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[dustypuss]

Weatherspoons crossword..Highest wicket taker in test cricket. 5-3 . Thanks

[mallyh]

Kapil Dev ?

[writesbad]

Kapil-Dev

[goodgoalie]

Is it a cryptic crossword? Otherwise the answer is Muttiah Muralitharan – 800

[mallyh]

i do this every month ,never won have you ?

[THECORBYLOON]

He has taken 434 Test wickets but he us only number ten on the list.

Muttiah Muralitharan is number one on the list with 800 test wickets

[dustypuss]

Kepil dev . Thank you

[THECORBYLOON]

How is he the, "Highest wicket taker in test cricket."?

[aelmpvw]

nothing to do with his height i suppose?

[aelmpvw]

no, that's not relevant

[THECORBYLOON]

I wondered that too but there's taller bowlers .

[jno]

bizarre question - or rather, bizarre answer. Here's the list

https://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/records/93276.html

Kapil Dev I think had just overtaken Hadlee when he retired, but that was 28 years ago. Has this one been sitting on Wetherspoons' tables for a long time?

[New Judge]

//Muttiah Muralitharan//

Ah, I remember the old "chucker". I also remember the law being inexplicably changed following analysis of his illegal action to one requiring the umpire to use a protractor and analyse the bowler's delivery in slo-mo.

[jno]

re height, Kapil Dev was 6 foot. Highest man in the current test seems to be Jamie Overton at 6 foot 5. In the previous match it was Kyle Jamieson, who's just under 6 foot 7. (Neither has yet taken 434 wickets, let alone 800.)

[New Judge]

//Has this one been sitting on Wetherspoons' tables for a long time?//

They don't clear the tables too often in Wethers. :-)

[New Judge]

Joel Garner is 6'9".

[jno]

the law wasn't changed because Muralitharan's action was found to be illegal - it was because everyone's was. The only one who bowled legally was Ramnaresh Sarwan, a leg spinner.

https://www.planetcricket.org/forums/threads/icc-study-reveals-that-99-chuck.7655/