India ODI most five wicket hauls: All-Time Records

Mohammed Shami has taken five wickets in an ODI innings for India six times. Javagal Srinath and Harbhajan Singh have three each, fourteen bowlers have two, and seventeen have one. That is the whole distribution: 57 five-wicket hauls, shared by 34 bowlers, across more than half a century of India playing the format.

Shami's six is not just the India record but a total that puts him level with Wasim Akram and Trent Boult on the all-time men's ODI list. Four of the six came inside the twelve months of 2023, and one of them — 7 for 57 against New Zealand at the Wankhede in the World Cup semi-final — is the best analysis any India bowler has produced in a one-day international.

The scarcity is the more instructive figure. India have played over a thousand one-day internationals and their bowlers have taken 57 five-fors, which is roughly one every eighteen matches. It took nine years and a World Cup for the first to arrive.

Bowlers with a five-wicket haul for India in ODIs

Rank	Bowler	Span	Mat	Inns	Wkts	5w	4w
1	Mohammed Shami	2013-2025	108	107	206	6	10
=2	Javagal Srinath	1991-2003	229	227	315	3	7
=2	Harbhajan Singh	1998-2015	234	225	265	3	2
=4	Anil Kumble	1990-2007	269	263	334	2	8
=4	Ajit Agarkar	1998-2007	191	188	288	2	10
=4	Ravindra Jadeja	2009-2026	210	202	232	2	7
=4	Kuldeep Yadav	2017-2026	121	118	194	2	9
=4	Irfan Pathan	2004-2012	120	118	173	2	5
=4	Manoj Prabhakar	1984-1996	130	127	157	2	4
=4	Ashish Nehra	2001-2011	117	117	155	2	5
=4	Sachin Tendulkar	1989-2012	463	270	154	2	4
=4	Jasprit Bumrah	2016-2026	91	90	151	2	6
=4	Yuzvendra Chahal	2016-2023	72	69	121	2	5
=4	Sourav Ganguly	1992-2007	308	170	100	2	1
=4	Robin Singh	1989-2001	136	117	69	2	0
=4	Amit Mishra	2003-2016	36	34	64	2	2
=4	Kris Srikkanth	1981-1992	146	33	25	2	0
=18	Zaheer Khan	2000-2012	194	191	269	1	7
=18	Kapil Dev	1978-1994	225	221	253	1	3
=18	Venkatesh Prasad	1994-2001	161	160	196	1	3
=18	Bhuvneshwar Kumar	2012-2022	121	120	141	1	4
=18	Ravi Shastri	1981-1992	150	136	129	1	2
=18	Yuvraj Singh	2000-2017	301	158	110	1	2
=18	Mohammed Siraj	2019-2026	50	49	76	1	2
=18	S Sreesanth	2005-2011	53	52	75	1	2
=18	Sunil Joshi	1996-2001	69	67	69	1	1
=18	Prasidh Krishna	2021-2026	28	28	50	1	3
=18	Nikhil Chopra	1998-2000	39	37	46	1	1
=18	Murali Kartik	2002-2007	37	36	37	1	0
=18	Arshad Ayub	1987-1990	32	32	31	1	0
=18	Arshdeep Singh	2022-2026	18	17	30	1	1
=18	Sanjeev Sharma	1988-1990	23	22	22	1	0
=18	Stuart Binny	2014-2015	14	12	20	1	0
=18	Varun Chakaravarthy	2025	4	4	10	1	0

