Asian Bowlers with Most Test 5-Wicket Hauls in SENA Countries

Asian Bowlers with Most Test 5-Wicket Hauls in SENA

Player	Matches	Innings	5-Wicket Hauls	Best Bowling (Innings)
Jasprit Bumrah (IND)	34	64	11	6/33
Wasim Akram (PAK)	32	55	11	7/119
Muttiah Muralitharan (SL)	22	34	10	9/65
Imran Khan (PAK)	29	46	8	7/40
Kapil Dev (IND)	35	62	7	8/106
Bhagwath Chandrasekhar (IND)	19	32	6	6/38
Zaheer Khan (IND)	30	53	6	5/29
Mushtaq Ahmed (PAK)	19	31	6	7/56
Waqar Younis (PAK)	30	51	6	6/78
Bishan Singh Bedi (IND)	25	42	5	6/127

Note: SENA Countries: South Africa, England, New Zealand, and Australia

Key Insights

Jasprit Bumrah, Wasim Akram, and Muttiah Muralitharan are the three Asian bowlers to take 10 or more five-wicket hauls in SENA Test matches.

Bumrah, meanwhile, also leads the wicket chart, with over 150 scalps in these four nations combined.

Despite being a spinner, Muralitharan bowled pretty well in not-so-spin-friendly SENA conditions. He picked up 5 ten-wicket match hauls, the most among Asian bowlers in SENA Tests. Pakistan’s Akram (3) and Imran Khan (2) are the other bowlers with multiple ten-fors. Find out which bowler overall has the most number of 10-wicket hauls in Test cricket.

Muralitharan has also delivered the best match haul in SENA Tests by an Asian bowler. In the 1998 Oval Test against England, he had figures of 7 for 155 and 9 for 65 to return with 16 for 220. This is also the best match figure for any Asian bowler in Test history. It is also the only instance of a bowler picking 16 or more wickets in a Test match, since 1990.

Murali’s 9 for 65 is also the best bowling figure in a Test innings in SENA countries. Thanks to Murali, Sri Lanka won the Test, making it the best bowling figure in winning causes.

Explore every record held by the legendary Muttiah Muralitharan.

Bumrah, Muralitharan, Akram, and Mustaq Ahmed have picked up 5 or more five-fors in winning causes, the joint-most among Asian bowlers in SENA Tests.

Likewise, Murali’s 3 of the 5 ten-wicket hauls helped Sri Lanka win. Imran Khan is the other bowler with multiple ten-fors in SENA Test wins.

Four of Imran Khan’s five-fors came as Pakistan’s skipper, the most by an Asian captain in SENA countries. India’s Bishan Singh Bedi and Pakistan’s Intikhab Alam are the other Asian skippers with multiple five-wicket hauls, with three each to their names.

Six of Akram’s 11 five-fors came in New Zealand, the most by an Asian bowler in one of the four SENA nations.

Pakistan’s Mohammad Asif and Mushtaq Ahmed have taken a five-wicket haul in each of the four SENA countries, the only Asian bowlers to do so.

Read: Indian batters to score at least one century in all SENA countries

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