List of Test cricket records
Career

List of Test cricket records

Section Title: Career
Table Section Text: None

Wickets	Player	Matches	Average	Record held until	Duration of record

8	England Alfred Shaw	1	10.75	31 March 1877	16 days

14	Australia Tom Kendall	2	15.35	4 January 1879	1 year, 279 days

94	Australia Fred Spofforth	18	18.41	12 January 1895	16 years, 8 days

100	England Johnny Briggs	25	13.51	4 February 1895	33 days

101	Australia Charles Turner	17	16.53	2 March 1895	26 days

103	England Johnny Briggs	26	13.92	21 March 1896	1 year, 19 days

112	England George Lohmann	18	10.75	14 January 1898	1 year, 299 days

118	England Johnny Briggs	33	17.75	2 January 1904	5 years, 353 days

141	Australia Hugh Trumble	32	21.78	13 December 1913	9 years, 345 days

189	England Sydney Barnes	27	16.43	4 January 1936	22 years, 22 days

216	Australia Clarrie Grimmett	37	24.21	24 July 1953	17 years, 201 days

236	England Alec Bedser	51	24.89	26 January 1963	9 years, 186 days

242	England Brian Statham	67	24.27	15 March 1963	48 days

307	England Fred Trueman	67	21.57	1 February 1976	12 years, 323 days

309	West Indies Cricket Board Lance Gibbs	79	29.09	27 December 1981	5 years, 329 days

355	Australia Dennis Lillee	70	23.92	21 August 1986	4 years, 237 days

373	England Ian Botham	94	27.86	12 November 1988	2 years, 83 days

431	New Zealand Richard Hadlee	86	22.29	8 February 1994	5 years, 88 days

434	India Kapil Dev	131	29.64	27 March 2000	6 years, 48 days

519	West Indies Cricket Board Courtney Walsh	132	24.44	8 May 2004	4 years, 42 days

532	Sri Lanka Muttiah Muralitharan	91	22.87	15 October 2004	160 days

708	Australia Shane Warne	145	25.41	3 December 2007	3 years, 49 days

800	Sri Lanka Muttiah Muralitharan	133	22.72	Current	11 years, 142 days

Notes ^[a] Allen Hill took the first Test wicket, but only two in the First Test match. Alfred Shaw (3/51 & 5/35) and Tom Kendall (1/54 & 7/55) both took eight wickets, but as Australia batted first Shaw was the first to take five wickets in an innings and the first to take eight Test wickets.

Sentence(s)

Alec Bedser passed Clarrie Grimmett's world record for Test wickets.
Alec Bedser passed Clarrie Grimmett's world record for Test wickets.
Alec Bedser passed Clarrie Grimmett's record for Test wickets.

final_sentence: Alec Bedser passed Clarrie Grimmett's world record for Test wickets.
final_sentence: Alec Bedser passed Clarrie Grimmett's world record for Test wickets.
final_sentence: Alec Bedser passed Clarrie Grimmett's record for Test wickets.