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Wkts – Wickets taken in career; Ave. – Average runs per wicket; Econ. – Runs conceded per over; SR. – Number of balls bowled per wicket taken; BBI – Best bowling in an innings; BBM – Best bowling in a match; 5WI – Five or more wickets in an innings; 10WM – Ten or more wickets in a match; Period – Cricketing career of the player
Alan Davidson (Australia), in the tied 1st Test at Brisbane against the West Indies in 1960–61, was the first man to score 100 runs and take 10 wickets in a match (and is the only other player to achieve this so far), but without a century: his two scores with the bat were 44 and 80, in addition to 11 wickets (5/135 and 6/87).
He had a haul of 5/63 in the second innings of the second Test at Hyderabad, where India registered an innings win and took four wickets in the third Test at Mohali, where India sealed the series with a six-wicket victory. In the last match at Delhi, he took 5/57 and 2/55 in another Indian win which completed a 4–0 whitewash of Australia.
Australia skittled Pakistan on a treacherous Perth pitch to record a thumping 360-run victory in the first test inside four days with Nathan Lyon achieving the elusive landmark of 500 test wickets ...
In March, in the first Test of a three-Test series against Sri Lanka in Galle, he became the second cricketer after Courtney Walsh to take 500 Test wickets. [142] Warne took five wickets in each innings of the first and second Tests, and a further six wickets in the third Test, and was named the player of the series. [143]
First bowler to take 500 ODI wickets and still holds the record for taking the most ODI wickets as seamer (502) [115] Wasim Akram is the person to grab 100+ ODI wickets at the same ground. He jointly holds the record for taking the most wickets in ODI history at a single ground (122 at Sharjah Cricket Stadium ), tied with Shakib Al Hasan . [ 116 ]
He shared 421 Test wickets with Ambrose in 49 matches. [3] He held the record of most Test wickets from 2000, after he broke the record of Kapil Dev. This record was later broken in 2004 by Shane Warne. He was the first bowler to reach 500 wickets in Test cricket. [4] His autobiography is entitled "Heart of the Lion".
With the entry of more countries into Test cricket, and a wish by the ICC to maintain public interest in Tests in the face of the popularity of One Day International cricket, a rotation system was introduced that sees all ten Test teams playing each other over a six-year cycle, and an official ranking system (with a trophy held by the highest ...