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Player 10wm Bowl Team Opposition Ground Match Date Scorecard
M Muralitharan 4 11/196 Sri Lanka v India Colombo (SSC) 29 Aug 2001 Test # 1559
10/111 Sri Lanka v Bangladesh Colombo (SSC) 6 Sep 2001 Test # 1561
11/170 Sri Lanka v West Indies Galle 13 Nov 2001 Test # 1567
10/135 Sri Lanka v West Indies Kandy 21 Nov 2001 Test # 1570
M Muralitharan 4 10/115 Sri Lanka v England Birmingham 25 May 2006 Test # 1803
11/132 Sri Lanka v England Nottingham 2 Jun 2006 Test # 1804
10/172 Sri Lanka v South Africa Colombo (SSC) 27 Jul 2006 Test # 1810
12/225 Sri Lanka v South Africa Colombo (PSS) 4 Aug 2006 Test # 1812
CV Grimmett 3 10/88 Australia v South Africa Cape Town 1 Jan 1936 Test # 249
10/110 Australia v South Africa Johannesburg 15 Feb 1936 Test # 250
13/173 Australia v South Africa Durban 28 Feb 1936 Test # 251
CTB Turner 2 12/87 Australia v England Sydney 10 Feb 1888 Test # 27
10/63 Australia v England Lord's 16 Jul 1888 Test # 28
J Briggs 2 12/136 England v Australia Adelaide 24 Mar 1892 Test # 38
10/148 England v Australia The Oval 14 Aug 1893 Test # 40
GA Lohmann 2 15/45 England v South Africa Port Elizabeth 13 Feb 1896 Test # 47
12/71 England v South Africa Johannesburg 2 Mar 1896 Test # 48
T Richardson 2 11/173 England v Australia Lord's 22 Jun 1896 Test # 50
13/244 England v Australia Manchester 16 Jul 1896 Test # 51
H Trumble 2 10/128 Australia v England Manchester 24 Jul 1902 Test # 73
12/173 Australia v England The Oval 11 Aug 1902 Test # 74
SF Barnes 2 10/115 England v South Africa Leeds 8 Jul 1912 Test # 124
13/57 England v South Africa The Oval 12 Aug 1912 Test # 128
SF Barnes 2 10/105 England v South Africa Durban 13 Dec 1913 Test # 130
17/159 England v South Africa Johannesburg 26 Dec 1913 Test # 131
AA Mailey 2 10/302 Australia v England Adelaide 14 Jan 1921 Test # 137
13/236 Australia v England Melbourne 11 Feb 1921 Test # 138
AP Freeman 2 10/207 England v South Africa Leeds 13 Jul 1929 Test # 183
12/171 England v South Africa Manchester 27 Jul 1929 Test # 184
AV Bedser 2 11/145 England v India Lord's 22 Jun 1946 Test # 276
11/93 England v India Manchester 20 Jul 1946 Test # 277
JC Laker 2 11/113 England v Australia Leeds 12 Jul 1956 Test # 427
19/90 England v Australia Manchester 26 Jul 1956 Test # 428
FS Trueman 2 11/152 England v West Indies Lord's 20 Jun 1963 Test # 544
12/119 England v West Indies Birmingham 4 Jul 1963 Test # 545
DK Lillee 2 11/123 Australia v New Zealand Auckland 25 Feb 1977 Test # 798
11/165 Australia v England Melbourne 12 Mar 1977 Test # 800
RM Hogg 2 10/122 Australia v England Perth 15 Dec 1978 Test # 836
10/66 Australia v England Melbourne 29 Dec 1978 Test # 838
Imran Khan 2 11/79 Pakistan v India Karachi 23 Dec 1982 Test # 942
11/180 Pakistan v India Faisalabad 3 Jan 1983 Test # 945
Abdul Qadir 2 10/211 Pakistan v England The Oval 6 Aug 1987 Test # 1079
13/101 Pakistan v England Lahore 25 Nov 1987 Test # 1081
Waqar Younis 2 10/106 Pakistan v New Zealand Lahore 18 Oct 1990 Test # 1152
12/130 Pakistan v New Zealand Faisalabad 26 Oct 1990 Test # 1153
Saqlain Mushtaq 2 10/187 Pakistan v India Chennai 28 Jan 1999 Test # 1442
10/216 Pakistan v India Delhi 4 Feb 1999 Test # 1443
Harbhajan Singh 2 13/196 India v Australia Kolkata 11 Mar 2001 Test # 1535
15/217 India v Australia Chennai 18 Mar 2001 Test # 1539
SK Warne 2 10/159 Australia v Sri Lanka Galle 8 Mar 2004 Test # 1685
10/155 Australia v Sri Lanka Kandy 16 Mar 2004 Test # 1688
M Ntini 2 10/178 South Africa v Australia Johannesburg 31 Mar 2006 Test # 1795
10/145 South Africa v New Zealand Centurion 15 Apr 2006 Test # 1798
DW Steyn 2 10/93 South Africa v New Zealand Johannesburg 8 Nov 2007 Test # 1846
10/91 South Africa v New Zealand Centurion 16 Nov 2007 Test # 1848

Records include the following recent matches:
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]
New Zealand v England at Auckland, 3rd Test, Mar 22-26, 2013 [Test # 2084]

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