Statistics for Cricket: Most Test Wickets in Each Calendar Year

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The average score is 40 of 73

Answer Stats

Year	Country	Wkts.	Avg.	Answer	% Correct
2004	IND	74	24.84	Anil Kumble	100%
1995	WI	62	21.76	Courtney Walsh	100%
2008	SA	74	20.01	Dale Steyn	100%
1982	PAK	62	13.29	Imran Khan	100%
2007	SL	49	22.31	Muttiah Muralitharan	100%
2006	SL	90	16.90	Muttiah Muralitharan	100%
2000	SL	75	19.51	Muttiah Muralitharan	100%
2001	SL	80	21.24	Muttiah Muralitharan	100%
2017	AUS	63	23.56	Nathan Lyon	100%
2019	AUS	59	20.14	Pat Cummins	100%
2012	SL	60	23.62	Rangana Herath	100%
2014	SL	56	27.18	Rangana Herath	100%
1993	AUS	72	23.57	Shane Warne	100%
1994	AUS	70	18.20	Shane Warne	100%
1997	AUS	68	24.43	Shane Warne	100%
2005	AUS	96	22.02	Shane Warne	100%
2002	AUS	67	19.55	Shane Warne	100%
2013	ENG	62	25.81	Stuart Broad	100%
2020	ENG	38	14.76	Stuart Broad	100%
1990	PAK	49	17.04	Waqar Younis	100%
1998	SA	80	19.64	Allan Donald	80%
1999	AUS	67	21.27	Glenn McGrath	80%
2022	SA	47	22.25	Kagiso Rabada	80%
2018	SA	52	20.08	Kagiso Rabada	80%
1979	IND	74	22.96	Kapil Dev	80%
1983	IND	75	23.19	Kapil Dev	80%
2003	SA	59	26.54	Makhaya Ntini	80%
1988	WI	60	17.87	Malcolm Marshall	80%
1986	WI	43	17.40	Malcolm Marshall	80%
2021	IND	52	17.06	Ravichandran Ashwin	80%
2015	IND	62	17.21	Ravichandran Ashwin	80%
2016	IND	72	23.90	Ravichandran Ashwin	80%
1985	NZ	64	17.44	Sir Richard Hadlee	80%
1975	AUS	49	23.08	Dennis Lillee	60%
1972	AUS	39	20.49	Dennis Lillee	60%
1981	AUS	85	20.95	Dennis Lillee	60%
2010	ENG	64	25.97	Graeme Swann	60%
1984	WI	79	20.62	Joel Garner	60%
1980	WI	53	16.60	Joel Garner	60%
1978	ENG	66	18.20	Lord Ian Botham	60%
1976	WI	53	20.38	Michael Holding	60%
2009	AUS	63	27.43	Mitchell Johnson	60%
1977	ENG	50	20.98	Bob Willis	40%
1992	AUS	41	24.59	Craig McDermott	40%
1991	AUS	51	21.21	Craig McDermott	40%
1956	ENG	48	10.00	Jim Laker	40%
1959	AUS	54	18.65	Richie Benaud	40%
1989	AUS	50	21.34	Terry Alderman	40%
1987	PAK	45	25.09	Abdul Qadir	20%
1953	ENG	39	17.49	Alec Bedser	20%
1951	ENG	49	20.47	Alec Bedser	20%
1954	ENG	41	24.93	Brian Statham	20%
1963	ENG	57	17.53	Fred Trueman	20%
1962	ENG	33	21.79	Fred Trueman	20%
1960	ENG	46	22.98	Fred Trueman	20%
1968	ENG	44	23.00	John Snow	20%
2011	PAK	50	23.86	Saeed Ajmal	20%
1961	AUS	37	23.19	Alan Davidson	0%
1950	WI	33	20.42	Alf Valentine	0%
1967	IND	24	40.17	Erapalli Prasanna	0%
1969	IND	46	24.02	Erapalli Prasanna	0%
1965	ENG	31	39.32	Fred Titmus	0%
1973	ENG	42	29.90	Geoffrey Arnold	0%
1964	AUS	71	24.46	Graham McKenzie	0%
1957	SA	43	19.93	Hugh Tayfield	0%
1966	ENG	41	18.73	Ken Higgs	0%
1970	SA	26	13.58	Mike Procter	0%
1958	WI	36	22.86	Roy Gilchrist	0%
1971	IND	35	31.26	Srinivas Venkataraghavan	0%
1955	IND	46	21.74	Subhash Gupte	0%
1974	ENG	46	27.37	Tony Greig	0%
1996	IND	37	22.68	Venkatesh Prasad	0%
1952	IND	51	21.69	Vinoo Mankad	0%