All Test Ratings on the website are from 01/01/1950 onwards (Know Why). Most of our ratings are dynamic, and as new matches are played, the rating of earlier bowlers may change if current bowlers set new benchmarks. Brief explanation of the ratings is given before each section (Detailed Explanation). So, here are the Top 10 Indian Spin bowlers in Test Cricket since 1950.

*Note: All Test Ratings are updated till 2025-09-10

CONTENTS

3. PRIMARY CRITERIA

3.1. PROLIFIC

3.2. CONSISTENT

3.2.1. Against All Teams

3.2.2. Against Top Teams

3.3. ATTACKING

3.4. BEST BOWLING (WKTS)

3.5. PRIMARY RATING

4. CONDITIONS CRITERIA

4.1. HOME/AWAY

4.1.1. At Home

4.1.2. Away From Home

4.2. FAVOURABLE/UNFAVOURABLE CONDITIONS

4.2.1. Favourable Conditions Rating

4.2.1.1. Asians In Asia

4.2.2. Unfavourable Conditions Rating

4.2.2.1. Asians Outside Asia

4.3. CONDITIONS RATING

5. SECONDARY CRITERIA

5.1. TOP FORM AT HOME

5.2. TOP FORM AWAY

5.3. IMPACT INNINGS

5.4. SECONDARY RATING

6. OVERALL RATING

7. TOP TEAMS

7.1. Top Teams In Asia

7.2. Top Teams Outside Asia

Nations Filter

The Nations Rating filters the OVERALL Rating to show players only from India.

The Rating of the players from India remains the same as in the original OVERALL Rating.
Thus the Trend Setter can be from any nation and is not necessarily from India.

THE CRITERIA

CRITERIA	CONSTITUENTS
Primary	Wickets, Average, Strike Rate, Top Inns
Conditions	Home, Away, In Asia, Outside Asia
Secondary	Top Form Home, Top Form Away, Impact Inns

The Trend Setter (TS)

TS is the player which does the best in a criteria. The rating of all other players are calculated taking the TS as the benchmark. Know All About TS. Here is an example:-

TS Ave: 25.00; Player X Ave: 30.00; Section Points: 300.00
TS Points: 300.00(Max); Player X Points: TS Ave/Ave X 300 = 25.00/30.00 X 300 = 250.00
Ratings of all sections are calculated similarly with Ave being replaced by the Criteria Stat.

Top Teams (TT)

Some sections consider performances only against the top teams. Here is some information about the Top Teams:-

Win/Loss Ratio is used to determine top teams.
The top teams are calculated by decades.
Further, they are divided into In Asia and Outside Asia.
A bowler's performace is counted in TT if it comes in the specific condition and in the specific decade.

QUALIFICATION

Min Innings (TT)	30
Min Career Wkts	50

PRIMARY CRITERIA

CRITERIA	STAT	POINTS
Prolific	Wickets Taken	200.00
Consistent	Average	400.00
Attacking	Strike Rate	300.00
Best Bowling	Top Bowling Performances	100.00

PROLIFIC

The Eras

The time period from 1950 to present is divided into eras for this section. This is because less cricket was played earlier. To make it fair for earlier players they are compared with players of the same period with a slight reduction in points. Know More About Eras.

Era 1	MP before 1991
Era 2	MP between 1990 And 2016
Era 3	MP greater than 2015

Criteria: Points For Wickets Taken

RANK	ERA 1	NAT	FP	LP	MP	INNS	WKTS	RAT
TS	LR Gibbs	WI	1958	1976	1967	148	309	140.00
1	BS Bedi	IND	1966	1979	1972.5	118	266	120.52
2	BS Chandrasekhar	IND	1964	1979	1971.5	97	242	109.64
3	EAS Prasanna	IND	1962	1978	1970	86	189	85.63
4	SP Gupte	IND	1951	1961	1956	61	149	67.51
5	DR Doshi	IND	1979	1983	1981	55	114	51.65
6	NS Yadav	IND	1979	1987	1983	61	102	46.21

RANK	ERA 2	NAT	FP	LP	MP	INNS	WKTS	RAT
TS	M Muralitharan	SL	1992	2010	2001	230	800	200.00
1	A Kumble	IND	1990	2008	1999	236	619	154.75
2	Harbhajan Singh	IND	1998	2015	2006.5	190	417	104.25

