Sawt Falasteen - Starc becomes most prolific left-arm quick in Test history

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Starc becomes most prolific left-arm quick in Test history / Photo: DAVID GRAY - AFP

Starc becomes most prolific left-arm quick in Test history

SPORTS 04.12.2025

Australian veteran Mitchell Starc became the most prolific left-arm paceman in Test history on Thursday, surpassing Pakistan great Wasim Akram.

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The 35-year-old bagged England's Harry Brook at the Gabba in Brisbane on day one of the day-night second Ashes Test for his 415th wicket since his debut at the same ground 14 years ago.

It moved him past Akram, widely recognised as the greatest left-arm bowler the sport has seen.

Akram played 104 Tests for his 414 wickets with Starc reaching the milestone in his 102nd, helped by a career-best 7-58 in the first innings of the opening Ashes Test at Perth.

Starc is now 16th on the all-time wicket-taker list and could move above both India's Harbhajan Singh (417) and South Africa's Shaun Pollock (421) in the current pink-ball Test.

After that he will have New Zealand's Richard Hadlee (431) in his sights.

T.Samara--SF-PST

Sawt Falasteen - Starc becomes most prolific left-arm quick in Test history

Starc becomes most prolific left-arm quick in Test history

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