{"id":58506,"date":"2024-04-16T01:20:45","date_gmt":"2024-04-16T01:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/exam.pscnotes.com\/mcq\/?p=58506"},"modified":"2024-04-16T01:20:45","modified_gmt":"2024-04-16T01:20:45","slug":"who-has-taken-the-highest-number-of-wickets-in-test-cricket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/exam.pscnotes.com\/mcq\/who-has-taken-the-highest-number-of-wickets-in-test-cricket\/","title":{"rendered":"Who has taken the highest number of wickets in Test Cricket ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[amp_mcq option1=&#8221;Muttiah Muralitharan&#8221; option2=&#8221;Shane Warne&#8221; option3=&#8221;Anil Kumble&#8221; option4=&#8221;Shoaib Akhtar&#8221; correct=&#8221;option1&#8243;]<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Muttiah Muralitharan has taken the highest number of wickets in Test Cricket. He is a Sri Lankan cricketer who played from 1992 to 2011. He is the highest wicket-taker in both Test and One Day International (ODI) cricket. He is also the only bowler to have taken more than 800 wickets in Test cricket.<\/p>\n<p>Shane Warne is an Australian cricketer who played from 1992 to 2007. He is the second-highest wicket-taker in Test cricket. He is also the only bowler to have taken more than 700 wickets in Test cricket.<\/p>\n<p>Anil Kumble is an Indian cricketer who played from 1990 to 2008. He is the third-highest wicket-taker in Test cricket. He is also the only Indian bowler to have taken more than 600 wickets in Test cricket.<\/p>\n<p>Shoaib Akhtar is a Pakistani cricketer who played from 1996 to 2011. He is the fourth-highest wicket-taker in Test cricket for Pakistan. He is also the fastest bowler to have bowled a ball at over 100 miles per hour.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a table showing the top 10 wicket-takers in Test cricket:<\/p>\n<p>Rank | Player | Country | Wickets | Bowling average | Bowling strike rate<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;- | &#8212;&#8212;&#8211; | &#8212;&#8212;&#8211; | &#8212;&#8212;&#8211; | &#8212;&#8212;&#8211; | &#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<br \/>\n1 | Muttiah Muralitharan | Sri Lanka | 800 | 22.94 | 52.43<br \/>\n2 | Shane Warne | Australia | 708 | 25.41 | 57.33<br \/>\n3 | Anil Kumble | India | 619 | 29.65 | 56.33<br \/>\n4 | James Anderson | England | 614 | 26.21 | 57.03<br \/>\n5 | Glenn McGrath | Australia | 563 | 21.64 | 51.85<br \/>\n6 | Dale Steyn | South Africa | 439 | 22.95 | 42.13<br \/>\n7 | Richard Hadlee | New Zealand | 431 | 22.20 | 51.32<br \/>\n8 | Wasim Akram | Pakistan | 414 | 23.34 | 55.66<br \/>\n9 | Kapil Dev | India | 434 | 29.65 | 52.43<br \/>\n10 | Imran Khan | Pakistan | 362 | 22.81 | 52.01<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[amp_mcq option1=&#8221;Muttiah Muralitharan&#8221; option2=&#8221;Shane Warne&#8221; option3=&#8221;Anil Kumble&#8221; option4=&#8221;Shoaib Akhtar&#8221; correct=&#8221;option1&#8243;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","no-featured-image-padding"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.2 (Yoast SEO v23.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Who has taken the highest number of wickets in Test Cricket ?<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/exam.pscnotes.com\/mcq\/who-has-taken-the-highest-number-of-wickets-in-test-cricket\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Who has taken the highest number of wickets in Test Cricket ?\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"[amp_mcq option1=&#8221;Muttiah Muralitharan&#8221; option2=&#8221;Shane Warne&#8221; option3=&#8221;Anil Kumble&#8221; option4=&#8221;Shoaib Akhtar&#8221; correct=&#8221;option1&#8243;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/exam.pscnotes.com\/mcq\/who-has-taken-the-highest-number-of-wickets-in-test-cricket\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"MCQ and Quiz for Exams\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2024-04-16T01:20:45+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"rawan239\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"rawan239\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Who has taken the highest number of wickets in Test Cricket ?","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/exam.pscnotes.com\/mcq\/who-has-taken-the-highest-number-of-wickets-in-test-cricket\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Who has taken the highest number of wickets in Test Cricket ?","og_description":"[amp_mcq option1=&#8221;Muttiah Muralitharan&#8221; option2=&#8221;Shane Warne&#8221; option3=&#8221;Anil Kumble&#8221; option4=&#8221;Shoaib Akhtar&#8221; correct=&#8221;option1&#8243;]","og_url":"https:\/\/exam.pscnotes.com\/mcq\/who-has-taken-the-highest-number-of-wickets-in-test-cricket\/","og_site_name":"MCQ and Quiz for Exams","article_published_time":"2024-04-16T01:20:45+00:00","author":"rawan239","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"rawan239","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/exam.pscnotes.com\/mcq\/who-has-taken-the-highest-number-of-wickets-in-test-cricket\/","url":"https:\/\/exam.pscnotes.com\/mcq\/who-has-taken-the-highest-number-of-wickets-in-test-cricket\/","name":"Who has taken the highest number of wickets in Test Cricket ?","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/exam.pscnotes.com\/mcq\/#website"},"datePublished":"2024-04-16T01:20:45+00:00","dateModified":"2024-04-16T01:20:45+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/exam.pscnotes.com\/mcq\/#\/schema\/person\/5807dafeb27d2ec82344d6cbd6c3d209"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/exam.pscnotes.com\/mcq\/who-has-taken-the-highest-number-of-wickets-in-test-cricket\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/exam.pscnotes.com\/mcq\/who-has-taken-the-highest-number-of-wickets-in-test-cricket\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/exam.pscnotes.com\/mcq\/who-has-taken-the-highest-number-of-wickets-in-test-cricket\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/exam.pscnotes.com\/mcq\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"mcq","item":"https:\/\/exam.pscnotes.com\/mcq\/category\/mcq\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Sports","item":"https:\/\/exam.pscnotes.com\/mcq\/category\/mcq\/sports\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":4,"name":"Who has taken the highest number of wickets in Test Cricket ?"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/exam.pscnotes.com\/mcq\/#website","url":"https:\/\/exam.pscnotes.com\/mcq\/","name":"MCQ and Quiz for Exams","description":"","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/exam.pscnotes.com\/mcq\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/exam.pscnotes.com\/mcq\/#\/schema\/person\/5807dafeb27d2ec82344d6cbd6c3d209","name":"rawan239","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/exam.pscnotes.com\/mcq\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/761a7274f9cce048fa5b921221e7934820d74514df93ef195a9d22af0c1c9001?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/761a7274f9cce048fa5b921221e7934820d74514df93ef195a9d22af0c1c9001?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"rawan239"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/exam.pscnotes.com"],"url":"https:\/\/exam.pscnotes.com\/mcq\/author\/rawan239\/"}]}},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/exam.pscnotes.com\/mcq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/exam.pscnotes.com\/mcq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/exam.pscnotes.com\/mcq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exam.pscnotes.com\/mcq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exam.pscnotes.com\/mcq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/exam.pscnotes.com\/mcq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exam.pscnotes.com\/mcq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exam.pscnotes.com\/mcq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exam.pscnotes.com\/mcq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}