Australia tempo bowler Mitchell Starc mentioned Thursday he couldn’t be in contrast with Wasim Akram after he surpassed the Pakistani nice because the main left-arm tempo bowler in Check historical past.
Starc’s six-wicket haul on day one of many second Ashes Check in Brisbane gave him 418 Check wickets, 4 greater than Akram.
“Wasim’s nonetheless a much better bowler than I’m,” mentioned Starc. “So so far as I’m involved, he’s nonetheless the top of left-armers and definitely he’s proper up there with the very best bowlers to ever play the sport.
“It’s good to be spoken of up round that, however I’ll simply attempt to maintain churning a couple of out.”
Starc led the Australian assault within the day-night match on the Gabba within the absence of his traditional strike companions Pat Cummins and Josh Hazlewood, who’re injured, and spinner Nathan Lyon, who was dropped.
“I don’t assume I’ve ever performed in an assault with out one of many three of them enjoying. So it’s a bit of bit totally different in that regard,” Starc mentioned.
The 35-year-old, who has taken 16 wickets within the sequence, was the one Australian bowler to bother the English batters persistently on Thursday.
Starc went previous Akram’s mark when he bagged England’s Harry Brook, caught at slip, for his 415th wicket and third of the innings.
Akram, extensively recognised as the best left-arm bowler the game has seen, performed 104 Exams for his 414 wickets. Starc, who made his debut on the Gabba 14 years in the past, was enjoying his 102nd Check and exhibits no signal of slowing down.
He took a career-best seven for 58 within the first innings of the opening Ashes Check at Perth. Starc is now fifteenth on the all-time wicket-taker record after transferring above Indian spinner Harbhajan Singh’s complete of 417.
He now has South Africa’s Shaun Pollock (421) in his sights and New Zealand’s Richard Hadlee (431). He wants simply 16 extra wickets to go previous probably the most prolific left-arm bowler of all-time — Sri Lanka spinner Rangana Herath, who claimed 433 wickets.
Printed on Dec 04, 2025