Most Career Test Wickets for each Nation
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Afghanistan
  Name Mat Balls Wkts Avg S/R 5i/10m Best
1 Rashid Khan 5 1534 34 22.35 45.1 4/2 7-138
2 Amir Hamza 4 984 18 28.72 54.7 2/0 6-76
3 Yamin Ahmadzai 6 669 13 28.00 51.5 0/0 3-42
4 Zahir Khan 5 672 11 48.09 61.1 0/0 3-60
5 Nijat Masood 3 419 9 34.22 46.6 1/0 5-80
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Australia
  Name Mat Balls Wkts Avg S/R 5i/10m Best
1 SK Warne 145 40705 708 25.41 57.5 37/10 8-72
2 GD McGrath 124 29248 563 21.64 52.0 29/3 8-25
3 NM Lyon 129 32761 530 30.29 61.8 24/5 8-51
4 MA Starc 89 17417 358 27.74 48.7 14/2 6-51
5 DK Lillee 70 18467 355 23.92 52.0 23/7 7-84
6 MG Johnson 73 16001 313 28.40 51.1 12/3 8-62
7 B Lee 76 16531 310 30.81 53.3 10/0 5-31
8 CJ McDermott 71 16586 291 28.63 57.0 14/2 8-98
9 JR Hazlewood 70 14577 273 24.82 53.4 12/0 6-68
10 PJ Cummins 62 12614 269 22.53 46.9 12/2 6-24
11 JN Gillespie 71 14234 259 26.13 55.0 8/0 7-38
12 R Benaud 63 19108 248 27.03 77.0 16/1 7-73
13 GD McKenzie 60 17681 246 29.78 71.9 16/3 8-72
14 RR Lindwall 61 13650 228 23.03 59.9 12/0 7-39
15 PM Siddle 67 13907 221 30.66 62.9 8/0 6-55
16 CV Grimmett 37 14513 216 24.21 67.2 21/7 7-41
17 MG Hughes 53 12285 212 28.38 57.9 7/1 8-88
18 SCG MacGill 44 11237 208 29.02 54.0 12/2 8-109
19 JR Thomson 51 10535 200 28.00 52.7 8/0 6-47
20 AK Davidson 44 11587 186 20.53 62.3 14/2 7-94
21 GF Lawson 46 11118 180 30.56 61.8 11/2 8-113
22 KR Miller 55 10461 170 22.97 61.5 7/1 7-61
= TM Alderman 41 10181 170 27.15 59.9 14/1 6-48
24 WA Johnston 40 11048 160 23.91 69.1 7/0 6-45
25 WJ O'Reilly 27 10024 144 22.59 69.6 11/3 7-55
26 H Trumble 32 8099 141 21.78 57.4 9/3 8-66
27 MHN Walker 34 10094 138 27.47 73.1 6/0 8-144
28 AA Mallett 38 9990 132 29.84 75.7 6/1 8-60
29 B Yardley 33 8909 126 31.63 70.7 6/1 7-99
30 RM Hogg 38 7633 123 28.47 62.1 6/2 6-75
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Bangladesh
  Name Mat Balls Wkts Avg S/R 5i/10m Best
1 Shakib Al Hasan 71 15675 246 31.72 63.7 19/2 7-37
2 Taijul Islam 49 13107 209 31.95 62.7 14/2 8-40
3 Mehidy Hasan Miraz 49 11696 185 33.54 63.2 10/2 7-59
4 Mohammad Rafique 33 8744 100 40.76 87.4 7/0 6-78
5 Mashrafe Mortaza 36 5990 78 41.52 76.8 0/0 4-61
6 Shahadat Hossain 38 5380 72 51.81 74.7 4/0 6-28
7 Enamul Haque jnr 15 3549 44 40.61 80.7 3/1 7-96
8 Mahmudullah 50 3423 43 45.53 79.6 1/0 5-52
9 Ebadot Hossain 20 3317 42 47.14 79.0 1/0 6-47
10 Sohag Gazi 10 3151 38 42.07 82.9 2/0 6-75
