Fastest to 700 Wickets in Test Cricket...
This achievement of taking 700 Test wickets in Test cricket, Sri Lankan off-spinner Muttiah Muralitharan and Australian leg-spinner Shane Warne, England's James Anderson. Although Muralitharan was the second bowler to reach this feat, it took him fewer matches to achieve this feat and he became the fastest bowler to take 700 Test wickets.
| Fastest 700 Wickets In Test Cricet | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pos | Player | Country | Matches | Time |
| 1 | Muttiah Muralitharan | Sri Lanka | 113 | 14y 317d |
| 2 | Shane Warne | Australia | 144 | 14y 358d |
| 3 | James Anderson | England | 187 | 20y 290d |
Q: Who is the fastest bowler to take 700 test wickets?
1: Muttiah muralitharan
Muttiah Muralitharan made his Test debut on 28 August 1992, Test career did not start well. It took him 27 Test matches to reach 100 wickets, but once he found his slot, he quickly moved up the pecking order and completely dominated. Despite his actions being questioned several times, Muraleedharan continued to prove his class and ability to the world.
In July 2007, Muralitharan scaled Mt 700 in Test cricket. He was playing against Bangladesh in a test match at Asgiriya Stadium in Kandy. He got his 700th wicket by dismissing Syed Russell. This was his 113th Test match making him the fastest to reach 700 wickets. Muralitharan not only holds the record for the fastest 700 Test wickets, but also 400, 500 and 600 Test wickets. In fact, it took him only 12 Test matches to go from 600 to 700.
When Muralitharan retired after 18 years of Test cricket, he took 800 wickets at an average of 22.72 and a bowling strike rate of 55.0. He has come back 67 times with five wickets and 22 times with 10 wickets in a match.
2: Shane Warne
Warne's Test career started on 2 January 1992. He was the first player to take 700 wickets in test cricket. The great Australian leg-spinner did this feat in 2006. He reached the 700-wicket mark in the 2005–06 Ashes and was found at the prestigious Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG). It was his 144th Test match and it was a distinctive delivery from Shane Warne that took him to the 700 mark. He bowled it beautifully and went past Andrew Strauss's defense to widen the leg-break and sent MCG into a tizzy. It took Warne only 16 Test matches to go from 600 to 700 Test wickets.
It took 23 Test matches to reach 100 wickets but he quickly climbed the ranks. Warne made his Test debut in 1992 and retired in 2007. After taking 37 five-wicket hauls in an innings and 10 wickets on 10 different occasions, it took Warne 144 matches to reach 700 wickets.
Warne was the leading Australian spinner and dominated world cricket in his era along with Muttiah Muralitharan and Anil Kumble. He returned with 708 wickets at an average of 25.41 and his bowling strike rate was 57.4.
By the time he retired, he had played 145 Test matches and had taken 708 wickets at an average of 25.41. He had the best bowling innings of 8/71 and best match-stats of 12/128.
3: James Anderson
Anderson made his Test debut against Zimbabwe in 2003, he is the third bowler in history to take 700 wickets in Test cricket. He achieved this feat by dismissing India's Kuldeep Yadav on the third day of the fifth Test in Dharamsala on 9 March 2024. James Anderson achieved this feat in 348 innings of 187 matches. Anderson also holds the world record for bowling the most balls as a fast bowler in Test cricket. In his 21-year long Test career, he has bowled 39877 balls, he has taken 10 wickets thrice.
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