Most wickets in international cricket — the full ranked list
The complete ranking of most wickets in international cricket, in order, with what the ranking counts and how firm the figures behind it are. Free reference, no sign-up — and the guessing game that plays the same list.
All three formats combined, men's cricket. The companion to the runs list, and a harder one — bowling careers are shorter, so the tail turns over faster.
The figures behind this ranking move over time, so the order is right for now rather than fixed.
100 entries, in order.
- Muttiah Muralitharan
- Shane Warne
- James Anderson
- Anil Kumble
- Stuart Broad
- Glenn McGrath
- Nathan Lyon
- Wasim Akram
- Ravichandran Ashwin
- Courtney Walsh
- Dale Steyn
- Shakib Al Hasan
- Kapil Dev
- Rangana Herath
- Chaminda Vaas
- Waqar Younis
- Harbhajan Singh
- Shaun Pollock
- Brett Lee
- Tim Southee
- Trent Boult
- Mitchell Starc
- Daniel Vettori
- Zaheer Khan
- Jasprit Bumrah
- Morne Morkel
- Makhaya Ntini
- Curtly Ambrose
- Ravindra Jadeja
- Saqlain Mushtaq
- Allan Donald
- Ishant Sharma
- Mitchell Johnson
- Lasith Malinga
- Bhuvneshwar Kumar
- Kagiso Rabada
- Pat Cummins
- Josh Hazlewood
- Umar Gul
- Graeme Swann
- Richard Hadlee
- Imran Khan
- Dennis Lillee
- Bob Willis
- Malcolm Marshall
- Michael Holding
- Joel Garner
- Andy Roberts
- Craig McDermott
- Jason Gillespie
- Stuart MacGill
- Peter Siddle
- Adam Zampa
- Terry Alderman
- Merv Hughes
- Javagal Srinath
- Venkatesh Prasad
- Ajit Agarkar
- Irfan Pathan
- Mohammed Shami
- Mohammed Siraj
- Umesh Yadav
- Amit Mishra
- Yuzvendra Chahal
- Kuldeep Yadav
- Axar Patel
- Saeed Ajmal
- Shoaib Akhtar
- Abdul Qadir
- Mushtaq Ahmed
- Danish Kaneria
- Shahid Afridi
- Shaheen Afridi
- Hasan Ali
- Yasir Shah
- Mohammad Amir
- Wahab Riaz
- Nuwan Kulasekara
- Ajantha Mendis
- Sanath Jayasuriya
- Wanindu Hasaranga
- Jacques Kallis
- Lance Klusener
- Imran Tahir
- Vernon Philander
- Chris Cairns
- Kyle Mills
- Ish Sodhi
- Neil Wagner
- Matt Henry
- Shane Bond
- Darren Gough
- Andrew Flintoff
- Matthew Hoggard
- Steve Harmison
- Monty Panesar
- Chris Woakes
- Ben Stokes
- Adil Rashid
- Mark Wood
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