Most Career Wickets in Test Cricket — All Time

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Most Career Wickets in Test Cricket — All Time

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Muttiah Muralitharan (Sri Lanka) leads in Test Cricket Wickets with 800.

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Average Test Cricket Wickets: 619 · median: 612.

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Gap: Muttiah Muralitharan (Sri Lanka) is 1.8× larger than Kapil Dev (India).

About This Dataset

Most Career Wickets in Test Cricket — All Time

Bowlers ranked by total career wickets taken in Test match cricket according to ICC official records. Muttiah Muralitharan of Sri Lanka holds the all-time Test wickets record with 800 wickets — a figure so far ahead of the next bowler that many cricket analysts consider it statistically unreachable, taken across 133 Tests between 1992 and 2010 with an extraordinary variety of off-spin deliveries including his unique doosra.

Analysis

Muttiah Muralitharan (Sri Lanka) heads the table on 800, ahead of Shane Warne (Australia) (708) and James Anderson (England) (704) in Test Cricket Wickets. 366 separates the highest figure (800) from the lowest (434) in Test Cricket Wickets. First and second are separated by 92, so the leader sits inside the field rather than apart from it. Places 3 to 8 are close together, spanning 704 to 434 Test Cricket Wickets.

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Data Points

8 categories · 1 year

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Top Value

800

Muttiah Muralitharan (Sri Lanka)

Test Cricket Wickets · All Time

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Test Cricket Wickets

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All Time

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Methodology & source

Data source: Wikipedia
Coverage: 8 entities · 8 observations
Measure: Test Cricket Wickets
Last updated: 6 September 2026
Compiled by: The ANYSTAT team, from the source above

How the figures are calculated

Values use the measure and unit named on this page. Consult the dataset description and cited source for coverage, definitions and any unit conversions. Displayed values may be rounded for readability.
Entities are ranked highest-first on their value.

Rankings & Full Data

8 records · Test Cricket Wickets · ranked by All Time

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#	Category	All Time
🥇	Muttiah Muralitharan (Sri Lanka)	800
🥈	Shane Warne (Australia)	708
🥉	James Anderson (England)	704
4	Anil Kumble (India)	619
5	Stuart Broad (England)	604
6	Glenn McGrath (Australia)	563
7	Courtney Walsh (West Indies)	519
8	Kapil Dev (India)	434

Data Sources & References

All external sources cited in this dataset

1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muttiah_Muralitharan Visit ↗

2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shane_Warne Visit ↗

3 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anil_Kumble Visit ↗

4 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Anderson_(cricketer) Visit ↗

5 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_McGrath Visit ↗

6 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Courtney_Walsh Visit ↗

7 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart_Broad Visit ↗

8 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kapil_Dev Visit ↗

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