Worst bowler to take n or more wickets in Tests?

[smash84]

Sami had all the ingredients to be a very good fast bowler. I can't remember any guy as short as Sami bowling 150+ km/h quit regularly. Maybe Marshall but I think Marshall was probably closer to Waqar in height than to Sami. Just that it was gun barrel straight and Sami was twice as brainless as Ishant at his worst.

 

[91Jmay]

Greg Matthews 61 wickets @ 48 would be a contender for 50 up looking at the stats.

Shahadat Hossain though really dominates that category. 72 @ 51.81 with the princely economy rate of 4.16.

Other contenders for 50 + wickets -

Suranga Lakmal
Ajit Agarkar
Jetan Patel ( )

and someone called Paul Wiseman who I have no memory of.

 

[flibbertyjibber]

100+ Devon Malcolm
200+ Ishant
300+ Brett Lee
400+ Harbhajan

 

[doesitmatter]

Wikramasinghe was pretty bad too.. How about Bob Willis ? 300+ wickets..looked like he took forever to take them

 

[weldone]

709 - Muttiah Muralitharan
618 - Shane Warne
435 - Anil Kumble
430 - Kapil Dev
418 - James Anderson (This is tough....there's not much between Kapil and Anderson...but gave Kapil the nod due to bowling in difficult conditions and for longer)
391 - Harbhajan Singh
363 - Makhaya Ntini
293 - Daniel Vettori
262 - Jacques Kallis
202 - Danish Kaneria
166 - Ishant Sharma
152 - Fidel Edwards
115 - Ravi Shastri
86 - Carl Hooper
73 - Daren Powell
42 - Shahadat Hossain
33 - Marlon Samuels
21 - Viv Richards (On second thought, this is probably a bit unfair. Samuels is probably a worse bowler than Viv.)
11 - Ian Chappell
10 - Kevin Pietersen
9 - Shiv Chanderpaul
3 - Graeme Smith
1 - Rajin Saleh

 

[91Jmay]

Wikramasinghe was pretty bad too.. How about Bob Willis ? 300+ wickets..looked like he took forever to take them

No chance. Willis was class and better than Lee, Khan, Botham, Vaas, Broad and Johnson in the 300 + stakes.

 

[fredfertang]

Bob Willis was a terrific bowler for England - pretty **** for Warwickshire though

 

[91Jmay]

Yeah my Granddad always said that

 

[kiwiviktor81]

and someone called Paul Wiseman who I have no memory of.

He was very, very poor.

 

[The Sean]

How about Bob Willis ? 300+ wickets..looked like he took forever to take them

Behave.

No chance. Willis was class and better than Lee, Khan, Botham, Vaas, Broad and Johnson in the 300 + stakes.

Behave.

 

[cnerd123]

Rajin Saleh was a handy spinner domestically IIRC. Surely there is someone worse than him to have taken a Test wicket. Mark Boucher has one!

 

[smash84]

Behave.



Behave.

I think he meant Zaheer Khan.

 

[Athlai]

Zaheer not imran

 

[91Jmay]

Behave.



Behave.

Toys back in pram. I meant Zak (who was a really good bowler, don't get me wrong).

 

[The Sean]

I think he meant Zaheer Khan.

Zaheer not imran

Of course I know that's who he meant. Ahem.

Sorry 91Jmay...

I stand by my first use of "behave" though.

 

[Prince EWS]

Rajin is definitely not that bad.

 

[Athlai]

Always thought KP and Smith were decent part time options.

 

[HeathDavisSpeed]

800 - Muttiah Muralitharan
708 - Shane Warne
435 - Anil Kumble
432 - Kapil Dev
418 - James Anderson (This is tough....there's not much between Kapil and Anderson...but gave Kapil the nod due to bowling in difficult conditions and for longer)
391 - Harbhajan Singh
363 - Makhaya Ntini
293 - Daniel Vettori
262 - Jacques Kallis
202 - Danish Kaneria
166 - Ishant Sharma
152 - Fidel Edwards
115 - Ravi Shastri
86 - Carl Hooper
73 - Daren Powell
42 - Shahadat Hossain
33 - Marlon Samuels
21 - Viv Richards (On second thought, this is probably a bit unfair. Samuels is probably a worse bowler than Viv.)
11 - Ian Chappell
10 - Kevin Pietersen
9 - Shiv Chanderpaul
3 - Graeme Smith
1 - Rajin Saleh

I don't necessarily agree on that whole list, but decent effort nevertheless.

 

[Athlai]

Some of Weldones' wickets taken were slightly off so I'll try my own

Gets kinda boring quickly as the part-time options take over

Murali - 800
Warne - 708
Kumble - 619
Kapil Dev - 434
Harbhajan - 417
Kallis - 292
Sobers - 235 (career basis, so including his bowling "allround")
Edwards - 165
Shastri - 151
Hooper - 114
Astle - 51
G Chappell - 47
Viv Richards - 32
Chanderpaul - 9
Dunno who is the biggest spud after that

 

[Bahnz]

Hmmm, Astle was such a handy bowler to have in tests though. You could bowl him for 5 or 6 overs while the quicks were resting and know that he'd never conceed more than 10 or 12 runs.