Stats: Most 10-Wicket Wins in Test Cricket

Winning a Test match isn’t a straightforward thing, as a team needs to put in the hard yards to keep the opponent on the bay. 

Now, imagine grinding hard on the field for 4-5 days and sweeping away a Test match by 10 wickets. It is a thing to savour for a long time.

Chasing a target in the 4th innings isn’t considered an easy task, let alone do it without losing a wicket. However, teams have logged 10-wicket victories numerous times in Test cricket.

Here we’ll glance at the teams with the most 10-wicket wins in Test cricket. (You can look at the same stat for T20I here)

Most 10-Wicket Wins in Tests

Key Insights

Australia have logged the most 10-wicket wins in Test cricket, and they are the only team to win 30 or more matches by that margin.

0: Bangladesh, Afghanistan, and Ireland haven’t won any Test matches by a 10-wicket margin.

170 is the highest target chased in the 4th Test innings by a team without losing a wicket. Australia did it twice, first against the West Indies in 1930 (172/0) and then in 2017 against England (173/0).

Australia is the only team to successfully chase targets greater than 100 runs 5 times in Test cricket by keeping all 10 wickets in hand.

2002 registered 6 instances of 10-wicket wins in Test cricket — the most in a calendar year — and all wins belonged to 6 different teams.

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