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Ravindra Jadeja became the seventh Indian bowler to pick up 300 test wickets in the second Test match against Bangladesh at Kanpur on Monday. 

He was just a wicket away at the start of the match and after dismissing Khaled Ahmed for a duck, the left-arm off spinner reached the milestone. The Gujarat bowler closed out the inning as India bowled out the visitors for 233 runs.

In this article, The Sporting News takes a look at the list of Indian bowlers with the highest wickets in tests.

List of highest wicket-takers for India in Tests

PlayerSpanMatInnsWktsBBIBBMAveEconSR510
A Kumble1990-200813223661910/7414/14929.652.6965.9358
R Ashwin2011-2024102925247/5913/14023.692.7851.3378
N Kapil Dev1978-19941312274349/8311/14629.642.7863.9232
Harbhajan Singh1998-20151031904178/8415/21732.462.8468.5255
Z Khan2000-2014921653117/8710/14932.943.2760.4111
I Sharma2007-20211051883117/7410/10832.403.1561.6111
RA Jadeja2012-2024741393007/4210/11024.002.4759.5132
BS Bedi1966-1979671182667/9810/19428.712.1480.3141
BS Chandrasekhar1964-197958972428/7912/10429.742.7065.9162
J Srinath1991-2002671212368/8613/13230.492.8564.0101

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Soham Mukherjee is a content producer for The Sporting News' India edition.