RANK	ERA 3	NAT	FP	LP	MP	INNS	WKTS	RAT
TS	NM Lyon	AUS	2011	2025	2018	262	567	170.00
1	R Ashwin	IND	2011	2024	2017.5	200	537	161.01
2	RA Jadeja	IND	2012	2025	2018.5	167	348	104.34

CONSISTENT

R Ave

Relative Average (R Ave) is a more accurate type of average. Know How It Is Calculated. Briefly it takes into account:-

Strength of Opposition.
Venues at which a player has played.
Time Period in which a bowler has been active

Criteria: Points For Relative Average

Min Qualification For TS
Min Wickets	100

Against All Teams

RANK	BOWLER	INNS	RUNS	WKTS	AVE	R AVE	RAT
TS	M Muralitharan	230	18180	800	22.73	23.65	200.00
1	R Ashwin	200	12891	537	24.01	25.53	185.26
2	RA Jadeja	167	8741	348	25.12	26.13	180.96
3	DR Doshi	55	3502	114	30.72	28.92	163.53
4	A Kumble	236	18355	619	29.65	29.04	162.88
5	SP Gupte	61	4403	149	29.55	29.09	162.57
6	BS Bedi	118	7637	266	28.71	29.28	161.50
7	BS Chandrasekhar	97	7199	242	29.75	29.60	159.75
8	EAS Prasanna	86	5742	189	30.38	31.46	150.33
9	Harbhajan Singh	190	13537	417	32.46	32.67	144.78
10	NS Yadav	61	3580	102	35.10	33.78	140.00

Against Top Teams

RANK	BOWLER	INNS	RUNS	WKTS	AVE	R AVE	RAT
TS	SK Warne	211	14215	559	25.43	24.22	200.00
1	RA Jadeja	127	7166	272	26.35	26.24	184.58
2	R Ashwin	144	9571	366	26.15	26.66	181.69
3	BS Chandrasekhar	83	6222	206	30.20	28.82	168.11
4	DR Doshi	53	3270	106	30.85	28.94	167.37
5	A Kumble	159	12785	407	31.41	29.12	166.36
6	SP Gupte	51	3734	115	32.47	29.96	161.68
7	BS Bedi	104	6917	225	30.74	30.23	160.27
8	EAS Prasanna	76	5086	158	32.19	32.28	150.07
9	Harbhajan Singh	132	10032	296	33.89	32.46	149.22
10	NS Yadav	57	3430	91	37.69	35.25	137.44

ATTACKING

R SR

Relative Strike Rate (R SR) for bowlers is calculated using the same method as R Ave with average being replaced with SR.

Criteria: Points For R SR or Balls/Wkt

Min Qualification For TS
Min Wickets	100

RANK	BOWLER	INNS	BALLS	WKTS	SR	R SR	RAT
TS	SK Warne	273	40704	708	57.49	58.23	300.00
1	BS Chandrasekhar	97	15963	242	65.96	58.72	297.51
2	R Ashwin	200	27241	537	50.73	63.14	276.65
3	SP Gupte	61	11284	149	75.73	64.58	270.50
4	A Kumble	236	40852	619	66.00	68.05	256.70
5	EAS Prasanna	86	14353	189	75.94	69.37	251.82
6	DR Doshi	55	9322	114	81.77	70.47	247.91
7	RA Jadeja	167	20241	348	58.16	71.52	244.26
8	NS Yadav	61	8360	102	81.96	72.12	242.24
9	BS Bedi	118	21364	266	80.32	72.99	239.32
10	Harbhajan Singh	190	28580	417	68.54	75.88	230.22

BEST BOWLING (WKTS)

BBW

In this criteria, we have taken the top 7 bowling performances by Wkts of a bowler. Best Bowling By Wickets (BBW) is simply the total wickets taken in the 7 innings divided by 7.

Criteria: Points For Wkts Taken In Top 7 Inns

RANK	BOWLER	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	AVE WT	RAT
TS	M Muralitharan	9/51	9/65	8/46	8/70	8/87	7/46	7/84	8.00	100.00
1	A Kumble	10/74	8/141	7/48	7/59	7/63	7/115	6/53	7.43	92.86
2	Harbhajan Singh	8/84	7/48	7/62	7/87	7/120	7/123	7/133	7.14	89.29
3	R Ashwin	7/59	7/66	7/71	7/83	7/103	7/145	6/31	6.86	85.71
4	BS Chandrasekhar	8/79	7/157	6/38	6/52	6/52	6/76	6/90	6.43	80.36
5	SP Gupte	9/102	7/128	7/162	6/90	5/18	5/45	5/63	6.29	78.57
6	EAS Prasanna	8/76	6/74	6/94	6/104	6/141	5/32	5/42	6.00	75.00
7	BS Bedi	7/98	6/42	6/71	6/127	6/226	5/27	5/37	5.86	73.21
7	RA Jadeja	7/42	7/48	6/63	6/138	5/21	5/30	5/41	5.86	73.21
9	DR Doshi	6/102	6/103	5/39	5/43	5/85	5/90	4/69	5.14	64.29
10	NS Yadav	5/76	5/99	5/131	4/35	4/40	4/49	4/84	4.43	55.36

