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Records / Test matches / Bowling records / Youngest player to take ten-wickets-in-a-match

Player	Age	Bowl	Team	Opposition	Ground	Match Date	Scorecard
Enamul Haque jnr	18y 40d	12/200	Bangladesh	v Zimbabwe	Dhaka	14 Jan 2005	Test # 1735
Wasim Akram	18y 251d	10/128	Pakistan	v New Zealand	Dunedin	9 Feb 1985	Test # 1012
L Sivaramakrishnan	18y 333d	12/181	India	v England	Mumbai	28 Nov 1984	Test # 1001
Waqar Younis	18y 336d	10/106	Pakistan	v New Zealand	Lahore	18 Oct 1990	Test # 1152
ND Hirwani	19y 85d	16/136	India	v West Indies	Chennai	11 Jan 1988	Test # 1089
S Venkataraghavan	19y 332d	12/152	India	v New Zealand	Delhi	19 Mar 1965	Test # 583
AL Valentine	20y 41d	11/204	West Indies	v England	Manchester	8 Jun 1950	Test # 323
IK Pathan	20y 44d	11/96	India	v Bangladesh	Dhaka	10 Dec 2004	Test # 1725
Mohammad Zahid	20y 118d	11/130	Pakistan	v New Zealand	Rawalpindi	28 Nov 1996	Test # 1342
W Voce	20y 177d	11/149	England	v West Indies	Port of Spain	1 Feb 1930	Test # 189
C Sharma	20y 181d	10/188	India	v England	Birmingham	3 Jul 1986	Test # 1048
Harbhajan Singh	20y 251d	13/196	India	v Australia	Kolkata	11 Mar 2001	Test # 1535
Danish Kaneria	20y 256d	12/94	Pakistan	v Bangladesh	Multan	29 Aug 2001	Test # 1560
N Kapil Dev	21y 9d	11/146	India	v Pakistan	Chennai	15 Jan 1980	Test # 869
WPUJC Vaas	21y 43d	10/90	Sri Lanka	v New Zealand	Napier	11 Mar 1995	Test # 1292
DL Vettori	21y 44d	12/149	New Zealand	v Australia	Auckland	11 Mar 2000	Test # 1488
S Ramadhin	21y 54d	11/152	West Indies	v England	Lord's	24 Jun 1950	Test # 324
GA Lohmann	21y 71d	12/104	England	v Australia	The Oval	12 Aug 1886	Test # 24
WW Hall	21y 91d	11/126	West Indies	v India	Kanpur	12 Dec 1958	Test # 461
Maninder Singh	21y 197d	10/107	India	v Sri Lanka	Nagpur	27 Dec 1986	Test # 1063
BS Chandrasekhar	21y 210d	11/235	India	v West Indies	Mumbai (BS)	13 Dec 1966	Test # 610
Saqlain Mushtaq	22y 30d	10/187	Pakistan	v India	Chennai	28 Jan 1999	Test # 1442
Sikander Bakht	22y 101d	11/190	Pakistan	v India	Delhi	4 Dec 1979	Test # 863
MA Holding	22y 178d	14/149	West Indies	v England	The Oval	12 Aug 1976	Test # 781
DJ Nash	22y 208d	11/169	New Zealand	v England	Lord's	16 Jun 1994	Test # 1261
NA Foster	22y 252d	11/163	England	v India	Chennai	13 Jan 1985	Test # 1008
IT Botham	22y 273d	11/140	England	v New Zealand	Lord's	24 Aug 1978	Test # 830
C Pringle	22y 273d	11/152	New Zealand	v Pakistan	Faisalabad	26 Oct 1990	Test # 1153
I Sharma	22y 299d	10/108	India	v West Indies	Bridgetown	28 Jun 2011	Test # 1998
K Farnes	22y 335d	10/179	England	v Australia	Nottingham	8 Jun 1934	Test # 233
GE Palmer	22y 360d	11/165	Australia	v England	Sydney	17 Feb 1882	Test # 6
CG Macartney	23y 4d	11/85	Australia	v England	Leeds	1 Jul 1909	Test # 103
T Richardson	23y 13d	10/156	England	v Australia	Manchester	24 Aug 1893	Test # 41
DK Lillee	23y 23d	10/181	Australia	v England	The Oval	10 Aug 1972	Test # 702
A Kumble	23y 93d	11/128	India	v Sri Lanka	Lucknow	18 Jan 1994	Test # 1244
GD McKenzie	23y 100d	10/91	Australia	v India	Chennai	2 Oct 1964	Test # 566
Mohammad Asif	23y 104d	11/71	Pakistan	v Sri Lanka	Kandy	3 Apr 2006	Test # 1796
BAW Mendis	23y 142d	10/209	Sri Lanka	v India	Galle	31 Jul 2008	Test # 1884
CG Rackemann	23y 161d	11/118	Australia	v Pakistan	Perth	11 Nov 1983	Test # 966
J Briggs	23y 289d	11/74	England	v Australia	Lord's	19 Jul 1886	Test # 23
KAJ Roach	23y 290d	10/146	West Indies	v Australia	Port of Spain	15 Apr 2012	Test # 2041
HJ Tayfield	23y 329d	13/165	South Africa	v Australia	Melbourne	24 Dec 1952	Test # 361
AME Roberts	23y 347d	12/121	West Indies	v India	Chennai	11 Jan 1975	Test # 752

Ages are shown as at the start of the match concerned.
Only the first 10wm by any player is shown.

Records include the following recent matches:
England v New Zealand at Lord's, 1st Test, May 16-19, 2013 [Test # 2088]
Zimbabwe v Bangladesh at Harare, 2nd Test, Apr 25-29, 2013 [Test # 2087]
Zimbabwe v Bangladesh at Harare, 1st Test, Apr 17-20, 2013 [Test # 2086]

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