da pinnacle： Yasir Shah became the quickest spinner in Test history to 150 wickets
da luck： Shiva Jayaraman28-Sep-2017Yasir Shah became the quickest spinner in Test history in terms of number of matches played to take 150 Test wickets. Australia’s Clarrie Grimmett, also a legspinner like Yasir, was the previous quickest to the landmark having taken 28 matches. Three offspinners – South Africa’s Hugh Tayfield, Pakistan’s Saeed Ajmal and India’s R Ashwin – complete the top five.ESPNcricinfo LtdYasir is also the joint-second quickest bowler ever to take 150 wickets. His compatriot Waqar Younis also took 27 matches. The record for the quickest bowler to 150 wickets belongs to England’s Sydney Barnes, who took just 24 matches. Click here for a list of the quickest bowlers to 150 Test wickets.
Bowler Team Mat Sydney Barnes England 24Waqar Younis Pakistan 27Yasir Shah Pakistan 27Clarrie Grimmett Australia 28Hugh Tayfield South Africa 29In spite of bowling largely in conditions that haven’t always been helpful to spinners, Yasir manages to rank third among spinners who are the fastest in terms of the number of balls to collect 150 dismissals. He has taken just 15 deliveries more than the number of balls R Ashwin took to reach the landmark. Stuart MacGill is the quickest spinner having taken 8312 deliveries.
Bowler Team DeliveriesStuart MacGill Australia 8312R Ashwin India 8380Yasir Shah Pakistan 8395Yasir has achieved this milestone in just two years and 341 days from his Test debut. Only two other bowlers – England’s Graeme Swann and Australia’s Mitchell Johnson – have been quicker than Yasir in terms of time taken from debut to reach this landmark. While Johnson took just two years and 129 days from debut, Swann took two years and 250 days.
Bowler Team TimeMitchell Johnson Australia 2 years, 139 daysGraeme Swann England 2 years, 250 daysYasir Shah Pakistan 2 years, 341 daysShane Warne Australia 2 years, 356 daysIan Botham England 2 years, 362 days