Courtney Walsh was the first bowler to take 500 wickets in Test cricket. It happened in 2001 in his 129th match when he had trapped Jacques Kallis in front of the wickets.
The first bowler to reach the target of 100 wickets in Test Cricket was Johnny Briggs of England.
Fred Trueman, of England, was the first bowler to take 300 Test wickets
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Charles Turner was the first bowler who took 100 wickets in Test matches for Australia in the year 1895 against England at Sydney.
Courtney Walsh of the West Indies was the first cricketer to take 500 Test wickets, in 2001.
Richard Hadlee was the first New Zealand bowler to take 300 wickets in Test Matches, and currently the leading test wicket-taker in New Zealand. The other New Zealander to get 300 test wickets was Daniel Vettori. No New Zealand bowler is yet to take 300 wickets in ODIs or T20s.
Dennis Lillee of Australia was the first bowler to take 350 wickets in Test Cricket. He achieved this mark in 1984 in the last match of his Test Cricket career at Sydney playing against Pakistan.
Courtney Walsh in March 2001.
Former Indian captain and great all-rounder Kapil Dev is the first Indian bowler who took 400 wickets in the test cricket.
Narendra Hirwani - 17 wickets
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