List of first-class cricket records
Most wickets in a career
Qualification: 2,400.

List of first-class cricket records

Section Title: Most wickets in a career
Table Section Text: Qualification: 2,400.

Wickets	Player	Matches	Average	Career span

4,204 wickets	Wilfred Rhodes (Yorkshire and England)	1110	16.72	from 1898 to 1930

3,776 wickets	Tich Freeman (Kent and England)	592	18.42	from 1914 to 1936

3,278 wickets	Charlie Parker (Gloucestershire and England)	635	19.46	from 1903 to 1935

3,061 wickets	Jack Hearne (Middlesex and England)	639	17.75	from 1888 to 1914 (plus one match in 1921 and another in 1923)

2,979 wickets	Tom Goddard (Gloucestershire and England)	593	19.84	from 1922 to 1952

2,874 wickets	Alec Kennedy (Hampshire and England)	677	21.23	from 1907 to 1936

2,857 wickets	Derek Shackleton (Hampshire and England)	647	18.65	from 1948 to 1969

2,844 wickets	Tony Lock (Surrey, Leicestershire, England and Western Australia)	654	19.23	from 1946 to 1970–71

2,830 wickets	Fred Titmus (Middlesex and England)	792	22.37	from 1949 to 1980 (plus one match in 1982)

2,809 wickets	W. G. Grace (Gloucestershire, London County and England)	870	18.14	from 1865 to 1908

2,784 wickets	Maurice Tate (Sussex and England)	679	18.16	from 1912 to 1937

2,742 wickets	George Hirst (Yorkshire and England)	826	18.73	from 1891 to 1921–2 (plus one match in 1929)

2,503 wickets	Colin "Charlie" Blythe (Kent and England)	439	16.81	from 1899 to 1914

2,465 wickets	Derek Underwood (Kent and England)	676	20.28	from 1963 to 1987

2,432 wickets	Ewart Astill (Leicestershire and England)	733	23.76	from 1906 to 1939

Source: Cricket Archive. Last updated: 8 June 2006.

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Lock took 2,844 first-class wickets.

final_sentence: Lock took 2,844 first-class wickets.