Most dismissals by a wicket-keeper in a Test match (male)

Three wicket-keepers have been credited with 11 dismissals – all catches – in a single Test match. Jack Russell (England) did it against South Africa at New Wanderers Stadium in Johannesburg, South Africa, in November–December 1995. AB de Villiers (South Africa) matched Russell’s feat against Pakistan, also in Johannesburg, in February 2013. And, on 7–10 December 2018, Rishabh Pant (India) took 11 catches against Australia at the Adelaide Oval in Australia.

In all three cases, six catches were taken in the first innings, and five in the second innings.

Russell also set the record for the most catches in a Test match (as opposed to dismissals, which can include stumpings and run-outs) against South Africa in 1995, which was subsequently matched by de Villiers and Pant.

In the same match in Johannesburg, de Villiers became the first wicket-keeper to take at least 10 catches and score a century in a Test match when he struck 103 not out in South Africa’s 2nd innings.

Pant’s catches – 11 of a Test record 35 in the match – helped India to only their sixth-ever Test win on Australian soil, and it was the first time in 12 attempts that India had won the first match of a Test series "Down Under".