Former England fast bowler Stuart Broad, who finished his Test career with 604 wickets in 167 matches for the Poms from 2007 to 2023, has named his top 10 fast bowlers in Test cricket.
In his list, he included one pacer each from India and Pakistan, but there was surprisingly no place for star Australian left-arm pacer Mitchell Starc, who recently became the 10th-highest wicket-taker in the five-day format of the game.
In addition to Starc, Broad, who is the second-highest wicket-taker among fast bowlers in Test cricket, also ignored South African fast bowler Kagiso Rabada, who is one of the greatest South African pacers of all time.
In his top 10 list, Broad included one English, three Australian, one West Indian, two South African, one New Zealand
and two Asian pacers.
According to Broad, his former England teammate James Anderson is the No. 1 fast bowler in Test cricket.
Anderson represented England for more than two decades in the whites and picked up 704 wickets. No other pacer has managed to dismiss more batters than him in the five-day format of the game.
In Broad’s list, Anderson is followed by Australian great Glenn McGrath.
McGrath is Australia’s third-highest wicket-taker in Tests and holds the record for dismissing the most batters among pacers for the Baggy Greens in the five-day format of the game.
India’s Jasprit Bumrah is in third place in Broad’s list.
Bumrah, who lost his No. 1 position in the ICC Test bowler rankings last month, is arguably the greatest Indian pacer of all time. The 32-year-old speedster from Ahmedabad has accounted for the dismissal of 234 batters in 52 Tests played so far.
He is India’s highest wicket-taker in Tests in SENA countries and won the Player of the Series award in the 2024-25 edition of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy in Australia after dismissing more than 30 batters in five matches.
Former South African skipper Shaun Pollock is in fourth place, and he is followed by Curtly Ambrose of the West Indies, South Africa’s Dale Steyn, Pakistan’s Wasim Akram, Australia’s Pat Cummins, New Zealand’s Richard Hadlee and Mitchell Johnson of Australia.
