Top 10 Players with most 10 wickets hauls in Test career

Top 10 Players with most 10 wickets hauls in Test career

No other bowler can top the spin magician Muttiah Muralitharan in many records, not in any near future for sure. Speak of the cricket records and you will find this man way above the rest. Most wickets in career, most wickets on a single ground, most five wicket hauls in career and most 10 wickets hauls as well. The legendary Sri Lankan is one of its kind in thousand cricket bowlers. The only player to touch the 800 mark in test cricket history has taken a total 0f 22 10 wicket hauls in his entire test format career. Now multiply the number of time he took 10 wickets with 22 and you’ll understand how effortlessly he managed to take 8000 test wickets.

Unlike many other great players holding some of the exceptionally admired records in cricket, Muttiah Muralitharan did not played excessive cricket. The former spinner only played 133 test matches in his career. Even though these are some great numbers considering the nature of their format but looking at the 800 wicket mark these seem nothing. The second player with most 10 wickets hauls in test career in no means is less than the top one. In fact it was Shane Warne who started the race for most test wickets which was eventually won by the Sri Lankan. Shane Warne took a total of ten 10 wickets hauls in his whole career.

Although the former Aussie has some great number of wickets on his name – less than a hundred fewer than Muralitharan, he never actually could compete with the Lankan in most 10 wickets hauls contest. The other reason why Muralitharan has got so many 10 wicket hauls in his career is his spin friendly home soil. Unlike Muralitharan, Shane Warne was an Australian with home grounds mostly favorable for the pacers. Still he managed to come next to the top bowler with most 10 wickets hauls in career.