PRIMARY RATING

The total of the above four criteria comes out to be 1,000.00 points. The Primary Rating is the addition of the points a bowler scored in the four criteria. The Weightage of the Rating is 40%.

RANK	BOWLER	PRO	CON	ATT	BBW	RAT	PRI PTS
1	R Ashwin	161.01	366.96	276.65	85.71	890.33	356.13
2	A Kumble	154.75	329.24	256.70	92.86	833.55	333.42
3	BS Chandrasekhar	109.64	327.86	297.51	80.36	815.37	326.15
4	RA Jadeja	104.34	365.54	244.26	73.21	787.36	314.94
5	BS Bedi	120.52	321.77	239.32	73.21	754.82	301.93
6	SP Gupte	67.51	324.25	270.50	78.57	740.82	296.33
7	Harbhajan Singh	104.25	294.00	230.22	89.29	717.75	287.10
8	EAS Prasanna	85.63	300.40	251.82	75.00	712.85	285.14
9	DR Doshi	51.65	330.90	247.91	64.29	694.74	277.90
10	NS Yadav	46.21	277.44	242.24	55.36	621.25	248.50

CONDITIONS CRITERIA

The Conditions

The Conditions Ratings are calculated by applying the four criteria of the Primary Rating to diffirent conditions. If Innings are less than the Qualification than the Player gets 50% of the Points. Click on the Ratings to see how they were calculated.

The four conditions criteria and thier weightage is as follows:-

CRITERIA	POINTS
Home	30.00
Away	120.00
Favourable Conditions	30.00
Unfavourable Conditions	120.00

HOME/AWAY

HM/AW RATING

Points to note:-

U.A.E. is considered as a second Home for Pakistan and Afghanistan.
All Home and Away stats of Pakistani and Afghani bowlers are calculated accordingly.

At Home

Min Innings Vs Top Teams: 15

RANK	BOWLER	INNS	WKTS	AVE	SR	RAT	WTG
1	R Ashwin	127	383	21.57	46.03	863.88	25.92
2	A Kumble	115	350	24.89	59.41	842.57	25.28
3	RA Jadeja	105	256	20.96	51.20	790.95	23.73
4	BS Chandrasekhar	55	142	27.70	64.68	773.25	23.20
5	Harbhajan Singh	103	265	28.77	64.11	733.62	22.01
6	DR Doshi	37	77	25.39	73.38	721.99	21.66
7	BS Bedi	54	137	23.99	75.85	714.92	21.45
8	SP Gupte	36	84	30.35	76.76	707.44	21.22
9	EAS Prasanna	41	95	26.95	70.45	665.42	19.96
10	NS Yadav	49	77	34.10	76.32	611.33	18.34

Away From Home

Min Innings Vs Top Teams: 15

RANK	BOWLER	INNS	WKTS	AVE	SR	RAT	WTG
1	R Ashwin	73	154	30.05	62.42	767.24	92.07
2	BS Chandrasekhar	42	100	32.66	67.78	765.56	91.87
3	A Kumble	121	269	35.86	74.57	723.91	86.87
4	BS Bedi	64	129	33.72	85.06	701.31	84.16
5	SP Gupte	25	65	28.52	74.40	683.30	82.00
6	EAS Prasanna	45	94	33.85	81.49	674.10	80.89
7	RA Jadeja	62	92	36.70	77.55	609.55	73.15
8	Harbhajan Singh	87	152	38.90	76.26	593.32	71.20
9	DR Doshi	18	37	41.81	99.24	569.48	68.34
10	NS Yadav	12	25	38.16	99.32	500.00	60.00

FAVOURABLE/UNFAVOURABLE CONDITIONS

Favourable/Unfavourable Conditions Rating

Points to note:-

Unfavourable Conditions (UC) is Outside Asia for Spinners and In Asia for Pacers.
Favourable Conditions (FC) are the opposite.

