Bowlers who picked 9 wickets in a Test innings

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#9 Sarfraz Nawaz

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Sarfraz Nawaz, the legendary fast bowler from Pakistan against Australia in Melbourne in 1979 in the second innings picked nine wickets and one player got run out. He was a brilliant seam bowler and because of his bowling efforts in the second innings, Pakistan won the match by 71 runs.


#10 Jack Noreiga

The West Indian spinner just played 4 Test matches for West Indies. In a match against India in Port of Spain in 1971, he picked 9 wickets except for Vinoo Mankad's in the first innings. Even after his brilliant performance, India was able to defeat the West Indies at their home soil.


#11 Subash Gupte

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The Indian legspinner against WestIndies in Kanpur in 1958 picked nine wickets except for the ninth wicket which was taken by Vasant Ranjane. But in the second innings, Gary Sobers took the match from India by scoring 198. He was, unfortunately, run-out on that score.


#12 Sydney Barnes

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Sydney Barnes, the England seamer against South Africa in Johannesburg in the first innings picked 8 wickets in 1913. In the second innings, he went on to improve his earlier performance by picking nine wickets. He ended with the figures of 17/159 which are second best after Jim Laker's 19 wickets. He was a brilliant bowler had a knack of picking wickets. In just 27 Tests he picked 189 wickets.

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