Leading county cricket wicket takers in a career?

Answer 1

Ian Botham was briefly the world record holder on his way to with 383 Test Wickets. He has since been passed by 11 players, but none of them are English.

383 - IT Botham

325 - RGD Willis

307 - FS Trueman

297 - DL Underwood

252 - JB Statham

248 - MJ Hoggard

236 - AV Bedser

234 - AR Caddick

229 - D Gough

225 - A Flintoff

221 - SJ Harmison

202 - JA Snow

12 English bowlers who have all reached 200+ test wickets.

Answer 2

M Muralitharan (ICC/SL) 1992-2009 126 41992 17058 770 9/51 16/220 22.15 2.43 54.5 66 22 SK Warne (Aus)1992-2007 145 40705 17995 708 8/71 12/128 25.41 2.65 57.4 37 10 A Kumble (India) 1990-2008 132 40850 18355 61910/74 14/149 29.65 2.69 65.9 35 8 GD McGrath (Aus) 1993-2007 124 29248 12186 563 8/24 10/27 21.64 2.49 51.9 29 3 CA Walsh (WI) 1984-2001 132 30019 12688 519 7/37 13/55 24.44 2.53 57.8 22 3 N Kapil Dev (India) 1978-1994 131 27740 12867 434 9/83 11/146 29.64 2.78 63.9 23 2 Sir RJ Hadlee (NZ) 1973-1990 86 21918 9611 431 9/52 15/123 22.29 2.63 50.8 36 9 SM Pollock (SA) 1995-2008 108 24353 9733 421 7/87 10/147 23.11 2.39 57.8 16 1 Wasim Akram (Pak) 1985-2002 104 22627 9779 414 7/119 11/110 23.62 2.59 54.6 25 5 CEL Ambrose (WI) 1988-2000 98 22103 8501 405 8/45 11/84 20.99 2.30 54.5 22 3 IT Botham (Eng)1977-1992 102 21815 10878 383 8/34 13/106 28.40 2.99 56.9 27 4 M Ntini (SA) 1998-2009 97* 19898 10727 380 7/37 13/132 28.22 3.23 52.3 18 4 MD Marshall (WI) 1978-1991 81 17584 7876 376 7/22 11/89 20.94 2.68 46.7 22 4 Waqar Younis (Pak) 1989-2003 87 16224 8788 373 7/76 13/135 23.56 3.25 43.4 22 5 Imran Khan (Pak) 1971-1992 88 19458 8258 362 8/58 14/116 22.81 2.54 53.7 23 6 DK Lillee (Aus)1971-1984 70 18467 8493 355 7/83 11/123 23.92 2.75 52.0 23 7 WPUJC Vaas (SL) 1994-2009 110 23204 10411 354 7/71 14/191 29.40 2.69 65.5 12 2 AA Donald (SA) 1992-2002 72 15519 7344 330 8/71 12/139 22.25 2.83 47.0 20 3 RGD Willis (Eng) 1971-1984 90 17357 8190 325 8/43 9/92 25.20 2.83 53.4 16 0 Harbhajan Singh (India) 1998-2008 74 20585 9698 314 8/84 15/217 30.88 2.82 65.5 22 5 B Lee (Aus)1999-2008 76 16531 9554 310 5/30 9/171 30.81 3.46 53.3 10 0 LR Gibbs (WI) 1958-1976 79 27115 8989 309 8/38 11/157 29.09 1.98 87.7 18 2 FS Trueman (Eng) 1952-1965 67 15178 6625 307 8/31 12/119 21.57 2.61 49.4 17 3 DL Underwood (Eng) 1966-1982 86 21862 7674 297 8/51 13/71 25.83 2.10 73.6 17 6 CJ McDermott (Aus) 1984-1996 71 16586 8332 291 8/97 11/157 28.63 3.01 56.9 14 2 DL Vettori (ICC/NZ) 1997-2008 89 21578 9465 286 7/87 12/149 33.09 2.63 75.4 18 3 BS Bedi (India) 1966-1979 67 21364 7637 266 7/98 10/194 28.71 2.14 80.3 14 1 J Garner (WI)1977-1987 58 13169 5433 259 6/56 9/108 20.97 2.47 50.8 7 0 JN Gillespie (Aus) 1996-2006 71 14234 6770 259 7/37 9/80 26.13 2.85 54.9 8 0 JB Statham (Eng) 1951-1965 70 16056 6261 252 7/39 11/97 24.84 2.33 63.7 9 1 JH Kallis (ICC/SA) 1995-2009 129* 16752 7877 252 6/54 9/92 31.25 2.82 66.4 5 0 MA Holding (WI) 1975-1987 60 12680 5898 249 8/92 14/149 23.68 2.79 50.9 13 2 R Benaud (Aus)1952-1964 63 19108 6704 248 7/72 11/105 27.03 2.10 77.0 16 1 MJ Hoggard (Eng) 2000-2008 67 13909 7564 248 7/61 12/205 30.50 3.26 56.0 7 1 GD McKenzie (Aus) 1961-1971 60 17681 7328 246 8/71 10/91 29.78 2.48 71.8 16 3 BS Chandrasekhar (India) 1964-1979 58 15963 7199 2428/79 12/104 29.74 2.70 65.9 16 2 AV Bedser (Eng) 1946-1955 51 15918 5876 236 7/44 14/99 24.89 2.21 67.4 15 5 J Srinath (India) 1991-2002 67 15104 7196 236 8/86 13/132 30.49 2.85 64.0 10 1 Abdul Qadir (Pak) 1977-1990 67 17126 7742 236 9/56 13/101 32.80 2.71 72.5 15 5 GS Sobers (WI)1954-1974 93 21599 7999 235 6/73 8/80 34.03 2.22 91.9 6 0 AR Caddick (Eng) 1993-2003 62 13558 6999 234 7/46 10/215 29.91 3.09 57.9 13 1 D Gough (Eng) 1994-2003 58 11821 6503 229 6/42 9/92 28.39 3.30 51.6 9 0 RR Lindwall (Aus)1946-1960 61 13650 5251 228 7/38 9/70 23.03 2.30 59.8 12 0 Danish Kaneria (Pak) 2000-2009 52 15326 7663 225 7/77 12/94 34.05 3.00 68.1 12 2 SJ Harmison (Eng/ICC) 2002-2009 61 13117 7025 221 7/12 11/76 31.78 3.21 59.3 8 1 CL Cairns (NZ) 1989-2004 62 11698 6410 218 7/27 10/100 29.40 3.28 53.6 13 1 A Flintoff (Eng/ICC) 1998-2009 75 14178 6993 218 5/58 8/156 32.07 2.95 65.0 2 0 CV Grimmett (Aus)1925-1936 37 14513 5231 216 7/40 14/199 24.21 2.16 67.1 21 7 HH Streak (Zim) 1993-2005 65 13559 6079 216 6/73 9/72 28.14 2.69 62.7 7 0 MG Hughes (Aus) 1985-1994 53 12285 6017 212 8/87 13/217 28.38 2.93 57.9 7 1

Answer 3

The top 3 are Wally Hammond, Geoffrey Boycott and Colin Cowdrey with 22 Test Centuries each. Ken Barrington and Graham Gooch have 20 centuries each. Len Hutton has 19 and Herbie Sutcliffe 16.