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