Top five Indian bowlers with most wickets on home soil ft. Ravindra Jadeja
Bowling has never been the seemingly positive point on the Indian soil, as the pacers often have picked many more wickets in overseas conditions, like the tracks of Australia and England, which helped bowlers with uneven bounce and lateral movement.
Playing strategically has helped players on sub-continent tracks, as the record of spinners on Indian tracks seems better than anywhere in the world. Likes of several great spinners like Harbhajan Singh, Anil Kumble, Ravi Ashwin, and Ravindra Jadeja feature on our list of most wickets for India on Indian soil; however, legendary paceman Kapil Dev is the only fast bowler in the list.
Top 5 Indian bowlers with the most wickets on Indian soil
1. Anil Kumble
Anil Kumble is the highest wicket-taker for India in both Tests and ODIs (Image Credit: X)
The legendary leggie from the Indian sub-continent, Anil Kumble, is India’s highest wicket-taker to date, and the legend is also the fourth-highest wicket-getter in the history of the game with both Test and ODI formats combined.
Kumble has picked 956 wickets for India across formats, of which 476 wickets were picked on Indian soil. Most of his wickets came in the red-ball format, where he picked up 350 wickets in India and also amassed 126 wickets in the ODI format as well.
2. Ravi Ashwin
Recently retired legendary Indian spinner Ravi Ashwin was a fearsome bowler, as no overseas batter ever dared to overpower him in Indian conditions. The off-spinner was widely known for his variety and gained considerable success in overseas contests as well.
Ashwin went on to pick 475 wickets on home soil, with 383 of them coming in Test cricket and 70 in ODIs, with 22 wickets in the T20 format as well.
3. Harbhajan Singh
Harbhajan Singh -The Turbanatar (Image Credit: X)
Singh, often called the Turbanatar, was considered one of the greatest to have played for India, especially under home conditions. Bhajji picked 376 on home soil, with 265 test wickets, 110 ODI wickets, and a wicket in T20I on home soil.
His debut Border-Gavaskar Trophy back in 2001 marked a stunning rise of the great spinner for India.
4. Ravindra Jadeja
Ravindra Jadeja with 600+ wickets for India (Image Credit: X)
Here comes probably the finest bowling all-rounder from India. After Kapil Dev and Yuvraj Singh, Ravindra Jadeja is often denoted as India’s best-ever all-rounder across formats.
Jadeja has picked up 603 international wickets, while he also has 6000+ international runs on his bat as well. Jadeja has picked 369 wickets on home soil, with 238 in red-ball cricket, 117 ODI wickets, and 14 wickets in T20 format in India.
5. Kapil Dev
One of India’s first yet best Indian pacers, Kapil Dev, the first World Cup-winning skipper, was India’s most successful bowler until Kumble surpassed him after almost 2 decades of his supremacy.
Kapil Dev picked 319 wickets at home, of which 219 were in the Test format and 100 wickets came in the limited-overs format in the sub-continent.
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