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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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