Australia pace bowler Mitchell Starc said Thursday he could not be compared with Wasim Akram after he surpassed the Pakistani great as the leading left-arm pace bowler in Test history.<\/p>\n
Starc\u2019s six-wicket haul on day one of the second Ashes Test in Brisbane gave him 418 Test wickets, four more than Wasim.<\/p>\n
\u201cWasim\u2019s still a far better bowler than I am,\u201d said Starc.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo as far as I\u2019m concerned, he\u2019s still the pinnacle of left-armers and certainly he\u2019s right up there with the best bowlers to ever play the game.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s nice to be spoken of up around that, but I\u2019ll just try to keep churning a few out.\u201d Starc led the Australian attack in the day-night match at the Gabba in the absence of his usual strike partners Pat Cummins and Josh Hazlewood, who are injured, and spinner Nathan Lyon, who was dropped.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t think I\u2019ve ever played in an attack without one of the three of them playing,\u201d Starc said. \u201cSo it\u2019s a little bit different in that regard.\u201d<\/p>\n
The 35-year-old, who has taken 16 wickets in the series, was the only Australian bowler to trouble the English batsmen consistently on Thursday.<\/p>\n
Starc went past Wasim\u2019s mark when he bagged England\u2019s Harry Brook, caught at slip, for his 415th wicket and third of the innings.<\/p>\n
Wasim, widely recognised as the greatest left-arm bowler the sport has seen, played 104 Tests for his 414 wickets.<\/p>\n
Starc, who made his debut at the Gabba 14 years ago, was playing his 102nd Test and shows no sign of slowing down.<\/p>\n
He took a career-best 7-58 in the first innings of the opening Ashes Test at Perth.<\/p>\n
Starc is now 15th on the all-time wicket-taker list after moving above Indian spinner Harbhajan Singh\u2019s total of 417.<\/p>\n
He now has South Africa\u2019s Shaun Pollock (421) in his sights and New Zealand\u2019s Richard Hadlee (431).<\/p>\n
He needs just 16 more wickets to go past the most prolific left-arm bowler of all-time \u2014 Sri Lanka spinner Rangana Herath, who claimed 433 wickets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australia pace bowler Mitchell Starc said Thursday he could not be compared with Wasim Akram after he surpassed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":327840,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-327839","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-cricket","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327839\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/327840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}