Highest Test Wicket Takers (since 2011)

[CricketBuffOne]

This list features 10 bowlers with highest wickets tally in Tests since 2011. 
6 seamers and 4 spinners have made it to this list. Can you now guess these 10 names?

Give it a try & pls do take a look at the video! Hope you will like it.

Looking forward to hear from you!

 

[MCcricket]

Wow Herath, dunno what's special about his bowling I guess bowls a Lott of overs and is accurate.

One thing you can see is this era is short of flamboyant fast bowlers, except for Steyn no one else,most good bowlers are more injured then playing these days.

Pat Cummin

Starc

Morkel

Pattinson 

Milne

Edited November 28, 2016 by MCcricket

[MechEng]

Good video! One thing to note is the truckloads of test matches played by Australia and England.

[CricketBuffOne]

6 hours ago, MCcricket said:

Wow Herath, dunno what's special about his bowling I guess bowls a Lott of overs and is accurate.

One thing you can see is this era is short of flamboyant fast bowlers, except for Steyn no one else,most good bowlers are more injured then playing these days.

Pat Cummin

Starc

Morkel

Pattinson 

Milne

Great to hear from you, MCcricket!

As far as Herath is concerned, you are spot on.
Coming to the fast bowlers, what do you think about Jimmy, Broad and Boult? Think, they have plenty of fire power & X-factor. 

[CricketBuffOne]

5 hours ago, MechEng said:

Good video! One thing to note is the truckloads of test matches played by Australia and England.

Good observation MechEng!

So glad you enjoyed the video.  Thanks for watching!

[Temujin Khaghan]

it used to take about 8 years in 70s to complete 50 Test matches

now england do it within 4 years

[MCcricket]

1 hour ago, CricketBuffOne said:

Great to hear from you, MCcricket!

As far as Herath is concerned, you are spot on.
Coming to the fast bowlers, what do you think about Jimmy, Broad and Boult? Think, they have plenty of fire power & X-factor. 

Broad, Anderson, Bolt are all F/M bowlers and not similar or as versatile in my view as past greats Waseem, Waqar, Mgrath, Donald, Marshall who have it all SkillS n pace to boot, n can bowl a side out in any condition n at any stage, Steyn is the only one in that list I would rate very highly, P Cummins , Pattinson, Starc would or could be in that category but can't stay on the field for long enough.

[CricketBuffOne]

21 hours ago, Temujin Khaghan said:

it used to take about 8 years in 70s to complete 50 Test matches

now england do it within 4 years

Its amazing how sometimes we get an impression that the longest format isn't getting enough importance, but in reality more test matches are being played now.
FYI - Eng (74) & Aus (65) have played the most Tests in the last 5 years.

[CricketBuffOne]

20 hours ago, MCcricket said:

Broad, Anderson, Bolt are all F/M bowlers and not similar or as versatile in my view as past greats Waseem, Waqar, Mgrath, Donald, Marshall who have it all SkillS n pace to boot, n can bowl a side out in any condition n at any stage, Steyn is the only one in that list I would rate very highly, P Cummins , Pattinson, Starc would or could be in that category but can't stay on the field for long enough.

Fair point, but I wouldn't put at least Cummins & Pattinson in that category simply because they haven't played enough yet, hence it would be premature to arrive at a conclusion at this stage. They might have the potential, but for a fair assessment we need to see consistent results over a period of time.  

[Temujin Khaghan]

18 minutes ago, CricketBuffOne said:

Its amazing how sometimes we get an impression that the longest format isn't getting enough importance, but in reality more test matches are being played now.
FYI - Eng (74) & Aus (65) have played the most Tests in the last 5 years.

you know all the stats :D

[CricketBuffOne]

3 minutes ago, Temujin Khaghan said:

you know all the stats :D

Not all, take a lot of help from Cricinfo. 

[Vijy]

14 hours ago, CricketBuffOne said:

Fair point, but I wouldn't put at least Cummins & Pattinson in that category simply because they haven't played enough yet, hence it would be premature to arrive at a conclusion at this stage. They might have the potential, but for a fair assessment we need to see consistent results over a period of time.  

Hard to say about Cummins especially. Patterson has been a bit hot and cold. Since someone mentioned Steyn, they should also mention Rhino

[CricketBuffOne]

8 hours ago, Vijy said:

Hard to say about Cummins especially. Patterson has been a bit hot and cold. Since someone mentioned Steyn, they should also mention Rhino

Interesting pick, Vijy. Rhino, was indeed a class act. Wonder how he would have grown as a bowler had he played longer.

[Vijy]

On 11/30/2016 at 2:58 AM, CricketBuffOne said:

Interesting pick, Vijy. Rhino, was indeed a class act. Wonder how he would have grown as a bowler had he played longer.

I think he would have become a great bowler... even with injuries and sporadic playing (loss of rhythm) he still has an outstanding one for these times.

[CricketBuffOne]

8 hours ago, Vijy said:

I think he would have become a great bowler... even with injuries and sporadic playing (loss of rhythm) he still has an outstanding one for these times.

No doubt, he has a tremendous record...had all the ingredients to become a great bowler. 

[Texan]

Surprised to see Nathan Lyon in that list. I guess Aussies playing many Tests and Lyon remaining mostly injury free has helped him get all those many wickets.

[CricketBuffOne]

21 minutes ago, Texan said:

Surprised to see Nathan Lyon in that list. I guess Aussies playing many Tests and Lyon remaining mostly injury free has helped him get all those many wickets.

You are right. Aussies have played 65 Tests in the last 5 years and Lyon has featured in most of them. But participation alone hasn't helped him bag all those wickets; he has actually bowled well. Along with Herath, Ashwin & Yasir, he is among the top 4 spinners in the world currently.

[express bowling]

38 minutes ago, CricketBuffOne said:

You are right. Aussies have played 65 Tests in the last 5 years and Lyon has featured in most of them. But participation alone hasn't helped him bag all those wickets; he has actually bowled well. Along with Herath, Ashwin & Yasir, he is among the top 4 spinners in the world currently.

I am always impressed by the amount of turn that a finger-spinner like Lyon gets even on non-spinning tracks.  Graeme Swann did the same.

 

Both these guys put a lot of revs on the ball and get more  turn and bounce than most finger-spinners.

 

This has contributed immensely to their success.

[CricketBuffOne]

3 hours ago, express bowling said:

I am always impressed by the amount of turn that a finger-spinner like Lyon gets even on non-spinning tracks.  Graeme Swann did the same.

 

Both these guys put a lot of revs on the ball and get more  turn and bounce than most finger-spinners.

 

This has contributed immensely to their success.

Agree, its this ability of theirs that has helped them take wickets even on seam friendly or flat wickets. Another important thing to note is that unlike their peers they were/are not the main bowlers for their sides; sometimes didn't get to bowl enough as other bowlers in the side did their job well. Lyon operates with Starc/Hazlewood/Siddle, etc, while Swann had to bowl alongside Jimmy/Broad/Flintoff, Panesar, etc. In a sense they had to grab every wicket before someone else took it.

[Vijy]

On 12/5/2016 at 1:09 AM, express bowling said:

I am always impressed by the amount of turn that a finger-spinner like Lyon gets even on non-spinning tracks.  Graeme Swann did the same.

 

Both these guys put a lot of revs on the ball and get more  turn and bounce than most finger-spinners.

 

This has contributed immensely to their success.

Very true. But unlike Swann, Lyon never seemed to understand how to lead on spinning tracks, for e.g. Ind and SL.