Prabhat Jayasuriya completed his 100 Test wickets in just 32 innings.
The first match of the 2-match Test series between South Africa and Sri Lanka is being played on the grounds of Durban, in which a lot of excitement has been seen so far in the second day's play. While hosts Africa were all out for 191 runs in their first innings, Sri Lankan team bundled out the innings for just 42 runs. In this match, Sri Lankan team's spin bowler Prabhat Jayasuriya was successful in achieving a big feat in which he has now become the bowler for Sri Lanka to take 100 wickets in the least number of matches in Test cricket. In this matter, Prabhat has broken the record of his countryman Dilruan Perera, in which he had completed his 100 wickets in 25 Tests. Apart from this, he has now become jointly the second bowler in world cricket to achieve this figure in just 17 Tests.
Prabhat Jayasuriya became the third spinner to complete 100 wickets in just 17 tests.
Talking about Prabhat Jayasuriya, he is currently playing the role of the main spinner in the Sri Lankan Test, in which as soon as he took the wicket of Tony DeGeorge in the second innings of the South African team in the Durban Test match, he reached his 100th Test. Managed to complete the wickets. Prabhat took only 32 innings to reach this figure. With this, he has also become the third spinner in the history of Test cricket to take 100 wickets at the fastest pace in so few matches. Before this, Australia's Clary Grimmett did it in 17 Test matches and after that Pakistani team's spinner Yasir Shah also managed to take his 100 wickets in 17 Test matches. If we look at the record of taking the fastest 100 wickets from India, then it is in the name of Ravichandran Ashwin who had completed his 100 wickets in 18 Test matches.
Bowlers who completed 100 test wickets in least number of matches
George Lohman – 16 Tests (England)
Clary Turner – 17 Tests (Australia)
Sydney Barnes – 17 Tests (Australia)
Clarrie Grimmett – 17 Tests (Australia)
Yasir Shah – 17 Tests (Pakistan)
Prabhat Jayasuriya – 17 Tests (Sri Lanka)
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