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England
  Name Mat Balls Wkts Avg S/R 5i/10m Best
1 JM Anderson 188 40037 704 26.45 56.9 32/3 7-43
2 SCJ Broad 167 33698 604 27.68 55.8 20/3 8-16
3 IT Botham 102 21815 383 28.40 57.0 27/4 8-35
4 RGD Willis 90 17357 325 25.20 53.4 16/0 8-44
5 FS Trueman 67 15178 307 21.57 49.4 17/3 8-32
6 DL Underwood 86 21862 297 25.83 73.6 17/6 8-52
7 GP Swann 60 15349 255 29.96 60.2 17/3 6-66
8 JB Statham 70 16056 252 24.84 63.7 9/1 7-40
9 MJ Hoggard 67 13909 248 30.50 56.1 7/1 7-62
10 AV Bedser 51 15918 236 24.89 67.4 15/5 7-45
11 AR Caddick 62 13558 234 29.91 57.9 13/1 7-47
12 D Gough 58 11821 229 28.39 51.6 9/0 6-43
13 SJ Harmison 62 13192 222 31.94 59.4 8/1 7-13
14 A Flintoff 78 14747 219 33.34 67.3 3/0 5-59
15 MM Ali 68 12610 204 37.31 61.8 5/1 6-54
16 BA Stokes 107 11855 203 32.21 58.4 4/0 6-23
17 JA Snow 49 12021 202 26.66 59.5 8/1 7-41
18 JC Laker 46 12027 193 21.24 62.3 9/3 10-54
19 SF Barnes 27 7873 189 16.43 41.7 24/7 9-104
20 ARC Fraser 46 10876 177 27.32 61.4 13/2 8-54
21 CR Woakes 55 9797 175 28.21 56.0 5/1 6-18
22 GAR Lock 49 13147 174 25.58 75.6 9/3 7-36
23 MS Panesar 50 12475 167 34.71 74.7 12/2 6-38
24 MW Tate 39 12523 155 26.16 80.8 7/1 6-43
25 FJ Titmus 53 15118 153 32.22 98.8 7/0 7-80
26 JE Emburey 64 15391 147 38.40 104.7 6/0 7-79
27 H Verity 40 11173 144 24.37 77.6 5/2 8-44
28 CM Old 46 8858 143 28.11 61.9 4/0 7-51
= AF Giles 54 12180 143 40.60 85.2 5/0 5-58
30 MJ Leach 39 9402 142 34.07 66.2 5/1 5-67
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India
  Name Mat Balls Wkts Avg S/R 5i/10m Best
1 A Kumble 132 40850 619 29.65 66.0 35/8 10-75
2 R Ashwin 105 27138 536 23.95 50.6 37/8 7-60
3 Kapil Dev 131 27740 434 29.64 63.9 23/2 9-84
4 Harbhajan Singh 103 28580 417 32.46 68.5 25/5 8-85
5 RA Jadeja 77 18095 319 23.76 56.7 15/3 7-43
6 Z Khan 92 18785 311 32.94 60.4 11/1 7-88
= I Sharma 105 19160 311 32.40 61.6 11/1 7-75
8 BS Bedi 67 21364 266 28.71 80.3 14/1 7-99
9 BS Chandrasekhar 58 15963 242 29.74 66.0 16/2 8-80
10 J Srinath 67 15104 236 30.49 64.0 10/1 8-87
11 Mohammed Shami 64 11515 229 27.71 50.3 6/0 6-57
12 EAS Prasanna 49 14353 189 30.38 75.9 10/2 8-77
13 JJ Bumrah 40 7722 173 20.57 44.6 10/0 6-28
14 UT Yadav 57 8979 170 30.95 52.8 3/1 6-89
15 MH Mankad 44 14686 162 32.32 90.7 8/2 8-53
16 S Venkataraghavan 57 14877 156 36.11 95.4 3/1 8-73
17 RJ Shastri 80 15751 151 40.96 104.3 2/0 5-76
18 SP Gupte 36 11284 149 29.55 75.7 12/1 9-103
19 DR Doshi 33 9322 114 30.71 81.8 6/0 6-103
20 PP Ojha 24 7633 113 30.26 67.5 7/1 6-48
