Yasir Shah becomes joint second fastest to 100 Test wickets Yasir Shah took only 17 Tests to reach the milestone of 100 Test wicket...

Yasir Shah becomes joint second fastest to 100 Test wickets

Yasir Shah took only 17 Tests to reach the milestone of 100 Test wickets © AFP

Yasir Shah became the joint second fastest of all time in terms of number of Tests played to reach the milestone of 100 wickets. He got to this record when he clean bowled Miguel Cummins in West Indies' first innings of the Day-night Test in Dubai. It was a remarkable achievement for the 30-year old who made his debut against Australia at the same venue almost exactly two years ago.

A brief look into the records broken by Yasir on his way to 100 Test victims:

17 - Tests taken by Yasir Shah to reach 100 wickets, the joint second fastest of all time and the fastest in 85 years.

Fastest to 100 Test wickets:

Player	Team	Date	Time from debut	Tests	Balls	Avg	SR
George Lohmann	Eng	5 Jul 1886	9y 241d	16	3430	10.55	33.9
Charlie Turner	Aus	28 Jan 1887	8y 4d	17	5179	16.53	51.2
Syd Barnes	Eng	23-Feb-12	10y 72d	17	5377	21.44	53.2
Clarrie Grimmett	Aus	16-Jan-31	5y 323d	17	6891	28.06	68.2
Yasir Shah	Pak	13-Oct-16	1y 357d	17	5368	27.32	53.6
R Ashwin	Ind	14-Nov-13	2y 8d	18	5865	27.47	56.3

0 - Bowlers from Asia to reach the landmark of 100 wickets in Tests faster than Yasir's 17 matches. He broke the record of 18 Tests by Ravichandran Ashwin. The previous record for a Pakistan bowler was 19 Tests by Saeed Ajmal.

Fastest Asians to 100 Test wickets:

Player	Team	Start date	Time from debut	Tests	Balls	Avg	SR
Yasir Shah	Pak	13-Oct-16	1y 357d	17	5368	27.32	53.6
R Ashwin	Ind	14-Nov-13	2y 8d	18	5865	27.47	56.3
Saeed Ajmal	Pak	25-Jan-12	2y 205d	19	6251	27.31	62.5
EAS Prasanna	Ind	28-Nov-69	7y 322d	20	6836	26.86	66.3
Waqar Younis	Pak	2-Jan-93	3y 48d	20	3994	19.5	39.1
Mohammad Asif	Pak	29-Jul-10	5y 208d	20	4625	23.12	46.2
A Kumble	Ind	18-Oct-95	5y 70d	21	6839	24.35	63.3

+ The fastest by a Sri Lankan bowler is 27 Tests by Muttiah Muralitharan while the fastest for Bangladesh is 28 by Shakib Al Hasan.

2 - Spinners who have taken fewer deliveries than Yasir to take his 100th Test wicket. He is the fastest in the last 100 years of Test cricket, bettering the numbers of Stuart MacGill.

Least deliveries taken to 100 Test wickets:

Player	Team	Time	Tests	Balls	Avg	SR
Colin Blythe	Eng	8y 88d	19	4546	18.62	45.4
Bobby Peel	Eng	11y 242d	20	5216	16.98	51.6
Yasir Shah	Pak	1y 357d	17	5368	27.32	53.6
Stuart MacGill	Aus	5y 79d	21	5693	27.93	55.2
R Ashwin	Ind	2y 8d	18	5865	27.47	56.3
Graeme Swann	Eng	1y 250d	23	5985	28.14	57.5

2 - Bowlers reaching the milestone of 100 wickets in fewer days than Yasir. The Pakistan legspinner took a year and 357 days while the fastest to it were Mitchell Johnson and Graeme Swann, both on whom took just a year and 250 days.

Least days taken to 100 Test wickets:

Player	Team	Match Date	Debut	Time	Tests	Balls
Graeme Swann	Eng	18-Aug-10	11-Dec-08	1y 250d	23	5985
Mitchell Johnson	Aus	16-Jul-09	8-Nov-07	1y 250d	23	5808
Yasir Shah	Pak	13-Oct-16	22-Oct-14	1y 357d	17	5368
Ian Botham	Eng	2-Aug-79	28-Jul-77	2y 5d	19	4476
R Ashwin	Ind	14-Nov-13	6-Nov-11	2y 8d	18	5865
Steve Harmison	Eng	19-Aug-04	8-Aug-02	2y 11d	23	5144
Shane Warne	Aus	28-Jan-94	2-Jan-92	2y 26d	23	6840
Vernon Philander	SA	18-Dec-13	9-Nov-11	2y 39d	19	3939

1 - West Indies is the first opposition against whom Yasir Shah took a five-fer in his first innings. The previous best against an opposition in his first innings was 4 for 93 against England at the same venue last year.

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