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Mutthaih Muralidharan has taken most wickets (800) in the Test Cricket.
414 wickets.
Murlidharan of Sri Lanka he had taken 800 wickets in test cricket
As of his most recent Test, in July 2010, Shahid Afridi has taken 48 wickets in 27 Test matches.
Shane Warne has taken 5 wickets 37 times in an inning of Test Cricket.
Shane Warne has taken 708 wickets in Test cricket, 293 wickets in One Day Internationals and 20 wickets in Twenty20 cricket.
Jim laker 19 wkts
kwame mbuga and keeg an hill
1 Richard Hadlee (431 test wickets)
800 in test, 519 in ODI.
This is not a very smart question as many cricketers havent got 500 test wickets, not just one "player". However to name one Ricky Ponting.
In test cricket, it is Anil Kumble, who has taken 156 wickets through lbw, while in odi it is Wasim Akram, who had taken 92.