McGrath supplants Walsh as top quickie

Australia’s Glenn McGrath today became the greatest wicket-taking paceman in Test cricket with two wickets to overtake West Indian Cour...

Australia’s Glenn McGrath today became the greatest wicket-taking paceman in Test cricket with two wickets to overtake West Indian Courtney Walsh. McGrath captured the prized wicket of West Indian superstar Brian Lara (5) and new Indian skipper Rahul Dravid (0) to lift his Test tally to 520 wickets in his 113th Test match.

That enabled him to leapfrog one-time world record-holder Walsh’s total of 519 wickets.

“It is a big honour because Courtney was a cricketer that I looked up to and admired, a freak of a player who competed for 21 years straight without hardly taking a break,” McGrath said.

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“I can’t see myself catching the next two (Warne and Muralitharan) but without doubt my next goal is to reach the 600 Test wicket goal.”

Australian teammate and leg-spinner Shane Warne is the leading Test wicket-taker with 626 ahead of Sri Lankan spinner Muttiah Muralitharan (560), who took two wickets in Australia’s first innings here.

Dravid edged McGrath to wicket-keeper Adam Gilchrist for a six-ball duck and just before lunch, McGrath snared the coveted wicket of Lara, leg before wicket for five off eight balls on referral to the third umpire.

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