County season wicket takers — County Championship 1961
D Shackleton is the first listed entry with 153 wickets in Redball’s recorded data for the 1961 County Championship. Equal totals are ordered as explained below.
Leading recorded entries
| Player | Wickets | Innings | Matches | Explore |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| D Shackleton | 153 | 62 | 32 | Player overview → |
| JA Flavell | 139 | 52 | 27 | Player overview → |
| LJ Coldwell | 135 | 61 | 32 | Player overview → |
| JD Bannister | 131 | 63 | 32 | Player overview → |
| NI Thomson | 124 | 62 | 31 | Player overview → |
| FJ Titmus | 123 | 53 | 28 | Player overview → |
| DJ Shepherd | 122 | 55 | 32 | Player overview → |
| N Gifford | 118 | 54 | 30 | Player overview → |
| DW White | 117 | 58 | 30 | Player overview → |
| WB Bridge | 116 | 49 | 27 | Player overview → |
Ordered by season total; equal totals use player identifier for stable ordering. Seasons follow the calendar year of match start. Domestic first-class records exclude Tests. Entries tied at the tenth-row cutoff may not all be shown.
Recorded match dates: 1961-05-01 to 1961-09-02. Date spans do not imply complete coverage. Career aggregates may cover a different set of matches.
Displayed source rows last updated: unavailable. Figures retrieved: 2026-10-01. This is not a live score feed.
Source: Redball’s recorded statistics. Methodology, definitions and coverage.
County seasons are grouped by the calendar year of match start. This is not a live score feed.
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