County season wicket takers — County Championship 1962
D Shackleton is the first listed entry with 161 wickets in Redball’s recorded data for the 1962 County Championship. Equal totals are ordered as explained below.
Leading recorded entries
| Player | Wickets | Innings | Matches | Explore |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| D Shackleton | 161 | 61 | 32 | Player overview → |
| LJ Coldwell | 132 | 46 | 25 | Player overview → |
| OS Wheatley | 126 | 51 | 28 | Player overview → |
| A Wright | 111 | 49 | 26 | Player overview → |
| FJ Titmus | 110 | 42 | 24 | Player overview → |
| NI Thomson | 109 | 57 | 31 | Player overview → |
| DJ Shepherd | 108 | 56 | 32 | Player overview → |
| PJ Loader | 107 | 44 | 24 | Player overview → |
| WE Alley | 107 | 50 | 30 | Player overview → |
| DAD Sydenham | 107 | 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: 1962-05-02 to 1962-09-05. 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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