ICC World Test Championship 2023-2025 – Bowling statistics
The 2023-2025 ICC World Test Championship begins on Friday 16th June with the first Ashes Test between England and Australia at Edgbaston.
The famous series between the two sides began the inaugural Test match tournament in 2019, which coincided with the ‘modern’ introduction of names and numbers to the backs of players shirts. New Zealand won that first trophy back in 2021 when they defeated India in a six-day final at the AGEAS Bowl in Southampton.
The 2021-2023 competition was a more open tourament throughout the league stage with both South Africa and Sri Lanka believing they had a chance of making the final at different stages. Eventually, though, India, again, reached the showpiece event, where they defeated/were beaten by Australia at The Oval last week.
In the 2019-21 edition, Australia’s Marnus Labuschagne didn’t even start in the first Test but went on to be the leading run scorer with 1675 runs, whilst Ravichandran Ashwin, of India, was the leading wicket taker as he took 71 wickets in that two-year spell. In 2021-23, Joe Root, with 1915 runs, and Nathan Lyon, on 80 wickets before the aforementioned final, topped the batting and bowling statistics.
The following is a regularly updated list of all of the wickets taken by each player in the 2023-2025 ICC World Test Championship…
MOST WICKETS: Stuart Broad (ENG) = 18
BEST AVERAGE: Ravindra Jadeja (IND) = 14.60
BEST INNINGS FIGURES: Nauman Ali (PAK) = 7-70
MOST FIVE-WICKET INNINGS: Ravichandran Ashwin (IND) = 2
MOST TEN-WICKET MATCHES: Ravichandran Ashwin (IND) = 1
Player | Wickets taken | Innings 5fers/match 10fers | Best innings figures | Average
AUSTRALIA
Scott Boland | 2 | 0/0 | 1-61 | 115.50
Pat Cummins | 16 | 1/0 | 6-91 | 33.38
Cameron Green | 5 | 0/0 | 2-64 | 47.00
Josh Hazlewood | 13 | 1/0 | 5-126 | 29.69
Travis Head | 2 | 0/0 | 2-17 | 46.00
Marnus Labuschagne | 0 | 0/0 | 0-3 | N/A
Nathan Lyon | 9 | 0/0 | 4-80 | 27.56
Mitchell Marsh | 2 | 0/0 | 1-9 | 44.50
Todd Murphy | 1 | 0/0 | 1-36 | 49.00
Steve Smith | 0 | 0/0 | 0-1 | N/A
Mitchell Starc | 15 | 1/0 | 5-78 | 29.40
BANGLADESH
ENGLAND
Moeen Ali | 6 | 0/0 | 2-34 | 64.50
James Anderson | 4 | 0/0 | 1-51 | 76.75
Stuart Broad | 18 | 0/0 | 4-65 | 28.61
Harry Brook | 0 | 0/0 | 0-5 | N/A
Ollie Robinson | 10 | 0/0 | 3-55 | 28.40
Joe Root | 4 | 0/0 | 2-19 | 28.25
Ben Stokes | 3 | 0/0 | 1-9 | 29.67
Josh Tongue | 5 | 0/0 | 3-98 | 30.20
Chris Woakes | 12 | 1/0 | 5-62 | 19.50
Mark Wood | 11 | 1/0 | 5-34 | 17.00
INDIA
Ravichandran Ashwin | 15 | 2/1 | 7-71 | 15.00
Ravindra Jadeja | 5 | 0/0 | 3-26 | 14.60
Bhuvneshwar Kumar | 2 | 0/0 | 2-48 | 26.50
Mohammed Siraj | 7 | 1/0 | 5-60 | 17.86
Shardul Thakur | 1 | 0/0 | 1-15 | 15.00
Jaydev Unadkat | 0 | 0/0 | 0-1 | N/A
NEW ZEALAND
PAKISTAN
Shaheen Afridi | 6 | 0/0 | 3-86 | 37.33
Abrar Ahmed | 10 | 0/0 | 4-69 | 23.90
Nauman Ali | 10 | 1/0 | 7-70 | 20.00
Agha Salman | 3 | 0/0 | 2-39 | 21.00
Naseem Shah | 9 | 0/0 | 3-41 | 23.00
SOUTH AFRICA
SRI LANKA
Dhananjaya de Silva | 0 | 0/0 | 0-2 | N/A
Asitha Fernando | 3 | 0/0 | 3-133 | 44.33
Vishwa Fernando | 1 | 0/0 | 1-69 | 75.00
Prabath Jayasuriya | 9 | 0/0 | 4-56 | 43.89
Dilshan Madushanka | 0 | 0/0 | 0-77 | N/A
Ramesh Mendis | 6 | 1/0 | 5-136 | 56.17
Kasun Rajitha | 1 | 0/0 | 1-77 | 77.00
WEST INDIES
Akila Athanaze | 1 | 0/0 | 1-53 | 65.00
Jermaine Blackwood | 0 | 0/0 | 0-4 | N/A
Kraigg Brathwaite | 0 | 0/0 | 0-1 | N/A
Rahkeem Cornwall | 1 | 0/0 | 1-32 | 32.00
Shannon Gabriel | 2 | 0/0 | 1-33 | 53.50
Jason Holder | 2 | 0/0 | 2-57 | 61.50
Alzarri Joseph | 1 | 0/0 | 1-80 | 214.00
Raymon Reifer | 0 | 0/0 | 0-16 | N/A
Kemar Roach | 4 | 0/0 | 3-104 | 50.00
Jomel Warrican | 5 | 0/0 | 3-89 | 46.20
