Most Test Wickets In 2025: Like 2024, and the few years before that, 2025 was a year where bowlers had a significant edge over the batsmen in Test cricket.
Given the incentive that the ICC World Test Championship points provide, home boards have prepared bowler-friendly surfaces. Batsmen have further compounded matters for themselves with their non-compact technique and fragile temperament. All in, these factors have made wicket-taking a far more comfortable routine than it used to be a decade ago.
Nonetheless, several bowlers stood out in 2025, helping their teams win Test matches and series, especially away from home.
South Africa won their first ICC trophy in the 21st century when they beat Australia in the ICC WTC 2025 final and also went on to win a Test series in India for the first time since 2021.
England drew 2-2 against India at home, but Bazball was ripped apart in the Ashes in Australia, who also blasted out the West Indies 3-0. Some good individual performances came from Bangladesh, New Zealand, and Zimbabwe as well.
Let us see who were the five highest wicket-takers in Test cricket in 2025.
Top 5 Bowlers With Most Test Wickets In 2025:
5. Jasprit Bumrah
In 2025, Jasprit Bumrah’s participation in Test cricket was limited to eight Test matches due to his back injury and the consequent surgery. He still returned with an impressive average of 22.16 as he claimed 31 wickets, the second-most for India.
He took three five-wicket hauls in Tests in 2025—two against England and one against South Africa—but India lost all of those three Tests.
4. Taijul Islam
Bangladesh’s left-arm spinner Taijul Islam was his team’s best bowler in 2025 in Test cricket, picking up 33 wickets in six Tests at an average of 26. This included five-fors against Zimbabwe and Sri Lanka.
3. Blessing Muzarabani
With Zimbabwe playing more Test matches than usual this year, fast bowler Blessing Muzarabani came to the fore, bagging 42 wickets in 10 Tests at 26 apiece.
Muzarabani snapped up three five-wicket hauls, one each against Ireland, Afghanistan, and Bangladesh.
2. Mohammed Siraj
With Bumrah playing three matches in the five-Test series in England, it was Mohammed Siraj who delivered thunderously during India’s two victories, finishing with the most wickets in the series, including delivering the winning blow in the last Test at The Oval.
Siraj ended 2025 with 43 wickets in 10 Tests at an average of 27, including two five-fors, both in England. He was India’s highest wicket-taker in Test cricket in 2025.
1. Mitchell Starc
In the absence of Pat Cummins, Josh Hazlewood, and Nathan Lyon during the Ashes, Mitchell Starc stepped up big time. Leading the pace attack, Starc was instrumental in Australia winning the first three Tests of the Ashes. Earlier in the year, he had been almost unplayable in the West Indies, where he collected a hat trick.
In 2025, Starc took the most wickets—51* wickets in 10 Tests at an average of only 17.15. This included three five-fors: two in the Ashes and one in the West Indies, where in Kingston he had unbelievable figures of 6/9.
Which bowler took the most wickets in 2025 in Test cricket?
Australia’s Mitchell Starc was the leading wicket-taker in 2025 with 51 scalps at an average of below 18. He claimed three five-wicket hauls this year, two of them in the Ashes.
(Stats updated till 25 December, 2025)
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