Fastest bowlers to 100 Test wickets: Full list; Prabath Jayasuriya eyes 128-year record

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India rotation fable R Ashwin is among the fastest bowlers to grounds 100 Test wickets. (REUTERS)

Who is the fastest bowler to 100 Test wickets? It is simply a cricket statistical grounds that has highlighted the aforesaid sanction for astir 128 years. India’s Ravichandran Ashwin and Pakistan’s Yasir Shah came adjacent successful the modern era, but fell conscionable short.

England’s bowling pioneer George Lohmann, who featured successful lone 18 Tests, reached the magical 100 Test figures soon earlier his status successful 1896. Regarded among the premier right-arm pacers of his time, Lohmann reached 100 wickets successful his 16th Test and continues to clasp the grounds for the champion Test bowling mean (10.75) and onslaught complaint (34.1), for a min. 2000 balls bowled.

Sri Lanka’s Prabath Jayasuriya could interruption into the apical 2 oregon adjacent Lohmann’s long-standing feat should helium prime 12 wickets successful his 16th Test against New Zealand successful Galle.

Here are the fastest bowlers to scope 100 Test wickets

Mat	Player	Opposition	Ground	Match Date	Debut
16	George Lohmann (ENG)	v South Africa	Johannesburg	2 Mar 1896	5 Jul 1886
17	Charles Turner (AUS)	v England	Sydney	1 Feb 1895	28 Jan 1887
17	Sydney Barnes (ENG)	v Australia	Sydney	23 Feb 1912	13 Dec 1901
17	Clarrie Grimmett (AUS)	v West Indies	Brisbane	16 Jan 1931	27 Feb 1925
17	Yasir Shah (PAK)	v West Indies	Dubai (DICS)	13 Oct 2016	22 Oct 2014
18	R Ashwin (IND)	v West Indies	Wankhede	14 Nov 2013	6 Nov 2011
19	Colin Blythe (ENG)	v South Africa	Cape Town	11 Mar 1910	13 Dec 1901
19	Alfred Valentine (WI)	v England	Georgetown	24 Feb 1954	8 Jun 1950
19	Andy Roberts (WI)	v England	Leeds	22 Jul 1976	6 Mar 1974
19	Ian Botham (ENG)	v India	Lord’s	2 Aug 1979	28 Jul 1977
19	Saeed Ajmal (PAK)	v England	Abu Dhabi	25 Jan 2012	4 Jul 2009
19	Vernon Philander (SA)	v India	Johannesburg	18 Dec 2013	9 Nov 2011

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