page_title: List of Australia Test cricket records
section_title: Most wickets in a series
hierarchical_section_title: List of Australia Test cricket records / Individual records / Bowling records / Most wickets in a series
caption_attribution_description: Australian cricketer Clarie Grimmett, (1891 - 1980), (Clarence Victor Grimmett).
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. Australia was a founding member of the ICC having played the first Test match against England in March 1877 at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. They have played a total of 830 matches, second only to England who have played just over 1,000. As of January 2020, Australia is the most successful team in Test cricket with an overall winning percentage of 47.34, ahead of their nearest rival South Africa on 37.75.
  Top order batsman and former captain Don Bradman holds several batting records. Considered to be the greatest batsman of all time, he played 52 Tests between 1928 and 1948. He holds the record for the highest Test average of 99.94, has scored the most Test double centuries with 12, the equal most Test triple centuries with 2 and the most runs scored in a series with 974 during the 1930 Ashes series.
context_section_description: England's seventh Test tour of South Africa in 1913–14 saw the record set for the most wickets taken by a bowler in a Test series. English paceman Sydney Barnes played in four of the five matches and achieved a total of 49 wickets to his name. Jim Laker sits second on the list with 46 wickets taken during the 1956 Ashes series. Australia's Clarrie Grimmett is third with his 44 wickets taken against South Africa during the 1935–36 tour.
caption: Clarrie Grimmett took 44 wickets in the 1935–36 series against South Africa, the most by any Australian cricketer in a series.[179]
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