2025 Records

2025 Stats: Most Wickets in T20I Cricket

Player Team Innings Wickets Economy Best Bowling
Umair Tariq Austria 11 24 6.27 5/32
Rizwan Butt Bahrain 14 21 5.78 3/29
Ali Dawood Bahrain 12 19 5.67 3/13
Rahulkumar Hashu Portugal 8 17 6.95 4/17
Kaleem Sana Canada 9 17 6.69 4/17
Abdul Majid Bahrain 14 17 4.96 2/13
Upen Shantu Portugal 8 16 5.54 3/23
Yasir Mohammad USA 6 16 6.25 4/11
Imran Anwar Bahrain 9 15 5.85 3/19
Varun Chakaravarthy India 5 14 7.66 5/24

Key Stats

Alpesh Ramjani (UGA) picking 55 wickets is the only instance of a bowler picking 50+ wickets in a calendar year in T20I cricket history.

In 2025, 52 bowlers have taken 5 or more wickets in the shortest format of the game till now. Rizwan Butt of Bahrain has the most wickets (21) and he has done so at an average of 14.33 in 14 innings.

Similarly, Jon Jon Smit’s average of 3.85 for Namibia (7 wickets) is the lowest in 2025.

Varun Chakaravarthy of India, New Zealand’s James Neesham (5/22), and Hungary’s Muhammad Saqlain (5/32) are the ones to have taken a five-wicket haul in an innings.

10 other bowlers have picked a four-wicket haul in an innings at least once. Jacob Duffy and Deepak Rawat have captured four or more wickets in an innings twice each.