Chennai: Indian pace spearhead Ishant Sharma today became only the third Indian fast bowler to take 300 wickets in Test cricket after great Kapil Dev and Zaheer Khan .
He achieved the feat on Day Four of the first Test here at the MA Chidambaram Stadium when he got the wicket of England’s Daniel Lawrence in their second innings.
Ravichandran Ashwin, Anil Kumble and Harbhajan Singh are the other Indian bowlers to take 300 or more wickets in Test cricket.
Ishant, however, is the slowest Indian bowler to scalp 300 wickets. He reached the milestone in 98 Test matches.
Kumble remains the highest wicket-taker for India in Test cricket with 619 wickets ahead of Kapil Dev (434) and Harbhajan (417).
Ishant had made his Test debut in 2007 against Bangladesh in Dhaka.