The Best Bowling Figures in a Bowler’s 50th Test

Player	Bowling Figures (Innings)	Against	Venue	Date
Trevor Bailey (ENG)	7/44	West Indies	Lord’s	20 Jul 1957
Harbhajan Singh (IND)	7/62	Sri Lanka	Ahmedabad	18 Dec 2005
Michael Holding (WI)	6/21	Australia	Perth	9 Nov 1984
Shaun Pollock (SA)	6/30	Sri Lanka	Cape Town	2 Jan 2001
Anil Kumble (IND)	6/70	Pakistan	Chennai	28 Jan 1999
Muttiah Muralitharan (SL)	6/71	Pakistan	Peshawar	5 Mar 2000
Richard Hadlee (NZ)	5/29	Sri Lanka	Colombo	24 Mar 1984
Darren Gough (ENG)	5/61	Pakistan	Lord’s	17 May 2001
Shakib Al Hasan (BAN)	5/68	Australia	Mirpur	27 Aug 2017
Graham McKenzie (AUS)	5/69	India	Mumbai	4 Nov 1969

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Key Insights

Trevor Bailey picked up the best bowling figures in his 50th Test match. The former England seamer took seven wickets for 44 runs against the West Indies in the first innings of the 1957 Lord’s Test.

Bailey picked up four more scalps in the third innings to finish with the best match haul by a bowler in their 50th Test, with combined figures of 11 for 98.

Richard Hadlee (10/102), Muttiah Muralitharan (10/148), Harbhajan Singh (10/141), and Shakib Al Hasan (10/153) are the other bowlers with ten-wicket hauls in their 50th Tests. Find out here which bowler has picked the most 10-wicket hauls in Test cricket.

Hadlee and Shakib are the only two bowlers to take five-wicket hauls in both innings of their 50th Test.

In total, 16 bowlers have grabbed at least one five-for in their 50th Test matches.

Bishan Singh Bedi delivered the most economical spell (innings) by a bowler in their 50th Test (minimum five wickets). He had an economy rate of 1.72 while picking up five wickets for 110 runs against England in the 1977 Kolkata Test.

Ravichandran Ashwin had 275 wickets after his 50th Test, the most by a bowler. He also had 25 five-wicket hauls, which is the most by a bowler at that stage of their career.