21 KD Ghavri 39 7036 109 33.54 64.6 4/0 5-34
22 NS Yadav 35 8360 102 35.09 82.0 3/0 5-77
23 IK Pathan 29 5884 100 32.26 58.8 7/2 7-60
24 M Prabhakar 39 7475 96 37.30 77.9 3/0 6-133
= BKV Prasad 33 7041 96 35.00 73.3 7/1 6-34
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Ireland
  Name Mat Balls Wkts Avg S/R 5i/10m Best
1 MR Adair 6 970 22 27.81 44.1 1/0 5-40
2 AR McBrine 8 1571 21 43.61 74.8 1/0 6-119
3 TJ Murtagh 3 570 13 16.38 43.8 1/0 5-14
4 SR Thompson 3 410 10 20.40 41.0 0/0 3-29
5 CA Young 2 274 8 16.50 34.2 0/0 3-25
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New Zealand
  Name Mat Balls Wkts Avg S/R 5i/10m Best
1 RJ Hadlee 86 21918 431 22.29 50.9 36/9 9-53
2 TG Southee 104 23082 385 29.88 60.0 15/1 7-65
3 DL Vettori 112 28652 361 34.15 79.4 20/3 7-88
4 TA Boult 78 17417 317 27.49 54.9 10/1 6-31
5 N Wagner 64 13725 260 27.57 52.8 9/0 7-40
6 CS Martin 71 14026 233 33.81 60.2 10/1 6-27
7 CL Cairns 62 11698 218 29.40 53.7 13/1 7-28
8 DK Morrison 48 10064 160 34.68 62.9 10/0 7-90
9 BL Cairns 43 10628 130 32.91 81.8 6/1 7-75
10 EJ Chatfield 43 10360 123 32.17 84.2 3/1 6-74
11 RO Collinge 35 7689 116 29.25 66.3 3/0 6-64
12 BR Taylor 30 6334 111 26.60 57.1 4/0 7-75
13 MJ Henry 27 6236 105 30.78 59.4 4/0 7-24
14 JG Bracewell 41 8403 102 35.81 82.4 4/1 6-33
15 RC Motz 32 7034 100 31.48 70.3 5/0 6-64
16 SB Doull 32 6053 98 29.30 61.8 6/0 7-66
17 DJ Nash 32 6196 93 28.48 66.6 3/1 6-28
18 SE Bond 18 3372 87 22.09 38.8 5/1 6-52
19 HJ Howarth 30 8833 86 36.95 102.7 2/0 5-35
20 JR Reid 58 7725 85 33.35 90.9 1/0 6-61
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Pakistan
  Name Mat Balls Wkts Avg S/R 5i/10m Best
1 Wasim Akram 104 22627 414 23.62 54.7 25/5 7-120
2 Waqar Younis 87 16224 373 23.56 43.5 22/5 7-77
3 Imran Khan 88 19458 362 22.81 53.8 23/6 8-59
4 Danish Kaneria 61 17697 261 34.79 67.8 15/2 7-78
5 Yasir Shah 48 14255 244 31.38 58.4 16/3 8-42
6 Abdul Qadir 67 17126 236 32.80 72.6 15/5 9-57
7 Saqlain Mushtaq 49 14070 208 29.83 67.6 13/3 8-165
8 Mushtaq Ahmed 52 12532 185 32.97 67.7 10/3 7-57
9 Shoaib Akhtar 46 8143 178 25.69 45.7 12/2 6-12
= Saeed Ajmal 35 11592 178 28.10 65.1 10/4 7-56
11 Sarfraz Nawaz 55 13951 177 32.75 78.8 4/1 9-87
12 Iqbal Qasim 50 13019 171 28.11 76.1 8/2 7-50
13 Umar Gul 47 9599 163 34.06 58.9 4/0 6-136
14 Fazal Mahmood 34 9834 139 24.70 70.7 13/4 7-43
15 Intikhab Alam 47 10474 125 35.95 83.8 5/2 7-53
16 Mohammad Amir 36 7619 119 30.47 64.0 4/0 6-45
17 Shaheen Shah Afridi 31 6162 116 27.88 53.1 4/1 6-52
