Seventy plus test wickets on a single ground

Seventy plus test wickets on a single ground

HMRKB Herath with his 13 wickets at Col-SSC against Australia has now 73 wickets at Col-SSC and joined the list of bowlers who have captured 70 plus wickets at a Single ground. There are eleven occasions of bowlers accomplishing the feat of capturing 70 plus wickets at a single ground. All such occasions are listed below

No Player Team M Balls Runs W Ave 5 10 Ground
1 M Muralitharan Srl 24 8837 3435 166 20.69 14 4 Col-SSC
2 M Muralitharan Srl 16 5086 1875 117 16.02 11 5 Kandy
3 M Muralitharan Srl 15 5727 2054 111 18.50 11 4 Galle
4 HMRKB Herath Srl 15 4487 2006 84 23.88 8 3 Galle  
5 HH Streak Zim 19 4538 1920 83 23.13 3 0 Harare
6 DK Lillee Aus 14 3833 1798 82 21.92 7 4 Melbourne
7 WPUJC Vaas Srl 21 4514 2004 80 25.05 4 1 Col-SSC
8 JM Anderson Eng 19 4746 2191 78 28.08 4 0 Lord’s
9 RJ Hadlee NZl 14 3679 1635 76 21.51 6 0 Christchurch
10 HMRKB Herath Srl 12 3979 1857 73 25.43 8 2 Col-SSC
11 SCJ Broad Eng 17 4026 2090 73 28.63 2 1 Lord’s

HMRKB Herath became the second bowler in the annals of test cricket to have an aggregate of 70 plus wickets on two or more specific grounds – 84 wickets at Galle and 73 wkts at Col-SSC. M Muralitharan is the other bowler to accomplish such a feat – 166 at Col-SSC, 117 wkts at Kandy and 111 wkts at Galle. In fact M Muralitharan is the only bowler to capture 100 plus wickets at three specific grounds

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