Trivia #32: Wicket in most consecutive Test innings (Jul94)
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13-Sep-2021
At Least One Wicket in Most Consecutive Test Innings
in Which Bowled
Based on all Tests up to and including
England v South Africa at Leeds 06/08/1998
# Inns
42 BS Bedi (Ind)
1st innings v Eng Lord's 1971
to 1st innings v Eng Calcutta 1977
41 DK Lillee (Aus)
1st innings v Eng Brisbane 1974
to 1st innings v WI Brisbane 1979
41 Waqar Younis (Pak)
1st innings v WI Lahore 1990
to 1st innings v SL Peshawar 1995
33 AA Donald (RSA)
2nd innings v Aus Cape Town 1994
to 1st innings v Aus Port Elizabeth 1997
32 CJ McDermott (Aus)
1st innings v WI Port-of-Spain 1991
to 1st innings v NZ Auckland 1993
32 Wasim Akram (Pak)
1st innings v Zim Rawalpindi 1993
to 1st innings v NZ Christchurch 1995
29 Imran Khan (Pak)
1st innings v Aus Lahore 1982
to 1st innings v Ind Madras 1987
27 BA Reid (Aus)
1st innings v Eng Brisbane 1986
to 2nd innings v Ind Melbourne 1991
27 J Garner (WI)
2nd innings v Pak Port-of-Spain 1977
to 1st innings v Eng Leeds 1980
27 J Garner (WI)
2nd innings v Ind Port-of-Spain 1983
to 1st innings v Aus Brisbane 1984
26 Mushtaq Ahmed (Pak)
1st innings v Aus Lahore 1994
to 2nd innings v WI Peshawar 1997
25 SF Barnes (Eng)
2nd innings v Aus Melbourne 1908
to 2nd innings v RSA Lord's 1912
Others with sequences of 20+:
24 CEL Ambrose (WI)
23 JC Laker, IT Botham, GR Dilley and RWV Robins (Eng)
LR Gibbs and AME Roberts (WI)
J Srinath (Ind)-current
22 CV Grimmett (Aus)
21 AP Freeman and JA Snow (Eng)
JM Blanckenberg and AA Donald (RSA)
CEH Croft and MD Marshall (WI)
SB Doull (NZ)
20 FS Trueman (Eng)
AK Davidson (Aus)
MA Holding (WI)
RO Collinge and RJ Hadlee (NZ)
For other countries:
15 M Muralitharan (SL)
HH Streak (Zim)
Notes:
1. Taking at least one wicket in most consecutive innings from
debut - 23 by RWV Robins (Eng) and AME Roberts (WI).
2. Taking at least one wicket in most consecutive innings at the
end of the career - 18 by MD Marshall (WI).
3. JJ Ferris (Aus/Eng) bowled in only 16 innings in his career
and took at least one wicket in every one of them.
4. Garner and Donald are the only bowlers so far to have two
separate runs of 20+ innings with at least one wicket.
5. GAR Lock (Eng) would have had a run of probably at least 22
innings if his streak was not rudely interrupted by JC Laker's
ten-wicket performance.