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In the game of cricket, it is difficult for the batsman to score a century, so to get a 5-cicat hall for the bowler. ODI and T20 matches can be won with only 10 wickets, but there are 2 innings in the Test match. Due to these 2 innings, the same bowler can take 20 wickets in the Test match. But has this ever happened in Test cricket when a bowler has taken 20 wickets in a single match? See here the list of top-5 bowlers who took the most wickets in the same Test.
Most wickets in a Test match
In the history of Test cricket, no bowler has been able to take a full 20 wickets in a match so far, but England’s gym Charles (with gym) took 19 wickets. This record is his name for the last 69 years, James took 19 wickets in the match against Australia in 1956. He dismissed 9 in the first innings and all 10 Australia batsmen in the second innings. Prior to him, the record of taking the most wickets in a Test was the name of Sydney Barns of England, who took 17 wickets in the same match against South Africa in 1913.
India’s Narendra Hirwani is at number three in this list. Apart from him, Robert Arnold Masi of Australia and Muttiah Muralitharan of Sri Lanka have taken 16-wickets in the same Test match.
- Jim Lak (England)- 20 wickets
- Sydney Barns (England) – 17 wickets
- Narendra Hirwani (India) – 16 wickets
- Robert Arnold Masi (Australia) – 16 wickets
- Muttiah Muralitharan (Sri Lanka) – 16 wickets
The highest wicket for India in a Test
Narendra Hirwani has the highest number of wickets for India in a single Test match, he took 16 wickets against West Indies in 1988. He took eight wickets each in both innings of that match. After him, the name of Harbhajan Singh comes in the list of Indians, who has taken 15 wickets in a single match. Anil Kumble has done the feat of taking 13-13 wickets in the same match.
- Narendra Hirwani – 16 wickets
- Harbhajan Singh – 15 wickets
- Anil Kumble – 14 wickets
- Veenu Mankad – 13 wickets
- Jawagal Srinath – 13 wickets
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