Most Test wickets: R Ashwin (centre), Ravindra Jadeja (left) and Jasprit Bumrah fertile wrong the apical 14 wicket-takers for India. (Sportzpics)
India person produced champion bowlers successful Test cricket passim its 92-year travel successful the agelong format.
From the aboriginal days of stalwarts Vinoo Mankad, Bishan Singh Bedi and Kapil Dev to the modern epoch of Anil Kumble, R Ashwin and Zaheer Khan, respective bowlers person racked up awesome numbers passim their Test career. While India’s existent gait onslaught ranks among the champion they person ever produced, Kapil Dev inactive leads the seamers’ charts with 434 wickets. The legendary Kumble continues to clasp the grounds for astir Test wickets for India adjacent aft 16 years of his retirement. Kumble scalped 619 Test wickets from 132 appearances, the fourth-highest ever successful Test cricket.
Meanwhile, off-spin wizard Ravichandran Ashwin is closing connected Kumble’s tally, having reached 522 wickets successful 101 games. Among progressive players, Ashwin is followed by left-arm spinner Ravindra Jadeja, who is 1 abbreviated of completing 300 wickets. Jadeja tin go lone the seventh Indian to transverse 300 Test wickets during the 2nd Test against Bangladesh successful Kanpur.
Mohammad Shami (229) and Jasprit Bumrah (164) are the different progressive India players wrong the apical 15.
Here is simply a look astatine the apical 15 highest Test wicket-takers for India
Player | Span | Matches | Wickkts | Best Bowling | Ave | SR | 5w |
Anil Kumble | 1990-2008 | 132 | 619 | 10/74 | 29.65 | 65.99 | 35 |
R Ashwin | 2011-2024 | 101 | 522 | 7/59 | 23.7 | 50.51 | 37 |
Kapil Dev | 1978-1994 | 131 | 434 | 9/83 | 29.64 | 63.91 | 23 |
Harbhajan Singh | 1998-2015 | 103 | 417 | 8/84 | 32.46 | 68.53 | 25 |
Ishant Sharma | 2007-2021 | 105 | 311 | 7/74 | 32.4 | 61.6 | 11 |
Zaheer Khan | 2000-2014 | 92 | 311 | 7/87 | 32.94 | 60.4 | 11 |
Ravindra Jadeja | 2012-2024 | 73 | 299 | 7/42 | 23.98 | 58.1 | 13 |
Bishan Singh Bedi | 1966-1979 | 67 | 266 | 7/98 | 28.71 | 80.31 | 14 |
B Chandrasekhar | 1964-1979 | 58 | 242 | 8/79 | 29.74 | 65.96 | 16 |
Javagal Srinath | 1991-2002 | 67 | 236 | 8/86 | 30.49 | 64 | 10 |
Mohammed Shami | 2013-2023 | 64 | 229 | 6/56 | 27.71 | 50.28 | 6 |
Erapalli Prasanna | 1962-1978 | 49 | 189 | 8/76 | 30.38 | 75.94 | 10 |
Umesh Yadav | 2011-2023 | 57 | 170 | 6/88 | 30.95 | 52.81 | 3 |
Jasprit Bumrah | 2018-2024 | 37 | 164 | 6/27 | 20.51 | 44.56 | 10 |
Vinoo Mankad | 1946-1959 | 44 | 162 | 8/52 | 32.32 | 90.65 | 8 |