Most all-time Ashes wickets including most wickets in a series

Find out the five bowlers with the most wickets in Ashes history as well as who has taken the most wickets in an Ashes series.

Most wickets in the Ashes

Shane Warne - 195 wickets

Perhaps the greatest spin bowler of all time, Shane Warne leads the way in Ashes wickets.

Dismissing Mike Gatting with his very first ball in Ashes cricket, Warne would go on to take 34, 27, 24, 2, 31, 14, 40 and 43 scalps in his eight Ashes series appearances.

Glenn McGrath - 157 wickets

One of the best fast bowlers of all time, Glenn McGrath's remains the leading pace bowler in Ashes cricket with a formidable average of just 20.92.

His injury in 2005 proved to be a seminal moment in Ashes history. England would go on to win the Test to level the series, eventually going on to win the series 2-1, ending

Stuart Broad - 153 wickets

Perhaps England's best bowlers in Ashes cricket, Stuart Broad will forever be remembered for his devastating spell at Trent Bridge in 2015, taking a ridiculous eight wickets for just 17 runs.

Broad would secure a series draw for England in 2023 with the final delivery of his career.

Hugh Trumble - 141 wickets

Despite only playing in 31 Ashes Tests over 14 years, Hugh Trumble is the fourth-highest wicket-taker in Ashes cricket, and boasts the lowest average of the highest 16 wicket-takers with just 20.88.

Dennis Lillee - 128 wickets

An all-time Australian great and the outstanding fast bowler of his generation, Dennis Lillee loved Ashes cricket, taking 11 five-wicket hauls and four 10-wicket hauls in his 29 Tests.

Ian Botham - 128 wickets

Such a substantial part of Ashes folklore that not just a Test but an entire series was named after him, Ian Botham's finest hour came in 1981. Having relinquished his captaincy, which coincided with poor form with bat and ball, Botham top scored for England in terms of runs and wickets, leading the Three Lions to a 3-1 series win.

Most wickets in an Ashes series

Jim Laker - 46 wickets, 1956

In the 1956 Ashes, 88 Australian wickets fell. Jim Laker was responsible for more than half of them. One of the all-time great bowling performances across a series saw Laker take all 10 wickets of the second innings of the fourth Test and 19 across the match for a total of 46 over the summer at a miserly average of just 9.60.

In the five-match series, Australia never once scored 300 runs in an innings and would lose 2-1.

Terry Alderman - 42 wickets, 1981

England might not have known all that much about Terry Alderman as he made his Test debut in the 1981 Ashes, but they certainly did after. Alderman started with nine wickets at Trent Bridge and went back Down Under on the back of four five-wicket hauls. Of the 115 English wickets that fell that summer, 82 of them were taken by either Lillee or Alderman.

Rodney Hogg - 41 wickets, 1978/79

Another Australia punishing England on debut, Rodney Hogg opened his Test account with six wickets in Brisbane, following up with four straight five-wicket hauls in the second and third Tests of the series.

Hogg finished with 41 in total at an average of just 12.85.

Terry Alderman - 41 wickets, 1989

The start of Australian Ashes dominance came in 1989 with Alderman leading the charge for the tourists once more. Opening the series with a pair of five-wicket hauls at Headingley, Alderman took his 41 wickets at an average of 17.36.

Shane Warne - 40 wickets, 2005

In one of the most enthralling Test series of all time, only one Australian bowler took more than 20 wickets: Shane Warne, with 40. Warne almost single-handedly carried the tourists at times, taking at least four wickets in eight of his 10 innings, as well as two six-fers in the final Test at The Oval.