Most Test wickets in 2021: India’s ace spinner R Ashwin has equaled Pakistan pace sensation – Shaheen Shah Afridi’s tally of most wickets in 2021 in Test cricket. Ashwin – who earlier surpassed Harbhajan Singh’s record of 417 wickets to become the 3rd highest wicket-taker for India in Test – returned with 3 wickets in the 4th innings of the Kanpur Test and has become the joint-leading wicket-taker in Test in 2021. Follow InsideSport.in for more updates.
Earlier, Shaheen Shah Afridi reclaimed the top spot in the list of most Test wickets in 2021 after picking up a fifer on Day 4 of the ongoing Chattogram Test against Bangladesh and went past India’s R Ashwin to reclaim the summit position.
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Most Test wickets in 2021: R Ashwin equals Shaheen Shah Afridi’s record despite the latter’s fifer against Bangladesh – Check out
Shaheen Shah Afridi – who pushed Bangladesh on the backfoot by removing the top three batters on Day 3 – continued his red-hot form & accounted for two more wickets on Day 4 to complete his 4th fifer in Test cricket. Afridi returned with an impressive figure of 5/32 and helped Pakistan restrict the host at 157.
Top work @iShaheenAfridi 🙌🙌🙌
Test five-fer number four! #BANvPAK pic.twitter.com/YUyPaWhk4r— Pakistan Cricket (@TheRealPCB) November 29, 2021
Most Test wickets in 2021:
| Player | Mat | Inns | Overs | Mdns | Wkts | BBI | Econ | 5 | 10 |
| Shaheen Shah Afridi (PAK) | 8* | 15 | 273.5 | 70 | 44 | 6/51 | 2.80 | 3 | 1 |
| R Ashwin (INDIA) | 7 | 14 | 334.4 | 67 | 44 | 6/61 | 2.39 | 3 | 0 |
| Hasan Ali (PAK) | 7* | 14 | 201.3 | 46 | 39 | 5/27 | 3.08 | 5 | 1 |
| AR Patel (INDIA) | 4 | 8 | 182.4 | 45 | 33 | 6/38 | 2.03 | 5 | 1 |
| JM Anderson (ENG) | 10 | 18 | 337.5 | 115 | 32 | 6/40 | 2.21 | 2 | 0 |
Meanwhile, R Ashwin has surpassed India’s veteran spinner, Harbhajan Singh in most wickets for India in Test cricket. With 419 wickets in 80 matches, R Ashwin is now third on the list of most wickets for India in Test cricket.
Most wickets for India in Test cricket:
| Player | Span | Mat | Inns | Wkts | BBI | Ave | Econ | SR | 5 | 10 |
| A Kumble | 1990-2008 | 132 | 236 | 619 | 10/74 | 29.65 | 2.69 | 65.9 | 35 | 8 |
| N Kapil Dev | 1978-1994 | 131 | 227 | 434 | 9/83 | 29.64 | 2.78 | 63.9 | 23 | 2 |
| R Ashwin | 2011-2021 | 80 | 150 | 419 | 7/59 | 24.48 | 2.78 | 52.7 | 30 | 7 |
| Harbhajan Singh | 1998-2015 | 103 | 190 | 417 | 8/84 | 32.46 | 2.84 | 68.5 | 25 | 5 |
| Z Khan | 2000-2014 | 92 | 165 | 311 | 7/87 | 32.94 | 3.27 | 60.4 | 11 | 1 |
Most Test wickets in 2021: R Ashwin equals Shaheen Shah Afridi’s record despite the latter’s fifer against Bangladesh – Check out
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