Dale Steyn’s 400 Test wickets

South Africa fast bowler Dale Steyn completed 400 wickets in Test cricket during the second Test against Bangladesh in Dhaka on Thursday.

The 32-year-old right-arm pacer becomes the second Protea’s bowler (after Shaun Pollock) ever to reach the elite club of 400 Test wickets, he achieved a milestone that only 12 other bowlers in the history of the game have reached.

Below is a table showing most career wickets in Test:

Bowler	Matches	Wkts	BBI	Aver	10w/m
Muttiah Muralitharan	133	800	9-51	22.72	22
Shane Warne	145	708	8-71	25.41	10
Anil Kumble	132	619	10-74	29.65	8
Glenn McGrath	124	563	8-24	21.64	3
Courtney Walsh	132	519	7-37	24.44	3
Kapil Dev	131	434	9-83	29.64	2
Richard Hadlee	86	431	9-52	22.29	9
Shaun Pollock	108	421	7-87	23.11	1
Harbhajan Singh	102	416	8-84	32.32	5
Wasim Akram	104	414	7-119	23.62	5
James Anderson	106	406	7-43	29.73	2
Curtly Ambrose	98	405	8-45	20.99	3
Dale Steyn	80	400	7-51	22.65	5
Makhaya Ntini	101	390	7-37	28.82	4

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