We have seen many times that a bowler has picked up 5 wickets in an innings, but when it comes to One Day Internationals, the job gets tougher to grab 5 wickets. A bowlers just got 10 overs to bowl and picking up 5 wickets in so less overs is a difficult task. But here we will take a look at bowlers who have most number of 5 wicket hauls in ODI cricket –
|
Player Name |
Matches |
Wickets |
5-Wicket haul |
|
262 |
416 |
13 |
|
|
350 |
534 |
10 |
|
|
221 |
380 |
9 |
|
|
Shahid Afridi (Asia/ICC/Pak) |
381 |
378 |
9 |
|
Glenn McGrath (Aus) |
250 |
381 |
7 |
|
Lasith Malinga (SL) |
177 |
271 |
7 |
|
171 |
192 |
6 |
|
|
Saqlain Mustaq (Pak) |
169 |
288 |
6 |
|
Wasim Akram (Pak) |
356 |
502 |
6 |
Stat updated till 31 August, 2014
Waqar Younis of Pakistan tops the list with 13, 5 wicket hauls in ODI cricket. Following him is the Sri Lankan, Muttiah Muralitharan with 10 five-wicket hauls. In all there are just 9 bowlers who have got five wicket hauls more than 5 times in ODI cricket and there also thing to make note is there is no Indian bowler even in the Top 20. Harbhajan Singh with 3 five wicket hauls, makes it to 25th position on this list.