India Test Records :- Test Match Most Wickets

# Player Name Team Mat Balls Runs Wickets Ave Best 5w 10w Period 1 Anil Kumble Ind 132 40850 18355 619 29.6527 10-74 35 8 1990-2008 2 Kapil Dev Ind 131 27740 12867 434 29.6475 9-83 23 2 1978-1994 3 Harbhajan Singh Ind 81 22534 10621 344 30.8750 8-84 23 5 1998 4 Bishan Bedi Ind 67 21364 7637 266 28.7105 7-98 14 1 1966-1979 5 Bhagwat Chandrasekhar Ind 58 15963 7199 242 29.7479 8-79 16 2 1964-1979 6 Javagal Srinath Ind 67 15104 7196 236 30.4915 8-86 10 1 1991-2002 7 Zaheer Khan Ind 70 13940 7678 228 33.6754 5-29 8 0 2000 8 Erapalli Prasanna Ind 49 14353 5742 189 30.3810 8-76 10 2 1962-1978 9 Vinoo Mankad Ind 44 14686 5236 162 32.3210 8-52 8 2 1946-1959 10 Srinivas Venkataraghavan Ind 57 14877 5634 156 36.1154 8-72 3 1 1965-1983 11 Ravi Shastri Ind 80 15751 6185 151 40.9603 5-75 2 0 1981-1992 12 Subhash Gupte Ind 36 11284 4403 149 29.5503 9-102 12 1 1951-1961 13 Dilip Doshi Ind 33 9322 3502 114 30.7193 6-102 6 0 1979-1983 14 Karsan Ghavri Ind 39 7036 3656 109 33.5413 5-33 4 0 1974-1981 15 Shivlal Yadav Ind 35 8360 3580 102 35.0980 5-76 3 0 1979-1987 16 Irfan Pathan Ind 29 5884 3226 100 32.2600 7-59 7 2 2003