18 Mohammad Asif 23 5171 106 24.36 48.8 7/1 6-42
19 Abdul Razzaq 46 7008 100 36.94 70.1 1/0 5-36
20 Abdur Rehman 22 6892 99 29.39 69.6 2/0 6-26
21 Tauseef Ahmed 34 7778 93 31.72 83.6 3/0 6-46
22 Mohammad Abbas 25 5134 90 23.02 57.0 4/1 5-34
23 Mohammad Sami 36 7499 85 52.74 88.2 2/0 5-37
24 Wahab Riaz 27 5018 83 34.50 60.5 2/0 5-64
25 Hasan Ali 24 4295 80 27.31 53.7 6/1 5-28
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South Africa
  Name Mat Balls Wkts Avg S/R 5i/10m Best
1 DW Steyn 93 18608 439 22.95 42.4 26/5 7-52
2 SM Pollock 108 24353 421 23.11 57.8 16/1 7-88
3 M Ntini 101 20834 390 28.82 53.4 18/4 7-38
4 AA Donald 72 15519 330 22.25 47.0 20/3 8-72
5 K Rabada 66 12057 313 21.49 38.5 16/4 7-113
6 M Morkel 86 16498 309 27.66 53.4 8/0 6-24
7 JH Kallis 165 20172 291 32.63 69.3 5/0 6-55
8 VD Philander 64 11391 224 22.32 50.9 13/2 6-22
9 KA Maharaj 54 10592 184 29.99 57.6 10/1 9-130
10 HJ Tayfield 37 13568 170 25.91 79.8 14/2 9-114
11 PR Adams 45 8850 134 32.87 66.0 4/1 7-129
12 TL Goddard 41 11736 123 26.22 95.4 5/0 6-54
= A Nel 36 7630 123 31.86 62.0 3/1 6-33
14 PM Pollock 28 6522 116 24.18 56.2 9/1 6-39
15 NAT Adcock 26 6391 104 21.10 61.5 5/0 6-44
16 PL Harris 37 8809 103 37.87 85.5 3/0 6-128
17 N Boje 43 8620 100 42.65 86.2 3/0 5-63
18 PS de Villiers 18 4805 85 24.27 56.5 5/2 6-24
19 CL Vincent 25 5851 84 31.32 69.7 3/0 6-52
20 GA Faulkner 25 4227 82 26.58 51.5 4/0 7-85
21 L Klusener 49 6887 80 37.91 86.1 1/0 8-65
22 BM McMillan 38 6048 75 33.82 80.6 0/0 4-66
23 AA Nortje 19 3057 70 26.71 43.7 4/0 6-57
24 AEE Vogler 15 2764 64 22.73 43.2 5/1 7-95
25 JH Sinclair 25 3598 63 31.68 57.1 1/0 6-27
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Sri Lanka
  Name Mat Balls Wkts Avg S/R 5i/10m Best
1 M Muralitharan 132 43715 795 22.67 55.0 67/22 9-52
2 HMRKB Herath 93 25993 433 28.07 60.0 34/9 9-128
3 WPUJC Vaas 111 23438 355 29.58 66.0 12/2 7-72
4 RAS Lakmal 70 12443 171 36.44 72.8 4/0 5-48
5 MDK Perera 43 10805 161 35.90 67.1 8/2 6-33
6 SL Malinga 30 5209 101 33.15 51.6 3/0 5-51
7 CRD Fernando 40 6181 100 37.84 61.8 3/0 5-43
8 ST Jayasuriya 110 8188 98 34.34 83.6 2/0 5-35
9 NGRP Jayasuriya 16 5243 97 28.42 54.1 9/2 7-53
10 CBRLS Kumara 31 5386 96 35.92 56.1 1/0 6-123
11 GP Wickramasinghe 40 7260 85 41.87 85.4 3/0 6-61
12 KTGD Prasad 25 4327 75 35.97 57.7 1/0 5-51
13 RJ Ratnayake 23 4961 73 35.10 68.0 5/0 6-67
14 L Embuldeniya 17 4845 71 36.77 68.2 5/1 7-138
= MVT Fernando 25 3828 71 32.71 53.9 1/0 5-102
16 BAW Mendis 19 4730 70 34.77 67.6 4/1 6-100
