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Home  »  Cricket  »  India  »  Records  »  Most Wickets in Test for India

Most Wickets in Test for India

Anil Kumble tops the list of India's highest wicket-takers in TESTs, with a record 619 wickets in 132 matches at an economy of 2.69. Ravichandran Ashwin follows with 537 wickets in 106 matches, including a best of 7/59. Kapil Dev is third, claiming 434 wickets in 131 matches, while legends like Harbhajan Singh (417 wickets) and Ravindra Jadeja (323 wickets) round out the top five. These bowlers have been instrumental in India's TEST success over the years. Here is the list of Indian players with the most wickets in TEST history.
# Player Matches Inn Runs Wickets Best Economy
1 Anil Kumble 132 236 18,355 619 10/74 2.69
2 Ravichandran Ashwin 106 200 12,891 537 7/59 2.83
3 Kapil Dev 131 227 12,867 434 9/83 2.78
4 Harbhajan Singh 103 190 13,537 417 8/84 2.84
5 Ravindra Jadeja 80 150 7,798 323 7/42 2.53
6 Ishant Sharma 105 188 10,078 311 7/74 3.15
7 Zaheer Khan 92 165 10,247 311 7/87 3.27
8 Bishen Bedi 67 118 7,637 266 7/98 2.14
9 Bhagwat Chandrasekhar 58 97 7,199 242 8/79 2.70
10 Javagal Srinath 67 121 7,196 236 8/86 2.85
11 Mohammed Shami 64 122 6,346 229 6/56 3.30
12 Jasprit Bumrah 45 86 3,977 205 6/27 2.76
13 Erapally Prasanna 49 86 5,742 189 8/76 2.40
14 Umesh Yadav 57 112 5,263 170 6/88 3.51
15 Mulvantrai Mankad 44 70 5,236 162 8/52 2.13
16 Srinivas Venkataraghavan 57 96 5,634 156 8/72 2.27
17 Ravishankar Shastri 80 125 6,185 151 5/75 2.35
18 Subhash Gupte 36 61 4,403 149 9/102 2.34
19 Dilip Doshi 33 55 3,502 114 6/102 2.25
20 Pragyan Ojha 24 48 3,420 113 6/47 2.68
21 Karsan Ghavri 39 69 3,656 109 5/33 3.11
22 NS Yadav 35 61 3,580 102 5/76 2.56
23 Mohammed Siraj 36 67 3,074 100 6/15 3.47
24 Irfan Pathan 29 54 3,226 100 7/59 3.28
25 BKV Prasad 33 58 3,360 96 6/33 2.86
26 Manoj Prabhakar 39 68 3,581 96 6/132 2.87
27 SLV Raju 28 51 2,857 93 6/12 2.25
28 RG Nadkarni 41 65 2,559 88 6/43 1.67
29 Maninder Singh 35 52 3,288 88 7/27 2.40
30 Sreesanth 27 50 3,271 87 5/40 3.62
31 Amit Mishra 22 40 2,715 76 5/71 3.19
32 Salim Durani 29 46 2,657 75 6/73 2.47
33 Ramakant Desai 28 45 2,761 74 6/56 2.95
34 Sharma Madan Lal 39 63 2,846 71 5/23 2.84
35 Ghulam Ahmed 22 36 2,052 68 7/49 2.17
36 Narendra Hirwani 17 28 1,987 66 8/61 2.77
37 Bhuvneshwar Kumar 21 37 1,644 63 6/82 2.94
38 Dattaray Phadkar 31 48 2,285 62 7/159 2.28
39 Chetan Sharma 23 39 2,163 61 6/58 3.74
40 Ajit Agarkar 26 46 2,745 58 6/41 3.39
41 Kuldeep Yadav 13 24 1,241 56 5/40 3.55
42 Axar Patel 14 27 1,064 55 6/38 2.51
43 Chandu Borde 55 54 2,417 52 5/88 2.54
44 Roger Binny 27 38 1,534 47 6/56 3.20
45 Rajesh Chauhan 21 34 1,857 47 4/48 2.34
46 S Abid Ali 29 49 1,980 47 6/55 2.85
47 Sachin Tendulkar 200 145 2,492 46 3/10 3.52
48 Lala Amarnath 24 35 1,481 45 5/96 2.09
49 Ashish Nehra 17 29 1,866 44 4/72 3.24
50 Rusi Surti 26 45 1,962 42 5/74 3.04
51 Arshad Ayub 13 22 1,438 41 5/50 2.35
52 Sunil Joshi 15 26 1,470 41 5/142 2.55
53 Gulabrai Ramchand 33 56 1,899 41 6/49 2.28
54 RP Singh 14 25 1,682 40 5/59 3.98
55 Virender Sehwag 103 91 1,894 40 5/104 3.04
56 MM Patel 13 25 1,349 35 4/25 3.04
57 Polly Umrigar 59 50 1,473 35 6/74 1.87
58 Sourav Ganguly 113 99 1,681 32 3/28 3.23
59 Mohinder Amarnath 69 71 1,782 32 4/63 2.90
60 Shardul Thakur 11 19 880 31 7/61 3.64
61 JM Patel 7 11 637 29 9/69 2.21
62 Ladha Amar Singh 7 13 858 28 7/86 2.35
63 P Kumar 6 11 697 27 5/106 2.59
64 Lakshmipathy Balaji 8 15 1,004 27 5/76 3.43
65 Surendranath 11 17 1,053 26 5/75 2.42
66 Laxman Sivaramakrishnan 9 16 1,145 26 6/64 2.90
67 Washington Sundar 9 16 641 25 7/59 3.27
68 Mahomed Nissar 6 11 707 25 5/90 3.50
69 A Kuruvilla 10 15 892 25 5/68 3.03
70 Murali Kartik 8 15 820 24 4/44 2.54
71 Vijay Hazare 30 43 1,220 20 4/29 2.57
72 VB Ranjane 7 13 649 19 4/72 3.07
73 Varun Aaron 9 14 947 18 3/97 4.77
74 ED Solkar 27 44 1,070 18 3/28 2.83
75 Hardik Pandya 11 19 528 17 5/28 3.38
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