Bowling Most 5wi Career

Players

Most five-wickets-in-an-innings

Player	Span	Mat	Inns	Balls	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	BBI	Ave	Econ	SR	4	5	10
NH Fairbrother (ENG)	1992-1992	5	1	6	1.0	0	9	0	-	-	9.00	0.00	0	0	0
ME Waugh (AUS)	1992-1992	3	1	6	1.0	0	6	0	-	-	6.00	0.00	0	0	0
ST Jayasuriya (SL)	1992-1992	2	1	12	2.0	0	10	0	-	-	5.00	0.00	0	0	0
Ijaz Ahmed (PAK)	1992-1992	1	1	24	4.0	0	29	0	-	-	7.25	0.00	0	0	0
GA Hick (ENG)	1992-1992	5	2	26	4.2	0	15	2	2/7	7.50	3.46	13.00	0	0	0
GC Small (ENG)	1992-1992	1	1	31	5.1	0	28	1	1/28	28.00	5.41	31.00	0	0	0
AR Border (AUS)	1992-1992	3	2	36	6.0	0	36	0	-	-	6.00	0.00	0	0	0
A Ranatunga (SL)	1992-1992	3	2	36	6.0	1	33	0	-	-	5.50	0.00	0	0	0
EAR de Silva (SL)	1992-1992	1	1	60	10.0	0	47	1	1/47	47.00	4.70	60.00	0	0	0
Tanvir Mehdi (PAK)	1992-1992	1	1	66	11.0	0	72	1	1/72	72.00	6.54	66.00	0	0	0
DG Cork (ENG)	1992-1992	1	1	66	11.0	1	37	1	1/37	37.00	3.36	66.00	0	0	0
AP Gurusinha (SL)	1992-1992	3	3	84	14.0	1	59	1	1/21	59.00	4.21	84.00	0	0	0
SD Anurasiri (SL)	1992-1992	2	2	90	15.0	0	64	1	1/44	64.00	4.26	90.00	0	0	0
Asif Mujtaba (PAK)	1992-1992	4	3	108	18.0	0	126	0	-	-	7.00	0.00	0	0	0
DR Pringle (ENG)	1992-1992	2	2	120	20.0	2	77	6	4/42	12.83	3.85	20.00	1	0	0
UC Hathurusingha (SL)	1992-1992	2	2	120	20.0	1	72	1	1/38	72.00	3.60	120.00	0	0	0
DA Reeve (ENG)	1992-1992	2	2	126	21.0	2	88	2	1/31	44.00	4.19	63.00	0	0	0
TM Moody (AUS)	1992-1992	3	3	138	23.0	1	109	0	-	-	4.73	0.00	0	0	0
RS Kalpage (SL)	1992-1992	3	3	144	24.0	0	111	2	2/52	55.50	4.62	72.00	0	0	0
Aamer Sohail (PAK)	1992-1992	5	4	156	26.0	0	137	5	2/22	27.40	5.26	31.20	0	0	0
GRJ Matthews (AUS)	1992-1992	3	3	161	26.5	1	101	5	2/33	20.20	3.76	32.20	0	0	0
MR Whitney (AUS)	1992-1992	3	3	162	27.0	2	100	4	2/33	25.00	3.70	40.50	0	0	0
GP Wickramasinghe (SL)	1992-1992	3	3	168	28.0	1	107	2	1/35	53.50	3.82	84.00	0	0	0
CJ McDermott (AUS)	1992-1992	3	3	170	28.2	2	138	3	1/30	46.00	4.87	56.66	0	0	0
Waqar Younis (PAK)	1992-1992	3	3	170	28.2	0	167	9	4/73	18.55	5.89	18.88	1	0	0
CPH Ramanayake (SL)	1992-1992	3	3	173	28.5	2	131	5	2/34	26.20	4.54	34.60	0	0	0
Naved Anjum (PAK)	1992-1992	4	4	180	30.0	0	132	2	2/48	66.00	4.40	90.00	0	0	0
AIC Dodemaide (AUS)	1992-1992	3	3	180	30.0	2	133	3	1/39	44.33	4.43	60.00	0	0	0
CC Lewis (ENG)	1992-1992	4	4	204	34.0	3	155	3	2/47	51.66	4.55	68.00	0	0	0
Wasim Akram (PAK)	1992-1992	4	4	250	41.4	3	180	4	2/41	45.00	4.32	62.50	0	0	0
Aaqib Javed (PAK)	1992-1992	5	5	282	47.0	0	260	8	3/54	32.50	5.53	35.25	0	0	0
PAJ DeFreitas (ENG)	1992-1992	5	5	311	51.5	6	200	8	3/33	25.00	3.85	38.87	0	0	0
Mushtaq Ahmed (PAK)	1992-1992	5	5	312	52.0	2	243	2	1/34	121.50	4.67	156.00	0	0	0
RK Illingworth (ENG)	1992-1992	5	5	324	54.0	1	230	7	3/34	32.85	4.25	46.28	0	0	0
IT Botham (ENG)	1992-1992	5	5	324	54.0	2	214	5	2/45	42.80	3.96	64.80	0	0	0

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Performances in matches that overlap decades are credited to the year in which they occurred - this results in some unknown data, especially in regard to bowling figures
Performances in matches that overlap years are credited to the year in which they occurred - this results in some unknown data, especially in regard to bowling figures

Records includes the following current or recent matches:

England vs Sri Lanka at Colombo (RPS), England in Sri Lanka 3rd ODI, Jan 27, 2026 [ODI # 4942]

Sri Lanka vs England at Colombo (RPS), England in Sri Lanka 2nd ODI, Jan 24, 2026 [ODI # 4941]

Sri Lanka vs England at Colombo (RPS), England in Sri Lanka 1st ODI, Jan 22, 2026 [ODI # 4940]