Fastest to 200 Test wickets: Fastest 200 wickets in Test cricket history full list

During the second day of the first Test match between Australia and West Indies in Perth, Australia captain Pat Cummins became the first bowler to pick 200 Test wickets in his 43rd Test match.

Overall, the seventh-fastest to achieve this feat, Cummins became the fifth fastest among Australian bowlers (second among fast bowlers) to touch the 200-wicket mark in the longest format.

It all happened on the second delivery of the 55th over when Cummins made the ball to jag back into his counterpart Kraigg Brathwaite to beat him all ends up. With the ball hitting the top of the stumps, Cummins ended a resolute innings from Braithwaite. Second half-centurion among West Indian batters today, Brathwaite departed after scoring 64 (166) with the help of five fours and a six.

One of the three Australian quicks to pick a wicket on Friday, Cummins hasn’t been able to add to his tally of wickets since then as West Indies batter Jermaine Blackwood and former captain Jason Holder haven’t shown any major signs of getting troubled by the hosts.

Fastest to 200 Test wickets

Having made his Test debut 11 years ago, Cummins is quite low on the list of fastest to 200 Test wickets by time. Barring Australia’s Clarrie Grimmett, no other bowler has taken more than a decade to pick 200 wickets in Tests in the aforementioned list.

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Having played all of a lone Test match in the first half-a-decade of his Test career primarily due to frequent injuries, Cummins is pretty unfortunate to have played only 43 Tests in all these years. Having said that, as far as creating an impact is concerned, the 29-year old player is up there among the best Australian bowlers of all time.

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Dixit Bhargav

Born and brought up in Pathankot, Dixit Bhargav is an engineering and sports management graduate who works as a Cricket Editor at The SportsRush. Having written more than 10,000 articles across more than five years at TSR, his first cricketing memory dates back to 2002 when former India captain Sourav Ganguly had waved his jersey at the historic Lord’s balcony. What followed for an 8-year-old was an instant adulation for both Ganguly and the sport. The optimist in him is waiting for the day when Punjab Kings will win their maiden Indian Premier League title. When not watching cricket, he is mostly found in a cinema hall watching a Punjabi movie.

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