• Starc breaks Wasim's Test record

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    Australia veteran Mitchell Starc became the most prolific left-arm paceman in Test history on Thursday, surpassing Pakistan great Wasim Akram.

    The 35-year-old bagged England’s Harry Brook at the Gabba in Brisbane on day one of the day-night second Ashes Test for his 415th wicket since his debut at the same ground 14 years ago.

    It moved him past Akram, widely recognised as the greatest left-arm bowler the sport has seen.

    Akram played 104 Tests for his 414 wickets, with Starc reaching the milestone in his 102nd, helped by a career-best 7-58 in the first innings of the opening Ashes Test at Perth.

    Starc is now 16th on the all-time wicket-taker list and could move above both India’s Harbhajan Singh (417) and South Africa’s Shaun Pollock (421) in the current pink-ball Test.

    After that he will have New Zealand’s Richard Hadlee (431) in his sights.

    – AFP

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