Best Bowling Fig – Complete Cricket Stats & Records

This page lists the players with the best bowling fig in cricket history. These records highlight the most consistent and impactful performances across different eras.

Position	Stats Value	Player Name	Team Name
1	10/2	Anil Kumble	India
1	8/43	Alf Valentine	West Indies
1	7/4	Roy Tattersall	England
1	8/9	Fred Trueman	England
1	7/2	Subhash Gupte	India
1	7/1	Johnny Wardle	England
1	7/9	Brian Statham	England
1	7/2	Denis Atkinson	West Indies
1	9/21	Hugh Tayfield	South Africa
1	9/86	Subhash Gupte	India
1	9/55	Jasubhai Patel	India
1	7/9	Sir Wes Hall	West Indies
1	8/40	Goofy Lawrence	South Africa
1	8/16	Lance Gibbs	West Indies
1	7/0	Fred Trueman	England
1	7/3	Joe Partridge	South Africa
1	8/10	Srinivas Venkataraghavan	India
1	7/22	Neil Hawke	Australia
1	7/36	Graham McKenzie	Australia
1	8/14	Graham McKenzie	Australia
1	7/1	Pervez Sajjad	Pakistan
1	6/17	John Snow	England
1	9/30	Jack Noreiga	West Indies
1	8/9	Ashley Mallett	Australia
1	7/9	Intikhab Alam	Pakistan
1	8/0	Derek Underwood	England
1	8/18	Max Walker	Australia
1	8/2	Michael Holding	West Indies
1	8/29	Colin Croft	West Indies
1	8/13	Sir Ian Botham	England
1	9/22	Sarfraz Nawaz	Pakistan
1	7/12	Iqbal Qasim	Pakistan
1	8/28	Bob Willis	England
1	8/16	Imran Khan	Pakistan
1	9/0	Kapil Dev	India
1	8/3	Geoff Lawson	Australia
1	9/15	Sir Richard Hadlee	New Zealand
1	7/9	Maninder Singh	India
1	9/8	Abdul Qadir	Pakistan
1	8/43	Narendra Hirwani	India
1	7/1	Allan Border	Australia
1	8/4	Sir Curtly Ambrose	West Indies
1	8/10	Craig McDermott	Australia
1	7/11	Shane Warne	Australia
1	7/10	Sir Curtly Ambrose	West Indies
1	9/19	Devon Malcolm	England
1	8/42	Allan Donald	South Africa
1	8/8	Lance Klusener	South Africa
1	8/14	Glenn McGrath	Australia
1	9/23	Muttiah Muralitharan	Sri Lanka
1	10/42	Anil Kumble	India
1	8/14	Saqlain Mushtaq	Pakistan
1	8/1	Harbhajan Singh	India
1	9/17	Muttiah Muralitharan	Sri Lanka
1	7/2	Jermaine Lawson	West Indies
1	8/2	Anil Kumble	India
1	8/18	Muttiah Muralitharan	Sri Lanka
1	8/29	Muttiah Muralitharan	Sri Lanka
1	7/6	Darren Sammy	West Indies
1	8/22	Mitchell Johnson	Australia
1	7/6	Danish Kaneria	Pakistan
1	7/7	Zaheer Khan	India
1	7/8	Rangana Herath	Sri Lanka
1	7/8	Stuart Broad	England
1	7/8	Nathan Lyon	Australia
1	9/26	Rangana Herath	Sri Lanka
1	8/8	Stuart Broad	England
1	8/18	Rangana Herath	Sri Lanka
1	8/19	Nathan Lyon	Australia
1	9/10	Keshav Maharaj	South Africa
1	8/10	Roston Chase	West Indies
1	7/62	Sikandar Raza	Zimbabwe
1	10/25	Ajaz Patel	New Zealand
1	7/6	Keshav Maharaj	South Africa
1	8/14	Nathan Lyon	Australia
