The South African pacer Kagiso Rabada has recently surpassed the great Caribbean fast bowler Malcolm Marshall in this unique chronicle of record. Kagiso Rabada has registered the mark of clinching 250 wickets in test cricket in his 97th innings in the format. While Malcolm Marshall also took the same number of matches to break this mark, but Rabada achieved this feat at a far younger age than him.
In the fourth test match between England and South Africa, Rabada had taken a 5 wicket haul in the first innings and registered his name at the Lord’s honour board. With the help of his brilliant bowling performance in the game where he took 7 wickets in the combine, it has majorly helped the South African team to register a never before victory at the classic venue of Lords cricket ground.
With this he became the 9th bowler in the listicle to achieve this record after the great pacers like Dale Steyn, Richard hadley and Denis Lillee. In the second inning where the bowling performance of South Africa was even better from the first half Anrich Nortje played the crucial role along with Kagiso Rabada to rip through the batting lineup of England.
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The helpless English batsman felt like a pack of cards and proteas registered the win by an inning and 12 runs which is one of their biggest victories on the soil of England. Below given is a list of all fast bowlers of the world who have achieved the mark of 250 wickets in test matches along with taking minimum innings to reach it.
Fewest innings to 250 Test wickets as a Pacer
90 – 🇿🇦Alan Donald
90 – 🇿🇦Dale Steyn
91 – 🇵🇰Waqar Younis
92 – 🇦🇺Dennis Lillee
94 – 🇵🇰Imran Khan
94 – 🏴Ian Botham
96 – 🇳🇿Richard Hadlee
97 – 🌴Malcolm Marshall
97 – 🇿🇦Kagiso Rabada*#ENGvSA | #KagisoRabada— Cricbaba (@thecricbaba) August 19, 2022
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