page_title: List of Pakistan Test cricket records
section_title: Most career wickets
hierarchical_section_title: List of Pakistan Test cricket records / Individual records / Bowling records / Most career wickets
caption_attribution_description: English: Wasim Akram, the former Pakistan cricket team captain, after retirement from test cricket in 2002 and ODI 2003.
context_page_description: Test cricket is the oldest form of cricket played at international level. A Test match is scheduled to take place over a period of five days, and is played by teams representing Full Member nations of the International Cricket Council. Pakistan obtained Full Member status of the ICC in 1952, becoming the seventh nation eligible to play Test cricket. The Pakistan national cricket team played their first Test match on 16 October 1952 against India which they lost by an innings and 70 runs. They recorded their first victory in their second ever match against India on 23 October 1952. Since then, they have played 421 matches, against every other Test-playing nation. As of December 2018, Pakistan is the fourth-most successful team in Test cricket with an overall winning percentage of 32.01, behind Australia, South Africa and England.
  Top order batsman and former captain Younis Khan holds several Pakistan batting records. He has scored the most runs for Pakistan in Test cricket—the first and only player to score over 10,000 runs in the format for his country. He is the record holder for the highest number of centuries as well as the highest number of double centuries for Pakistan.
context_section_description: A bowler takes the wicket of a batsman when the form of dismissal is bowled, caught, leg before wicket, stumped or hit wicket. If the batsman is dismissed by run out, obstructing the field, handling the ball, hitting the ball twice or timed out the bowler does not receive credit.
  Shane Warne held the record for the most Test wickets with 708 until December 2007 when Sri Lankan bowler Muttiah Muralitharan passed Warne's milestone. Muralitharan, who continued to play until 2010, finished with 800 wickets to his name. India's Anil Kumble is third on the list taking 610 wickets and Glenn McGrath of Australia with 563 holds the record for most wickets by a fast bowler in Test cricket. Wasim Akram is the highest wicket taker for Pakistan with 414.
caption: Wasim Akram has taken the most Test wickets (414) for Pakistan.
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