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Stats: Top 10 Asian bowlers with most Test wickets outside Asia

Anil Kumble

Here is a list of Asian bowlers who have taken the most number of Test wickets outside the subcontinent. Having taken 200 wickets in 50 matches, legendary Indian spinner Anil Kumble, who is known for his ability to extract bounce from decks, tops the list. While it is partially due to the number of matches played being higher than his counterparts, what cannot be overseen is the fact that the leggie bowled mostly in non-responsive tracks and that he has done so while playing for a team that hardly competed in a Test match overseas for a better part of his career. 

Bishan Singh Bedi, Zaheer Khan, Kapil Dev and Harbhajan Singh are the four other Indian bowlers who have made it to the list, which also has the likes of Wasim Akram, Imran Khan, Muttiah Muralitharan, Chaminda Vaas and Waqar Younis. 

Player Span Mat Inns Wkts BBI Ave Econ SR 5 10
Anil Kumble (IND) 1990-2008 50 92 200 8/141 35.20 2.79 75.6 8 1
Wasim Akram (PAK) 1985-2001 45 79 198 7/119 24.80 2.60 57.0 14 4
Muttiah muralitharan (SL) 1994-2008 35 57 183 9/65 25.93 2.55 60.9 15 5
Waqar Younis (PAK) 1990-2003 40 69 158 6/78 27.53 3.26 50.6 8 1
Imran Khan (PAK) 1971-1990 37 62 157 7/40 26.11 2.60 60.1 11 3
Kapil Dev (IND) 1979-1994 45 77 155 8/106 30.78 2.59 71.2 9 0
Zaheer Khan (IND) 2001-2014 38 66 147 5/29 31.25 3.26 57.4 6 0
BS Bedi (IND) 1967-1979 34 58 123 6/127 31.71 2.30 82.4 6 1
Chaminda Vass (SL) 1994-2008 37 62 119 6/87 32.94 2.74 71.9 6 1
Harbhajan Singh (IND) 1998-2011 32 60 117 7/120 33.60 2.95 68.3 6 0

**Stats updated till September 3, 2014

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