1	8/42	Noman Ali	Pakistan
1	7/9	Mitchell Starc	Australia
1	4/55	Michael Neser	Australia
2	3/20	Beau Webster	Australia
2	7/14	Keshav Maharaj	South Africa
2	7/1	Washington Sundar	India
2	7/10	Ravindra Jadeja	India
2	7/8	Shardul Thakur	India
2	8/7	Sajid Khan	Pakistan
2	6/14	Stuart Broad	England
2	7/19	Ravichandran Ashwin	India
2	7/12	James Anderson	England
2	8/14	Shannon Gabriel	West Indies
2	8/46	Devendra Bishoo	West Indies
2	7/7	Rangana Herath	Sri Lanka
2	8/4	Taijul Islam	Bangladesh
2	7/13	Ryan Harris	Australia
2	7/8	Tim Southee	New Zealand
2	6/1	Fidel Edwards	West Indies
2	7/29	Dale Steyn	South Africa
2	7/22	Harbhajan Singh	India
2	8/102	Jason Krejza	Australia
2	6/1	Monty Panesar	England
2	7/12	Makhaya Ntini	South Africa
2	8/30	Stuart MacGill	Australia
2	8/18	Glenn McGrath	Australia
2	7/3	Paul Adams	South Africa
2	8/26	Paul Strang	Zimbabwe
2	8/13	Muttiah Muralitharan	Sri Lanka
2	7/2	Harbhajan Singh	India
2	8/12	Javagal Srinath	India
2	7/9	Michael Kasprowicz	Australia
2	8/10	Angus Fraser	England
2	7/64	Mohammad Zahid	Pakistan
2	7/8	Courtney Walsh	West Indies
2	7/22	Waqar Younis	Pakistan
2	8/2	Angus Fraser	England
2	7/12	Phil Tufnell	England
2	7/1	Phil DeFreitas	England
2	7/10	Chris Pringle	New Zealand
2	7/60	Mike Whitney	Australia
2	8/52	Merv Hughes	Australia
2	8/4	Neil Foster	England
2	7/47	Sir Richard Hadlee	New Zealand
2	8/3	Kapil Dev	India
2	8/45	Sir Ian Botham	England
2	7/8	Lance Cairns	New Zealand
2	7/18	Dennis Lillee	Australia
2	7/9	Bruce Yardley	Australia
2	7/18	Sir Ian Botham	England
2	8/14	Sikander Bakht	Pakistan
2	7/15	Bob Willis	England
2	7/0	Phil Edmonds	England
2	8/21	Erapalli Prasanna	India
2	7/3	Lance Gibbs	West Indies
2	8/4	Tony Greig	England
2	6/1	Max Walker	Australia
2	8/26	Bob Massie	Australia
2	7/7	John Snow	England
2	6/24	Mike Procter	South Africa
2	7/3	Mohammad Nazir	Pakistan
2	7/8	Derek Underwood	England
2	6/0	Ray Illingworth	England
2	7/78	Bhagwath Chandrasekhar	India
2	6/7	Lance Gibbs	West Indies
2	7/16	Graham McKenzie	Australia
2	7/2	Fred Titmus	England
2	6/11	Sir Wes Hall	West Indies
2	6/15	Richie Benaud	Australia
2	6/3	Brian Statham	England
2	7/14	Lindsay Kline	Australia
2	7/0	Tony Lock	England
2	7/12	Trevor Bailey	England
2	7/10	Richie Benaud	Australia
2	7/18	Subhash Gupte	India
2	7/1	Trevor Bailey	England
2	7/14	Sir Alec Bedser	England
2	8/35	Vinoo Mankad	India
2	7/5	Sir Alec Bedser	England
2	10/7	Ajaz Patel	New Zealand
2	5/63	Doug Wright	England
3	5/113	Michael Melle	South Africa
3	9/0	Sarfraz Nawaz	Pakistan
3	7/22	Fazal Mahmood	Pakistan
3	6/5	Hugh Tayfield	South Africa
3	6/2	Frank Worrell	West Indies
