{"id":10360,"date":"2025-12-18T06:55:36","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T01:25:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=672689"},"modified":"2025-12-18T06:55:36","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T01:25:36","slug":"ashes-3rd-test-nathan-lyon-climbs-into-top-six-on-all-time-test-wickets-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/ashes-3rd-test-nathan-lyon-climbs-into-top-six-on-all-time-test-wickets-list\/","title":{"rendered":"Ashes 3rd Test: Nathan Lyon climbs into top six on all-time Test wickets list"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nathan Lyon\u2019s remarkable start at the Adelaide Test has pushed him past Glenn McGrath and into sixth place on the all-time list of leading Test wicket-takers, underlining his longevity and impact in international cricket.<\/p>\n<p>With his latest scalps against England, Lyon now has <strong>564 Test wickets<\/strong>, overtaking McGrath\u2019s tally of 563. The milestone places the Australian off-spinner among the greatest bowlers the game has seen, in elite company dominated by legends of the format.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Most wickets in Test cricket (all-time):<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>800<\/strong> \u2013 Muthiah Muralidaran<\/li>\n<li><strong>708<\/strong> \u2013 Shane Warne<\/li>\n<li><strong>704<\/strong> \u2013 James Anderson<\/li>\n<li><strong>619<\/strong> \u2013 Anil Kumble<\/li>\n<li><strong>604<\/strong> \u2013 Stuart Broad<\/li>\n<li><strong>564<\/strong>* \u2013 Nathan Lyon<\/li>\n<li><strong>563<\/strong> \u2013 Glenn McGrath<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Lyon is now Australia\u2019s second-highest Test wicket-taker after Shane Warne and continues to close in on the next group of global greats. With the series still ongoing, the veteran spinner has a chance to further enhance his legacy and climb even higher on cricket\u2019s most prestigious bowling list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nathan Lyon\u2019s remarkable start at the Adelaide Test has pushed him past Glenn McGrath and into sixth place on the\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":32865,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4057],"class_list":["post-10360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-top-stories"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10360\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}