= N Pradeep 28 5077 70 42.90 72.5 1/0 6-133
18 HDPK Dharmasena 31 6939 69 42.31 100.6 3/0 6-73
= WRT Mendis 15 4019 69 30.65 58.2 5/1 6-71
20 DNT Zoysa 30 4422 64 33.70 69.1 1/0 5-21
= AM Fernando 19 2827 64 26.06 44.2 2/1 6-52
22 ALF de Mel 17 3518 59 36.94 59.6 3/0 6-110
23 KR Pushpakumara 23 3792 58 38.65 65.4 4/0 7-117
24 RMS Eranga 19 3891 57 37.50 68.3 0/0 4-50
25 JR Ratnayeke 22 3833 56 35.21 68.4 4/0 8-84
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West Indies
  Name Mat Balls Wkts Avg S/R 5i/10m Best
1 CA Walsh 132 30019 519 24.44 57.8 22/3 7-38
2 CEL Ambrose 98 22103 405 20.99 54.6 22/3 8-46
3 MD Marshall 81 17584 376 20.94 46.8 22/4 7-23
4 LR Gibbs 79 27115 309 29.09 87.8 18/2 8-39
5 KAJ Roach 82 14620 273 27.77 53.6 11/1 6-49
6 J Garner 58 13169 259 20.97 50.8 7/0 6-57
7 MA Holding 60 12680 249 23.68 50.9 13/2 8-93
8 GS Sobers 93 21599 235 34.03 91.9 6/0 6-74
9 AME Roberts 47 11135 202 25.61 55.1 11/2 7-55
10 WW Hall 48 10421 192 26.38 54.3 9/1 7-70
11 ST Gabriel 59 9379 166 32.21 56.5 6/1 8-63
12 FH Edwards 55 9602 165 37.87 58.2 12/0 7-88
13 JO Holder 69 11305 162 30.39 69.8 8/1 6-43
14 IR Bishop 43 8407 161 24.27 52.2 6/0 6-41
15 S Ramadhin 43 13939 158 28.98 88.2 10/1 7-50
16 AL Valentine 36 12953 139 30.32 93.2 8/2 8-105
17 M Dillon 38 8704 131 33.57 66.4 2/0 5-72
18 JE Taylor 46 7757 130 34.46 59.7 4/0 6-48
19 CEH Croft 27 6165 125 23.30 49.3 3/0 8-30
20 D Bishoo 36 8067 117 37.17 68.9 4/1 8-50
21 CL Hooper 102 13794 114 49.42 121.0 4/0 5-27
22 VA Holder 40 9095 109 33.27 83.4 3/0 6-29
23 PT Collins 32 6964 106 34.63 65.7 3/0 6-54
24 AS Joseph 35 5889 102 36.05 57.7 1/0 5-82
25 CC Griffith 28 5631 94 28.54 59.9 5/0 6-37
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Zimbabwe
  Name Mat Balls Wkts Avg S/R 5i/10m Best
1 HH Streak 65 13559 216 28.14 62.8 7/0 6-74
2 RW Price 22 6135 80 36.06 76.7 5/1 6-74
3 PA Strang 24 5720 70 36.02 81.7 4/1 8-110
4 HK Olonga 30 4502 68 38.52 66.2 2/0 5-71
5 AG Cremer 19 4214 57 45.68 73.9 1/0 5-126
6 BC Strang 26 5433 56 39.33 97.0 1/0 5-102
7 AM Blignaut 19 3173 53 37.05 59.9 3/0 5-74
8 GJ Whittall 46 4686 51 40.94 91.9 0/0 4-19
9 KM Jarvis 13 2511 46 29.43 54.6 3/0 5-55
10 Sikandar Raza 17 2657 34 42.38 78.1 2/0 7-114
11 M Mbangwa 15 2596 32 31.43 81.1 0/0 3-24
12 T Panyangara 9 1889 31 26.22 60.9 1/0 5-60
13 DH Brain 9 1810 30 30.50 60.3 1/0 5-43
14 CB Mpofu 15 2489 29 48.00 85.8 0/0 4-93
15 EA Brandes 10 1996 26 36.57 76.8 0/0 3-46
Bold = appeared less than 3 years ago.
Matches with representative XIs not included.