3	7/22	Frank Tyson	England
3	7/26	Ian Johnson	Australia
3	7/34	Fazal Mahmood	Pakistan
3	7/11	Brian Statham	England
3	7/29	Johnny Wardle	England
3	7/16	Alan Davidson	Australia
3	6/4	Bapu Nadkarni	India
3	6/19	Tony Lock	England
3	6/18	Peter Pollock	South Africa
3	6/11	Charlie Griffith	West Indies
3	6/0	Fred Titmus	England
3	6/12	Tom Cartwright	England
3	6/5	Ken Higgs	England
3	6/51	Erapalli Prasanna	India
3	7/14	John Snow	England
3	7/5	Derek Underwood	England
3	6/47	Alan Connolly	Australia
3	6/0	Derek Underwood	England
3	8/42	Bhagwath Chandrasekhar	India
3	6/21	Keith Boyce	West Indies
3	6/1	Lance Gibbs	West Indies
3	7/5	Derek Underwood	England
3	7/23	Sir Richard Hadlee	New Zealand
3	6/6	Bishan Bedi	India
3	7/9	Chris Old	England
3	7/5	Geoff Dymock	Australia
3	7/21	Kapil Dev	India
3	7/23	Bruce Yardley	Australia
3	7/16	Abdul Qadir	Pakistan
3	6/10	Dennis Lillee	Australia
3	7/6	Lance Cairns	New Zealand
3	8/17	Craig McDermott	Australia
3	7/3	John Emburey	England
3	6/5	Wasim Akram	Pakistan
3	6/0	Abdul Qadir	Pakistan
3	7/12	Malcolm Marshall	West Indies
3	7/20	Waqar Younis	Pakistan
3	6/10	Chris Lewis	England
3	7/13	Mike Whitney	Australia
3	8/16	Shane Warne	Australia
3	7/37	Danny Morrison	New Zealand
3	7/11	Shane Warne	Australia
3	6/16	Wasim Akram	Pakistan
3	7/9	Shaun Pollock	South Africa
3	7/19	Jason Gillespie	Australia
3	7/10	Chris Cairns	New Zealand
3	7/19	Daniel Vettori	New Zealand
3	7/11	Chaminda Vaas	Sri Lanka
3	7/7	Matthew Hoggard	England
3	7/4	Michael Kasprowicz	Australia
3	7/8	Corey Collymore	West Indies
3	7/16	Danish Kaneria	Pakistan
3	7/7	Daniel Vettori	New Zealand
3	7/6	Shakib Al Hasan	Bangladesh
3	6/9	Stuart Broad	England
3	6/6	Muttiah Muralitharan	Sri Lanka
3	6/0	Marcus North	Australia
3	7/10	Aubrey Faulkner	South Africa
3	7/45	Marchant de Lange	South Africa
3	7/15	Rangana Herath	Sri Lanka
3	7/5	Mark Craig	New Zealand
3	7/8	Ravichandran Ashwin	India
3	7/20	Kagiso Rabada	South Africa
3	8/20	Yasir Shah	Pakistan
3	7/16	Neil Wagner	New Zealand
3	7/46	Rahkeem Cornwall	West Indies
3	6/24	Jason Holder	West Indies
3	7/29	Lasith Embuldeniya	Sri Lanka
3	7/23	Matt Henry	New Zealand
3	7/10	Noman Ali	Pakistan
3	7/7	Mitchell Santner	New Zealand
3	7/18	Jomel Warrican	West Indies
3	3/42	Joshua Tongue	England
4	7/38	Blessing Muzarabani	Zimbabwe
4	3/51	Brydon Carse	England
4	7/13	Todd Murphy	Australia
4	7/7	Shamar Joseph	West Indies
4	7/23	Abrar Ahmed	Pakistan
4	7/36	Taijul Islam	Bangladesh
4	5/5	Nathan Lyon	Australia
4	6/2	Jasprit Bumrah	India
4	7/27	Mehidy Hasan	Bangladesh
4	7/47	Yasir Shah	Pakistan
4	7/20	Ravindra Jadeja	India
