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PAK vs AUS: Pat Cummins bags 250 Test wickets to enter elite Australians’ list

PAK vs AUS: Pat Cummins bags 250 Test wickets to enter elite Australians’ list

With Mohammad Rizwan's wicket in PAK vs SA 2nd Test, Pat Cummins entered Top 10 wicket takes in Test cricket for Australia.

Australia captain Pat Cummins has entered an elite list of players to bag 250 Test wickets. With Mohammad Rizwan becoming his 250th victim in Test cricket during PAK vs AUS Day 4, Pat Cummins became the 10th Australian to bag to enter the record books. He is the eighth Australian pacer to bag 250 wickets in Tests and surpassed leg-spinner Richard Benaud.

With that wicket, he also became fifth fastest Australian to get to 250 Test wickets. In all formats combined, Pat Cummins now has 439 wickets

Cummins bowled two brilliant spells in the PAK vs AUS 2nd Test. After a five-wicket haul in the first innings, the Australian captain bagged another fifer in the second innings. And his fifer included a terrific delivery to dismiss Babar Azam that became the talk of the town.

Watch Pat Cummins’ 250th Test wicket

Most Test Wickets for Australia

Shane Warne: 708
Glenn McGrath: 563
Nathan Lyon: 505
Dennis Lillee: 652
Mitchell Starc: 340
Mitchell Johnson: 313
Brett Lee: 310
Craig McDermott: 291
Jason Gillespie: 259
Pat Cummins: 250

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