Test Cricket - Bowling Records and Statistics - Outstanding Performances
Players Taking Most Wickets in Year 
(calculated for matches beginning in named year)

  Player Country Mat Overs Mdns Runs Wkts Avg Best 5w E/R S/R
1 P J Cummins* Australia 12 440.0 119 1188 59 20.14 6/23 2 2.70 44.58
2 N M Lyon* Australia 12 515.3 91 1497 45 33.27 6/49 2 2.90 68.55
3 N Wagner* New Zealand 6 269.5 55 766 43 17.81 5/44 4 2.84 37.55
4 S C J Broad* England 11 367.4 89 1080 43 25.12 5/86 1 2.94 51.21
5 M A Starc* Australia 8 257.0 44 870 42 20.71 6/66 4 3.39 36.60
6 Mohammed Shami* India 8 194.2 49 550 33 16.67 5/35 1 2.83 35.24
7 J R Hazlewood* Australia 8 275.4 70 762 33 23.09 5/30 1 2.76 50.00
8 K Rabada* South Africa 8 245.5 40 904 33 27.39 4/38 0 3.68 44.49
9 T G Southee* New Zealand 8 313.4 64 958 33 29.03 5/69 1 3.05 56.98
10 J C Archer* England 7 274.0 63 822 30 27.40 6/45 3 3.00 54.72
11 K A J Roach* West Indies 6 193.5 63 488 27 18.07 5/17 1 2.52 43.00
12 I Sharma* India 6 135.4 34 389 25 15.56 5/22 2 2.87 32.40
13 T A Boult* New Zealand 6 210.5 44 670 23 29.13 5/123 1 3.18 54.91
14 U T Yadav* India 4 88.4 14 314 23 13.65 5/53 1 3.54 23.06
15 B A Stokes* England 11 242.3 42 780 22 35.45 4/59 0 3.22 65.86
16 R A Jadeja* India 8 255.4 66 725 21 34.52 4/87 0 2.84 72.86
17 Rashid Khan* Afghanistan 3 121.3 26 331 21 15.76 6/49 3 2.72 34.54
18 R Ashwin* India 5 173.2 42 483 20 24.15 7/145 1 2.79 51.84
19 C R Woakes* England 6 154.4 31 477 20 23.85 6/17 1 3.08 46.32
20 D Olivier* South Africa 4 110.0 18 435 20 21.75 5/51 1 3.95 33.00
21 J O Holder* West Indies 5 151.2 57 345 20 17.25 5/77 1 2.28 45.12

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