4	7/44	Yasir Shah	Pakistan
4	7/10	Nathan Lyon	Australia
4	6/7	Elias Sunny	Bangladesh
4	7/15	Sid Pegler	South Africa
4	7/16	Mitchell Johnson	Australia
4	6/1	Graeme Swann	England
4	6/18	Kemar Roach	West Indies
4	7/12	Fidel Edwards	West Indies
4	7/13	Matthew Hoggard	England
4	6/29	Makhaya Ntini	South Africa
4	7/12	Steve Harmison	England
4	7/19	Anil Kumble	India
4	7/8	Saqlain Mushtaq	Pakistan
4	7/23	Muttiah Muralitharan	Sri Lanka
4	7/13	Glenn McGrath	Australia
4	7/39	Muttiah Muralitharan	Sri Lanka
4	7/18	Andy Caddick	England
4	7/14	Franklyn Rose	West Indies
4	7/22	Phil Tufnell	England
4	6/18	Venkatesh Prasad	India
4	7/25	Dominic Cork	England
4	7/30	Anil Kumble	India
4	7/43	Allan Donald	South Africa
4	6/8	Shane Warne	Australia
4	6/11	Sir Curtly Ambrose	West Indies
4	7/40	Bruce Reid	Australia
4	7/34	Imran Khan	Pakistan
4	6/6	Terry Alderman	Australia
4	8/24	Ravi Ratnayeke	Sri Lanka
4	7/8	Imran Khan	Pakistan
4	7/6	Malcolm Marshall	West Indies
4	6/11	John Bracewell	New Zealand
4	6/19	Malcolm Marshall	West Indies
4	7/25	Geoff Lawson	Australia
4	7/61	Joey Palmer	Australia
4	7/24	Ray Bright	Australia
4	7/9	Jim Higgs	Australia
4	6/12	Jeff Thomson	Australia
4	6/16	Derek Underwood	England
4	7/24	John Lever	England
4	7/47	Sir Andy Roberts	West Indies
4	6/45	Jeff Thomson	Australia
4	7/9	Bruce Taylor	New Zealand
4	6/26	Bhagwath Chandrasekhar	India
4	6/5	Bhagwath Chandrasekhar	India
4	5/2	Peter Pollock	South Africa
4	7/6	Bishan Bedi	India
4	6/55	Syed Abid Ali	India
4	6/1	Bapu Nadkarni	India
4	6/13	Jeff Jones	England
4	6/16	Neil Hawke	Australia
4	6/3	Bapu Nadkarni	India
4	6/26	Peter Pollock	South Africa
4	6/25	Len Coldwell	England
4	6/16	Neil Adcock	South Africa
4	6/30	Fred Trueman	England
4	6/1	Ken Mackay	Australia
4	7/49	Sonny Ramadhin	West Indies
4	6/3	Fazal Mahmood	Pakistan
4	7/49	Ghulam Ahmed	India
4	6/6	Sonny Ramadhin	West Indies
4	6/0	Polly Umrigar	India
4	6/14	Bill Johnston	Australia
4	7/25	Gerry Gomez	West Indies
4	6/9	Geoff Chubb	South Africa
4	9/0	Abdul Qadir	Pakistan
4	5/116	Roly Jenkins	England
5	4/28	Trevor Bailey	England
5	9/0	Rangana Herath	Sri Lanka
5	7/59	Hugh Tayfield	South Africa
5	6/11	Sadu Shinde	India
5	6/13	Hugh Tayfield	South Africa
5	5/4	Frank King	West Indies
5	6/1	Mahmood Hussain	Pakistan
5	6/23	Sonny Ramadhin	West Indies
5	6/1	Peter Loader	England
5	6/12	Peter Heine	South Africa
5	6/25	Alan Davidson	Australia
5	6/8	Tony Lock	England
5	6/42	Haseeb Ahsan	Pakistan
5	6/31	Fred Trueman	England
5	6/28	Lance Gibbs	West Indies
5	6/6	David Pithey	South Africa
5	6/18	Ramakant Desai	India
5	6/17	Graham McKenzie	Australia
