07/2021 3 Adam Zampa Australia 726 v Sri Lanka, 30/10/2019 4 Adil Rashid England 730 v Sri Lanka, 01/11/2021

Who took 19 wickets in a Test match?


Jim Laker

will always be remembered for his bowling in the Test match at Old Trafford in 1956, when he took 19 Australian wickets for 90, 9 for 37 in the first innings and 10 for 53 in the second. No other bowler has taken more than seventeen wickets in a first-class match, let alone in a Test match.

Has anyone taken 20 wickets in a Test match?


Indian pacers

take all 20 wickets in a Test for first time. The Johannesburg Test match between India and South Africa was the first instance of India’s pacers taking all 20 wickets in a Test.

Which team has lowest score in ODI?

# Team Score 1

Zimbabwe


35
2 United States 35 3 Canada 36 4 Zimbabwe 38

Who hit 6 sixes in an over?

1)

Herschelle Gibbs

: The first one to achieve this feat was South African opening batsman Herschelle Gibbs. While batting during a match against Netherlands in the ICC Cricket World Cup 2007 on March 16, Gibbs unleashed on leg-spin bowler Daan Van Bunge and hit him for six sixes in the 30th over of the game.

Who has the most 5 wicket haul in ODI cricket?

With 13 five-wicket hauls,

Waqar Younis

holds the highest number of five-wicket hauls in ODI cricket.

What is a pie in cricket?


PIE THROWER An inferior bowler

, one who bowls like a clown throwing a pie. Not to be confused with the likes of Merv Hughes and Mike Gatting, who were, of course, famed pie-eaters. PLUMB The perfect lbw. When the ball hits a batsman on the leg directly in front of the stumps.

Who is No 1 Test all rounder?

Pos Player Career Best Rating 1 (0)

Jason Holder

485 v England, 12/07/2020
2 (0) Ravichandran Ashwin 492 v England, 29/11/2016 3 (0) Ravindra Jadeja 438 v Sri Lanka, 07/08/2017 4 (0) Shakib Al Hasan 489 v Australia, 30/08/2017

Who scored 300 in ODI?


Don Bradman

is international cricket history’s only player to score 300+ runs in one day, accomplishing the feat on July 11, 1930.

Who is best spinner in the world?


Muttiah Muralitharan

is the greatest spinner to have ever played. A unique off-spinner, he used his wrist to turn the ball sharply making him the first wrist spinning off-spinner in the history of cricket. A few years into his international career, Murali added the famous “doosra” to his repertoire.

Who is World No 1 bowler?

Rank Player Rating 1

Trent Boult New Zealand

737
2 Josh Hazlewood Australia 709 3 Mujeeb Ur Rahman Afghanistan 708 4 Chris Woakes England 700

Who scored 10000 in cricket?

No. Player Inn. 1

Sachin Tendulkar

452
2 Kumar Sangakkara 380 3 Ricky Ponting 365 4 Sanath Jayasuriya 433

Has India scored 400 in ODI?

India (5 times)

India is second on the list with

five 400+ scores

in ODIs. Their first time was against Bermuda in the 2007 World Cup. They cracked 413/5 aided by Viru’s 114 and fifties from Sachin Tendulkar and Yuvraj Singh.

Who is No 1 T20 all rounder?

Pos Player Career Best Rating 1 (0)

Mohammad Nabi

355 v Bangladesh, 15/09/2019
2 (0) Shakib Al Hasan 408 v Pakistan, 24/04/2015 3 (0) Liam Livingstone 179 v New Zealand, 10/11/2021 4 (0) Glenn Maxwell 397 v Sri Lanka, 27/10/2019

Who is 1st rank in T20?

Rank Player Career Best Rating 1

Dawid Malan England

915 v South Africa, 01/12/2020
2 Babar Azam Pakistan 896 v England, 05/05/2019 3 Mohammad Rizwan Pakistan 798 v West Indies, 16/12/2021 4 Aiden Markram South Africa 796 v England, 06/11/2021

Who is cricket king?

Competition Test ODI 100s/50s 27/27 43/62 Top score 254* 183 Balls bowled 175 641 Wickets 0 4

What is the highest t20 score?

Rank Score Date 1

278/3

(20 overs) 23 February 2019
278/4 (20 overs) 30 August 2019 3 267/2 (20 overs) 13 September 2019 4 263/5 (20 overs) 23 April 2013

Who scored 400 runs in Test cricket?

Characteristic Number of runs scored
BC Lara

(West Indies vs England – 2004)* 400
ML Hayden (Australia vs Zimbabwe – 2003) 380 BC Lara (West Indies vs England – 1994) 375 DPMD Jayawardene (Sri Lanka vs South Africa – 2006) 374

Has anyone ever got 10 wickets in an innings?

The feat in cricket of a bowler taking ten wickets in a single innings of a first-class match is rare and has been recorded 83 times by 77 different players to the start of the 2014 English cricket season. …

Laker, Anil Kumble and Ajaz Patel

have taken all ten in a Test innings.

Which bowler has taken 6 wickets in an over?

A ‘perfect over’ of 6 wickets taken with 6 consecutive balls was achieved by

Australian Aled Carey

on 21 January 2017 while bowling for Golden Point Cricket Club against East Ballarat Cricket Club in the Ballarat Cricket Association competition.

What’s the lowest Test score ever?

Team Score Opposition Australia

63

v England
Zimbabwe 63 v West Indies England 64 v New Zealand New Zealand 65 v England

What is India’s lowest score in ODI?

  • Tags.
  • Lowest score in ODIs.
  • ODI.

Who scored most 200 runs in Test cricket?

Former Australian batting maestro,

Sir Don Bradman

holds the record for scoring most double hundreds in Test Cricket. Bradman, who finished with a mind-boggling Test average of 99.94, registered 12 double centuries in his entire Test career.

What is a 4 in cricket?

Scoring runs

A boundary is the scoring of four or

six runs from a single delivery

, with the ball having left the field, and its first bounce having occurred either entirely within the playing field (in the case of four runs) or not (six runs); these events are known as a four or a six respectively.

Who is the fastest 50 in cricket?

Former India all

-rounder Yuvraj Singh

holds the record of smashing the fastest-ever fifty in T20Is. The flamboyant batsman had amassed 6 sixes in Stuart Broad’s over and scored his fifty of just 12 balls in the 2007 T20 World Cup.

Who hit longest six in cricket history?

No. 1 Player
Shahid Afridi
Team Pakistan Distance (metres) 158m (unofficial) Year 2013
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