Kagiso Rabada becomes the fastest to reach 300 wickets in Test cricket: South Africa has started its tour of Bangladesh from 21 October. The first match of the two-Test series between the two is being played in Mirpur. In this match, Bangladesh team is batting first but South African bowlers have sent 5 major batsmen to the pavilion within 50 runs. During this, fast bowler Kagiso Rabada completed 300 wickets in Test career as soon as he made veteran Mushfiqur Rahim his victim. Along with this, he also broke the record of former Pakistan fast bowler Waqar Younis in a special case.
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Kagiso Rabada has been an important Test bowler for South Africa in all three formats for a long time and now he has also completed 300 wickets in Tests. Rabada achieved this milestone in the 65th match of his Test career and he has made the record of completing this figure fastest in terms of balls. This record was till now registered in the name of Waqar Younis but now Rabada has made it his name. Waqar had achieved 300 Test wickets in 12602 balls, while Rabada did this feat in just 11817 balls. In this list, South Africa's Dale Steyn is at the third place, who completed 300 wickets of his Test career in 12605 balls. At the same time, South Africa's Allan Donald is also at the fourth place, who did this in 13672 balls.
Let us tell you that Kagiso Rabada made his Test debut for South Africa against India in the year 2015 and emerged as an important member of the bowling unit after Dale Steyn's retirement. Rabada has bowled brilliantly many times at home as well as abroad. He is just 29 years old right now, so he will have a chance to reach the figure of 500 Test wickets.
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