5	5/5	Geoff Arnold	England
5	6/4	Ray Illingworth	England
5	6/2	Srinivas Venkataraghavan	India
5	5/9	Ken Shuttleworth	England
5	6/7	Dennis Lillee	Australia
5	6/17	Bob Cunis	New Zealand
5	5/0	Doug Walters	Australia
5	6/52	Bishan Bedi	India
5	6/19	Vanburn Holder	West Indies
5	6/12	Sir Andy Roberts	West Indies
5	6/24	Dennis Lillee	Australia
5	6/15	Vanburn Holder	West Indies
5	6/1	Kapil Dev	India
5	6/1	Gary Troup	New Zealand
5	6/1	Iqbal Qasim	Pakistan
5	6/10	Sir Ian Botham	England
5	7/12	Stephen Boock	New Zealand
5	6/27	Sir Richard Hadlee	New Zealand
5	6/11	Chetan Sharma	India
5	7/13	Maninder Singh	India
5	7/40	Malcolm Marshall	West Indies
5	6/16	John Bracewell	New Zealand
5	6/9	Courtney Walsh	West Indies
5	6/0	Eddie Hemmings	England
5	6/23	Phil Tufnell	England
5	6/15	Anil Kumble	India
5	6/9	Ian Bishop	West Indies
5	7/30	Wasim Akram	Pakistan
5	7/56	Mushtaq Ahmed	Pakistan
5	6/21	Javagal Srinath	India
5	6/2	Shane Warne	Australia
5	7/15	Simon Doull	New Zealand
5	6/1	Wasim Akram	Pakistan
5	6/6	Courtney Walsh	West Indies
5	7/16	Shane Warne	Australia
5	7/94	Andy Caddick	England
5	7/9	Danish Kaneria	Pakistan
5	7/20	Corey Collymore	West Indies
5	6/2	Anil Kumble	India
5	7/14	Danish Kaneria	Pakistan
5	6/30	Dale Steyn	South Africa
5	6/21	Umar Gul	Pakistan
5	7/21	James Anderson	England
5	6/1	Ajantha Mendis	Sri Lanka
5	7/19	Stuart Broad	England
5	7/22	Saeed Ajmal	Pakistan
5	6/8	Doug Bracewell	New Zealand
5	7/28	Ishant Sharma	India
5	6/3	Josh Hazlewood	Australia
5	7/22	Ravichandran Ashwin	India
5	6/1	Ravindra Jadeja	India
5	6/2	Bilal Asif	Pakistan
5	6/2	Nathan Lyon	Australia
5	5/8	Ishant Sharma	India
5	7/137	Rashid Khan	Afghanistan
5	7/33	Ravichandran Ashwin	India
5	6/5	Ebadot Hossain	Bangladesh
5	7/10	Matt Henry	New Zealand
5	7/66	Rashid Khan	Nepal
5	3/72	Mitchell Starc	Australia
6	2/46	Scott Boland	Australia
6	6/2	Scott Boland	Australia
6	7/13	Marco Jansen	South Africa
6	6/7	Noman Ali	Pakistan
6	7/37	Gudakesh Motie	West Indies
6	6/3	Shaheen Afridi	Pakistan
6	6/7	Trent Boult	New Zealand
6	6/11	Chris Woakes	England
6	5/8	Josh Hazlewood	Australia
6	6/3	Josh Hazlewood	Australia
6	6/6	Chris Woakes	England
6	6/4	Taijul Islam	Bangladesh
6	7/23	Saeed Ajmal	Pakistan
6	7/33	Mitchell Johnson	Australia
6	7/25	Gerry Hazlitt	Australia
6	6/12	Graeme Swann	England
6	6/6	Shane Watson	Australia
6	7/26	Ryan Sidebottom	England
6	6/34	Paul Harris	South Africa
6	5/11	Paul Harris	South Africa
6	6/10	Steve Harmison	England
6	7/22	Matthew Hoggard	England
6	6/6	Shaun Pollock	South Africa
6	7/19	Harbhajan Singh	India
6	7/22	Anil Kumble	India
