Learn about the Bowlers Taken 4+ wickets or more in one Over in Cricket History: Test, ODI, and T20.
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Taking even a single wicket in an international cricket match is a huge feat. Bowlers practice consistently to hone their skills and find ways of beating the batsmen. Some of them have lived truly special moments during their international careers and delivered remarkable performances.
Today, we are going to discuss the achievement of bowlers with 4 wickets in one over. Very few bowlers have achieved that feat. Their performances have turned the table against the opponent teams and paved the way towards a befitting victory. So, let’s find out which bowlers took four wickets in one over in an international cricket match.
Batsmen bat pretty patiently in a test match. They avoid playing deliveries makes them vulnerable to losing their wicket. Some talented bowlers still found a way to dismiss not just one, but four batsmen in an international test match. Those bowlers are:
Maurice was a part of England’s squad when he debuted for the national team. It was a dream start to his career when he got a 5-wicket haul against New Zealand in 1929-30. The Kiwi team was playing its first test match. Maurice destroyed the entire middle-order of the Kiwi team in the first inning.
The New Zealand team’s score was 21 runs for 3 wickets when Maurice started his killer over. He got Stuart Dempster on the 2nd ball, Lowry on the 4th ball, Ken James on the 5th ball, and Ted Badcock on the last ball of his over. England had won that memorable test match by 8 wickets and Maurice Allom became one of the first bowlers with 4 wickets in one over.
It was again an English bowler, who took four wickets in an over. Ken Cranston was an English all-rounder in the 2nd test match against South Africa (1947) when he repeated the remarkable achievement. It wasn’t that era when people used to wonder how many wickets in an over a bowler could take.
However, Cranston was playing his 2nd test match. It was South Africa’s second inning when Cranston started bowling. He got George Fullerton, Tufty Mann, Lindsay Tuckett, and Ian Smith out in that test match.
Kiwis wouldn’t have thought that another English bowler would make a history of taking four wickets against their team. It was Fred Titmus, who got the entire New Zealand lower order out in his magical over in a 1965 test match.
Titmus got the entire New Zealand team tail out. He took the wickets of John Reid, Bryan Yuile, Bob Blair, and, Bruce Morrison in his killer over. England won that match by an inning and 47 runs!
Chris Old’s remarkable performance helped England secure an easy victory against Pakistan in 1978. The English pacer took 7 wickets for 50 runs in that memorable test match, which took place in Edgbaston.
Chris got Wasim Raja, Wasim Bari, Iqbal Qasim, and Sikandar Bakht out in that test match. Pakistan’s team’s score was 125 for 5 when Chris came to bowl. It tanked to 125 for 9 after that memorable over.
The legendary Pakistani all-rounder “Wasim Akram” shocked the cricket world by taking four wickets against West Indies in the 1991 Lahore Test. Sadly, Pakistan could not secure the match because it was drawn by the West Indian team.
Wasim got Jeff Dujon, Curtly Ambrose, Malcolm Marshall, and Courtney Walsh out in that thrilling over. The retired Pakistani all-rounder has held many records and this four-wicket haul was certainly a special one for young Wasim Akram. You must have started wondering has any bowler taken 6 wickets in an over. Find out the answer later in this post.
Another English bowler on the list. Andrew Caddick took four wickets in an over against West Indies on the Leed’s cricket ground. This thrilling bowling performance helped England wrap up the West Indies team’s score on a mere 61 runs.
The English bowler got Ridley Jacobs, Nixon McLean, Curtly Ambrose, and Reon King out in his memorable over. He also got the last wicket of Courtney Walsh.
There is only one bowler, who took 4 wickets in one over in a T-20 international match. He destroyed the Kiwi team’s four top-order batsmen in the third over of the DFCC Bank Cup.
Malinga got Colin Munro, Hamish Rutherford, Coli de Grandhomme, and Ross Taylor out in that thrilling over. He is the only bowler with the most wickets in one over T20 international match.
Cricketing nations have been playing one-day cricket matches for more than 50 years. Yet, only 5 bowlers have succeeded in taking four or more wickets in one over in a One-Day International cricket match. Those bowlers are:
Vaas is one of the most feared pacers of his era. Sri Lanka was playing a group match against Bangladesh in the 2003 World Cup and Vaas was bowling the first over of the inning in Pietermaritzburg. He got Hannan Sarkar, Al Sahariar, Mohammad Ashraful, Ehsanul Haque, and Sanuar Hosain out in the first over of the match.
Mohammad Sami was a Pakistani Pacer, who played 87 ODI matches for his team and took 121 wickets. He performed exceptionally well in the 2nd ODI match of the 2003 New Zealand vs. Pakistan ODI series. He took 5 wickets for 10 runs and helped his team secure a 124-run victory over the Kiwi team.
Sami got Jacob Oram, Tama Canning, Daniel Vettori, and Paul Hitchcock out in the 37th over of the match. It was a remarkable performance by one of the fastest Pakistani bowlers of that era. However, the record of the most wickets in a single ODI match belongs to another Asian bowler.
Lasith Malinga is currently the only bowler, who took four wickets in an over in two international cricket matches. He was ICC World Cup 2007 when Sri Lanka was playing against South Africa. Malinga took four wickets on four balls in that match. He got Shaun Pollock, Andrew Hall, Jacques Kallis and Makhaya Ntini out in that match. Unfortunately, Sri Lanka could not secure the victory and South Africa won that ODI match by 1 wicket.
Rashid is another English bowler, who got 4 wickets in an international cricket match. England was touring West Indies in 2019 and it was the 4th One-day international match of the ODI series.
Rashid got Ashley Nurse, Carlos Brathwaite, Devendra Bishoo, and Oshane Thomas out in the 48th over of the match. England won that match by 29 runs.
Mohammad Siraj became the first Indian bowler to take 4 wickets in an over in an ODI match. He was bowling against Sri Lanka in the 2023 Asia Cup final. It was 4th over and the bowl was swinging.
Mohammad Siraj got Pathum Nissanka, Sadeera Samarawickrama, Charith Asalanka, and Dhananjay De Silva out in that thrilling over. The entire Sri Lankan team got out for 50 runs in that match. India won the match and the Asia Cup without losing any wickets.
Everyone thinks about Anil Kumble when people wonder how many bowlers have taken 10 wickets in an innings. He is not the only bowler who has achieved that astonishing feat in a cricket match.
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A: The most wickets in one over in ODI are four wickets. Chaminda Vaas, Mohammad Sami, Lasith Malinga, Adil Rashid, and Mohammad Siraj got four wickets in an over in a one-day international match.
A: No bowler took 6 wickets in an over in an international cricket match. However, Aled Carey (an Australian bowler) is the only player who got 6 wickets in 6 balls in the Ballarat Cricket Association competition.
A: No bowler took more than 4 wickets in an international cricket match. You can learn about those bowlers in this post.
A: Chaminda Vaas got 8 wickets in an ODI match against Australia in 2001 at the Sinhalese Sports Club Ground.
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Conclusion
Although Siraj got the most wickets in one over in International Cricket match, he can achieve a more remarkable feat. Pacers and spinners around the globe are trying to improve their performance and secure more wickets in upcoming matches. That day is not too far when a pacer or spinner will take 5 or 6 wickets in an over.
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