A majority of the cricket fans rate Test as the purest format of the game. Test cricket matches usually last for five days, where both teams get two opportunities to bat and score as many runs as possible. If a team takes all 20 wickets of the opponent team and scores more total runs than the opponents, then they are declared as winners of the particular match. Picking up 450 wickets in Test matches is quite difficult.
Unlike ODIs and T20Is, there is no pre-determined limit of overs in Test matches. As a result, the batters do not take too many risks in this format, making it more challenging for bowlers to take wickets. To take 450 wickets in Test career, a bowler not only needs to perform consistently but also maintain fitness so that he can a long career.
Multiple bowlers have achieved the feat of taking 450 wickets in the longest format, but there have been only three such players who have scored a hundred in addition to achieving the aforementioned feat.
1. Ravichandran Ashwin – 450 wickets and 5 hundreds
Ravichandran Ashwin is the only cricketer of this club, who has scored more than one century. The current Indian off-spinner has proven himself as one of the best players in the business with his all-round skills. Ashwin has registered five hundreds in Test cricket, and he took his 450th wicket earlier today in the Test against Australia in Nagpur.
2. Anil Kumble
Another Indian spinner to feature on the list is Anil Kumble. The former Indian leg-spinner also scalped 450+ wickets and scored one hundred in his Test career.
3. Stuart Broad
Total Test hundreds by players with 450+ Test wickets:
— Kausthub Gudipati (@kaustats) February 9, 2023
5 – Ashwin🇮🇳
1 – Kumble🇮🇳
1 – Broad🏴
0 – Anderson🏴
0 – Lyon🇦🇺
0 – McGrath🇦🇺
0 – Murali 🇱🇰
0 – Walsh🏝️
0 – Warne🇦🇺#INDvAUS
The only non-Indian player on this list is England’s Stuart Broad. The veteran England pacer has taken 450+ wickets and smashed one century in his Test career.