Favourable Conditions Rating

Asians In Asia

Min Innings Vs Top Teams: 15

RANK	BOWLER	INNS	WKTS	AVE	SR	RAT	WTG
1	R Ashwin	145	433	21.76	45.87	894.94	26.85
2	A Kumble	144	419	27.00	61.37	835.16	25.05
3	RA Jadeja	109	269	21.33	51.14	804.07	24.12
4	BS Chandrasekhar	59	150	28.79	65.07	803.54	24.11
5	SP Gupte	45	105	28.81	77.23	732.82	21.98
6	BS Bedi	60	143	26.13	78.45	730.81	21.92
7	DR Doshi	42	85	28.74	76.06	718.58	21.56
8	Harbhajan Singh	130	300	32.02	68.61	706.83	21.21
9	EAS Prasanna	44	97	28.98	74.01	676.48	20.29
10	NS Yadav	50	78	36.18	81.12	605.03	18.15

Unfavourable Conditions Rating

Asians Outside Asia

Min Innings Vs All Teams: 10

RANK	BOWLER	INNS	WKTS	AVE	SR	RAT	WTG
1	A Kumble	92	200	35.20	75.70	826.58	99.19
2	BS Chandrasekhar	38	92	31.32	67.41	797.76	95.73
3	R Ashwin	55	104	33.34	70.94	796.09	95.53
4	BS Bedi	58	123	31.72	82.48	780.55	93.67
5	EAS Prasanna	42	92	31.86	77.98	750.76	90.09
6	Harbhajan Singh	60	117	33.61	68.34	706.93	84.83
7	SP Gupte	16	44	31.32	72.16	689.92	82.79
8	RA Jadeja	58	79	38.00	82.09	646.84	77.62
9	NS Yadav	11	24	31.58	84.71	620.83	74.50
10	DR Doshi	13	29	36.52	98.52	569.89	68.39

CONDITIONS RATING

The Conditions Rating is the addition of the points a bowler scored in the four criteria. The Weightage of the Rating is 30%.

RANK	BOWLER	AWAY	HOME	UC	FC	CON PTS
1	R Ashwin	767.24	215.97	796.09	223.74	240.36
2	A Kumble	723.91	210.64	826.58	208.79	236.39
3	BS Chandrasekhar	765.56	193.31	797.76	200.88	234.90
4	BS Bedi	701.31	178.73	780.55	182.70	221.20
5	EAS Prasanna	674.10	166.35	750.76	169.12	211.24
6	SP Gupte	683.30	176.86	689.92	183.20	208.00
7	Harbhajan Singh	593.32	183.40	706.93	176.71	199.24
8	RA Jadeja	609.55	197.74	646.84	201.02	198.62
9	DR Doshi	569.48	180.50	569.89	179.64	179.94
10	NS Yadav	500.00	152.83	620.83	151.26	170.99

SECONDARY CRITERIA

The Secondary Rating consists of three parts. If Innings are less than the Qualification than the Player gets 50% of the Points. Click on the Rating Titles to see how they were calculated.

The three secondary criteria and thier weightage is as follows:-

CRITERIA	POINTS
Top Form Home	30.00
Top Form Away	120.00
Impact Innings	150.00

TF RATING

Points to note about Top Form Rating:-

Top Form (TF) is calculated by taking the best 30 consecutive innings of a bowler.
There are two TF Ratings used in our OVERALL Rating: Home and Away.

TOP FORM AT HOME

Min Innings Vs All Teams: 10

RANK	BOWLER	INNS	WKTS	AVE	SR	RAT	WTG
1	A Kumble	30	113	19.12	49.35	855.26	25.66
2	R Ashwin	30	113	18.06	41.08	806.50	24.19
3	Harbhajan Singh	30	104	21.53	51.83	793.21	23.80
4	BS Chandrasekhar	30	91	25.95	59.31	711.49	21.34
5	RA Jadeja	30	76	20.07	39.50	690.66	20.72
6	SP Gupte	30	77	28.68	72.75	680.22	20.41
7	BS Bedi	30	88	21.44	70.28	666.49	19.99
8	EAS Prasanna	30	77	25.64	64.19	622.88	18.69
9	DR Doshi	30	63	23.54	71.11	609.37	18.28
10	NS Yadav	30	46	33.63	73.48	496.19	14.89

