An important milestone for a bowler is taking a haul of 5 wickets in an innings, regardless of the format. However, a fiver in T20I cricket is a rarity as a bowler can only bowl four overs in the game, and picking five or more wickets in a spell is a difficult task. That is why a bowler picking 5 wickets or more in a T20I innings is a significant achievement and deserves a lot of admiration.
Not only do they have 24 balls to deliver, but they also have to overcome the ever-attacking batters in this format. So, this article talks about the powerful bowlers who have raised 5-wicket the most times in the shortest format of the game.
Most 5-wicket hauls in T20Is
| Player | Team | Innings | 5-wicket hauls | Total wickets |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rizwan ass | Bahrain | 75 | 4 | 122 |
| Moazzam Baig | Malawi | 43 | 3 | 68 |
| Aamir Kaleem | Oman | 43 | 2 | 48 |
| Ashton Agar | Australia | 49 | 2 | 49 |
| Hernan Fennell | Argentina | 28 | 2 | 50 |
| Imran Tahir | South Africa | 38 | 2 | 63 |
| Manmeet Koli | Romania | 31 | 2 | 42 |
| Kuldeep Yadav | India | 46 | 2 | 86 |
| Bhuvneshwar Kumar | India | 86 | 2 | 90 |
| Sandeep Lamichhane | Nepal | 66 | 2 | 127 |
Key insights on five-wicket hauls in Twenty20 Internationals š
Bowlers with multiple T20I hauls with five wickets
There are more than one 150 bowlers who have taken at least one 5-wicket haul in international T20 cricket.
From this so far 24 of them have used it multiple times.
Bahrain Mohammed Rizwan Butt pick 4 and that of Malawi Moazzam Ali Baig pick 3 are the only players to take more than two T20I fifers.
In the midst of the full-fledged teams, Ashton Agar from Australia, India Kuldeep Yadav, Bhuvneshwar Kumar & Varun ChakrabortySri Lanka Lasith Malinga & Ajantha MendisBangladesh Mustafizur Rahman & Shakib Al-Hasan, Rashid Khan of Afghanistan, Imran Tahir of South Africa, Pakistan Omar Gul And Timothy South of New Zealand have all chosen two Taking 5 wickets in the T20I format.
Record-breaking Five-Fers with minimum and maximum runs against
Yalinde Nkanya (BANNING) holds the record for lowest runs conceded in a five-wicket T20I haul: 5 runs against Cameroon in Kigali on December 9, 2022. Nkanya’s exceptional economy during that period was 0.50.
Alzarri Joseph (WI) conceded the most runs in a five-wicket haul: 40 runs against South Africa in Johannesburg on March 28, 2023.
Joshua Rasu (BY) recorded the worst economic rate in a five-wicket haul: 12.70 (to give in 36 runs just 2.5 overtime hours) against Papua New Guinea (PNG) on July 12, 2019.
Consistency against a single opponent
The following players have chosen two 5-wicket hauls against the the same opponent:
| Player | They will resist | Best marks |
| Manmeet Koli (ROM) | Hungary | 28/5 (Spinaceto, 2024) and 12/5 (Szodliget, 2025) |
| Rashid Khan (AFG) | Ireland | 5/3 (Greater Noida, 2017) and 5/27 (Dehradun, 2019) |
Consistency on a single basis
The following players have chosen multiple 5-wicket hauls at the the same ground:
| Player | Land (location) | Best marks |
| Aamir Kaleem (OMA) | Al Amerat (Oman) | 5/15 |
| Lasith Malinga (SL) | Plan is (Sri Lanka) | 5/6 |
| Dinesh Nakrani (UGA) | IPRC (Kigali, Rwanda) | 6/7 |
Milestones, debut and age-related five-wicket haul records
Omar Gul (PACK) was the first bowler to take a five-wicket haul in a T20I: 5/6 against New Zealand at The Oval on June 13, 2009.
Five players have picked a 5-fer in their T20I debut: Reo Sakurano-Thomas (JPN), Elias Sunny (FORBIDDEN), Hassan Mehmood (SWE), Khizar life (BUT), and Ankush Nanda (LUX).
Mohammed Rizwan Butt (BHR) holds the record for most five-wicket hauls resulting in a win: 4 five-wicket hauls between 2022 And 2025.
Varun Chakraborty (IND) is the only player to pick a five-wicket T20I haul in a losing match twice.
The oldest player to take a five-wicket T20I haul is Tomakanut Ritawa (A LOT OF) bee 46 years And 299 daysachieved against Fiji on September 14, 2022.
The youngest player to take a five-wicket T20I haul is Charlie Hinze (JPN) bee 15 years And 224 daysachieved against Mongolia on May 11, 2024.
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