6	7/11	Shane Warne	Australia
6	6/10	Glenn McGrath	Australia
6	6/7	Daniel Vettori	New Zealand
6	6/3	Dominic Cork	England
6	6/4	Franklyn Rose	West Indies
6	6/0	Chaminda Vaas	Sri Lanka
6	6/30	Paul Adams	South Africa
6	7/68	Ravindra Pushpakumara	Sri Lanka
6	6/13	Paul Reiffel	Australia
6	6/34	Sir Curtly Ambrose	West Indies
6	6/50	Bruce Reid	Australia
6	6/2	John Bracewell	New Zealand
6	6/15	Ian Bishop	West Indies
6	6/16	Graham Dilley	England
6	6/9	Sir Richard Hadlee	New Zealand
6	6/16	Abdul Qadir	Pakistan
6	6/0	Roger Harper	West Indies
6	6/10	Ewen Chatfield	New Zealand
6	6/28	Carl Rackemann	Australia
6	6/16	Michael Holding	West Indies
6	6/3	Mudassar Nazar	Pakistan
6	6/1	Joel Garner	West Indies
6	6/7	Iqbal Qasim	Pakistan
6	6/17	Sir Richard Hadlee	New Zealand
6	6/25	Bhagwath Chandrasekhar	India
6	6/14	Richard Collinge	New Zealand
6	6/26	Gary Gilmour	Australia
6	5/0	Intikhab Alam	Pakistan
6	5/4	Greg Chappell	Australia
6	6/16	Derek Underwood	England
6	5/1	Peter Lever	England
6	5/61	John Gleeson	Australia
6	6/11	Lance Gibbs	West Indies
6	6/17	Erapalli Prasanna	India
6	6/36	Lance Gibbs	West Indies
6	5/6	Ken Higgs	England
6	6/19	Charlie Griffith	West Indies
6	5/3	Graham McKenzie	Australia
6	6/15	Salim Durani	India
6	6/43	Alan Davidson	Australia
6	6/16	Fazal Mahmood	Pakistan
6	5/5	Fazal Mahmood	Pakistan
6	5/1	Ken Mackay	Australia
6	6/16	Roy Gilchrist	West Indies
6	6/17	Peter Heine	South Africa
6	5/1	Ron Archer	Australia
6	6/16	Geoff Rabone	New Zealand
6	6/3	Gulabrai Ramchand	India
6	5/7	Dattu Phadkar	India
6	6/17	Doug Ring	Australia
6	6/39	Michael Melle	South Africa
6	9/0	Kapil Dev	India
6	4/37	Sir Alec Bedser	England
7	9/0	Subhash Gupte	India
7	4/75	Bill Johnston	Australia
7	6/19	Alex Moir	New Zealand
7	6/44	Doug Ring	Australia
7	5/12	Eddie Fuller	South Africa
7	6/46	Fazal Mahmood	Pakistan
7	6/10	Khan Mohammad	Pakistan
7	5/8	Trevor Bailey	England
7	6/34	Alan Davidson	Australia
7	6/18	Neil Adcock	South Africa
7	5/12	David Allen	England
7	5/9	Mahmood Hussain	Pakistan
7	6/48	Salim Durani	India
7	5/0	Richie Benaud	Australia
7	5/4	Richie Benaud	Australia
7	6/16	Neil Hawke	Australia
7	5/1	Sir Wes Hall	West Indies
7	6/39	Trevor Goddard	South Africa
7	5/12	Derek Underwood	England
7	6/12	Bishan Bedi	India
7	6/19	Graham McKenzie	Australia
7	5/79	Ashley Mallett	Australia
7	5/1	Ray Illingworth	England
7	6/17	Geoff Arnold	England
7	5/9	Lance Gibbs	West Indies
7	5/6	Chris Old	England
7	6/37	Peter Lever	England
7	6/28	Bhagwath Chandrasekhar	India
7	6/11	Dilip Doshi	India
7	6/46	Imran Niazi	Pakistan
7	6/26	Abdul Qadir	Pakistan
7	6/11	Michael Holding	West Indies