TOP FORM AWAY

Min Innings Vs All Teams: 10

RANK	BOWLER	INNS	WKTS	AVE	SR	RAT	WTG
1	R Ashwin	30	78	23.35	44.86	822.16	98.66
2	EAS Prasanna	30	83	27.18	64.24	770.83	92.50
3	BS Chandrasekhar	30	78	29.28	58.92	769.20	92.30
4	A Kumble	30	79	31.68	57.39	723.15	86.78
5	BS Bedi	30	77	29.75	73.94	690.24	82.83
6	SP Gupte	25	65	28.52	74.40	646.02	77.52
7	Harbhajan Singh	30	70	34.53	68.16	634.83	76.18
8	RA Jadeja	30	54	29.04	60.46	616.48	73.98
9	DR Doshi	18	37	41.81	99.24	502.94	60.35
10	NS Yadav	12	25	38.16	99.32	474.97	57.00

IMPACT INNINGS

Impact Innings (II)

Impact Innings are those innings which have an impact either in terms of wickets or strike rate. Know All About II. These are the criteria for an inning to be included in II:-

A Bowler takes equal to or more wickets than 5.
A Bowler equal to or more wickets than 2 at a good AVE or SR.
1st and 2nd; and 3rd and 4th inns are clubbed together.
The AVE should be less than 80% of the AVE of the better innings or
The SR should be less than 80% of the SR of the better innings.

Min Innings Vs Top Teams: 30

RANK	BOWLER	INNS	II	II Perc	RAT	WTG
1	A Kumble	236	115	48.73	778.86	116.83
2	R Ashwin	200	94	47.00	756.32	113.45
3	RA Jadeja	167	74	44.31	672.39	100.86
4	BS Chandrasekhar	97	42	43.30	661.85	99.28
5	BS Bedi	118	46	38.98	626.49	93.97
6	EAS Prasanna	86	32	37.21	582.88	87.43
7	SP Gupte	61	24	39.34	575.73	86.36
8	NS Yadav	61	23	37.70	568.51	85.28
9	DR Doshi	55	22	40.00	558.55	83.78
10	Harbhajan Singh	190	68	35.79	555.55	83.33

SECONDARY RATING

The Secondary Rating is the addition of the points a bowler scored in the three criteria. The Weightage of the Rating is 30%.

RANK	BOWLER	TF HM	TF AW	II	SEC RAT
1	R Ashwin	24.19	98.66	113.45	236.30
2	A Kumble	25.66	86.78	116.83	229.26
3	BS Chandrasekhar	21.34	92.30	99.28	212.93
4	EAS Prasanna	18.69	92.50	87.43	198.62
5	BS Bedi	19.99	82.83	93.97	196.80
6	RA Jadeja	20.72	73.98	100.86	195.56
7	SP Gupte	20.41	77.52	86.36	184.29
8	Harbhajan Singh	23.80	76.18	83.33	183.31
9	DR Doshi	18.28	60.35	83.78	162.42
10	NS Yadav	14.89	57.00	85.28	157.16

OVERALL RATING

OVERALL Rating is the addition of the points of all the above criteria. The rating is out of 1,000 Pts.

RANK	OV RANK	BOWLER	NAT	PRI RAT	CON RAT	SEC RAT	FIN RAT
1	4	R Ashwin	IND	356.13	240.36	236.30	832.80
2	5	A Kumble	IND	333.42	236.39	229.26	799.08
3	7	BS Chandrasekhar	IND	326.15	234.90	212.93	773.98
4	13	BS Bedi	IND	301.93	221.20	196.80	719.92
5	14	RA Jadeja	IND	314.94	198.62	195.56	709.12
6	17	EAS Prasanna	IND	285.14	211.24	198.62	695.00
7	20	SP Gupte	IND	296.33	208.00	184.29	688.61
8	26	Harbhajan Singh	IND	287.10	199.24	183.31	669.65
9	39	DR Doshi	IND	277.90	179.94	162.42	620.25
10	49	NS Yadav	IND	248.50	170.99	157.16	576.65

TOP TEAMS

Top Teams In Asia

DECADE OF MAT	1	2	3	4	5	6
1950s	AUS	WI	PAK	IND	ENG
1960s	WI	AUS	PAK	IND	ENG	SA
1970s	PAK	ENG	IND	WI	SA	AUS
1980s	PAK	WI	ENG	NZ	AUS
1990s	IND	PAK	SA	AUS	WI
2000s	AUS	IND	SL	PAK	SA	ENG
2010s	IND	PAK	SL	ENG	SA	AUS
2020s	IND	AUS	PAK	NZ	SA	ENG