Every India ODI five-for, in the order they happened

No.	Date	Bowler	Figures	Overs	Opponent	Venue
1	13 Jun 1983	Kapil Dev	5/43	12.0	Australia	Nottingham
2	16 Oct 1988	Sanjeev Sharma	5/26	7.3	West Indies	Sharjah
3	31 Oct 1988	Arshad Ayub	5/21	9.0	Pakistan	Dhaka
4	10 Dec 1988	Kris Srikkanth	5/27	7.0	New Zealand	Visakhapatnam
5	15 Dec 1988	Kris Srikkanth	5/32	6.0	New Zealand	Indore
6	8 Dec 1991	Ravi Shastri	5/15	6.5	Australia	Perth (WACA)
7	26 Feb 1993	Javagal Srinath	5/41	9.0	England	Bengaluru
8	7 Nov 1993	Javagal Srinath	5/24	6.4	Sri Lanka	Kanpur
9	27 Nov 1993	Anil Kumble	6/12	6.1	West Indies	Kolkata (Eden Gardens)
10	18 Feb 1994	Manoj Prabhakar	5/35	10.0	Sri Lanka	Hyderabad
11	30 Mar 1994	Anil Kumble	5/33	10.0	New Zealand	Wellington
12	18 Nov 1995	Manoj Prabhakar	5/33	10.0	New Zealand	Amritsar
13	18 Sep 1997	Sourav Ganguly	5/16	10.0	Pakistan	Toronto
14	22 Dec 1997	Robin Singh	5/22	5.0	Sri Lanka	Guwahati
15	10 Jan 1998	Javagal Srinath	5/23	10.0	Bangladesh	Dhaka
16	1 Apr 1998	Sachin Tendulkar	5/32	10.0	Australia	Kochi
17	26 May 1999	Robin Singh	5/31	9.3	Sri Lanka	Taunton
18	8 Jun 1999	Venkatesh Prasad	5/27	9.3	Pakistan	Manchester
19	14 Sep 1999	Nikhil Chopra	5/21	6.2	West Indies	Toronto
20	26 Sep 1999	Sunil Joshi	5/6	10.0	South Africa	Nairobi (Gymkhana)
21	11 Dec 2000	Sourav Ganguly	5/34	10.0	Zimbabwe	Kanpur
22	3 Feb 2002	Harbhajan Singh	5/43	10.0	England	Mumbai (Wankhede)
23	26 Feb 2003	Ashish Nehra	6/23	10.0	England	Durban
24	9 Jan 2004	Ajit Agarkar	6/42	9.3	Australia	Melbourne
25	2 Apr 2005	Sachin Tendulkar	5/50	10.0	Pakistan	Kochi
26	9 Aug 2005	Ashish Nehra	6/59	10.0	Sri Lanka	Colombo (RPS)
27	29 Aug 2005	Irfan Pathan	5/27	10.0	Zimbabwe	Harare
28	3 Nov 2005	Ajit Agarkar	5/44	9.5	Sri Lanka	Pune
29	28 Mar 2006	Harbhajan Singh	5/31	10.0	England	Delhi
30	15 Apr 2006	S Sreesanth	6/55	10.0	England	Indore
31	14 Feb 2007	Zaheer Khan	5/42	10.0	Sri Lanka	Margao
32	17 Oct 2007	Murali Kartik	6/27	10.0	Australia	Mumbai (Wankhede)
33	14 Sep 2009	Harbhajan Singh	5/56	9.4	Sri Lanka	Colombo (RPS)
34	6 Mar 2011	Yuvraj Singh	5/31	10.0	Ireland	Bengaluru
35	4 Aug 2012	Irfan Pathan	5/61	10.0	Sri Lanka	Pallekele
36	11 Jun 2013	Ravindra Jadeja	5/36	10.0	West Indies	The Oval
37	3 Aug 2013	Amit Mishra	6/48	8.5	Zimbabwe	Bulawayo
38	17 Jun 2014	Stuart Binny	6/4	4.4	Bangladesh	Mirpur
39	29 Oct 2016	Amit Mishra	5/18	6.0	New Zealand	Visakhapatnam
40	27 Aug 2017	Jasprit Bumrah	5/27	10.0	Sri Lanka	Pallekele
41	3 Sep 2017	Bhuvneshwar Kumar	5/42	9.4	Sri Lanka	Colombo (RPS)
42	4 Feb 2018	Yuzvendra Chahal	5/22	8.2	South Africa	Centurion
43	12 Jul 2018	Kuldeep Yadav	6/25	10.0	England	Nottingham
44	18 Jan 2019	Yuzvendra Chahal	6/42	10.0	Australia	Melbourne
45	30 Jun 2019	Mohammed Shami	5/69	10.0	England	Birmingham
46	12 Jul 2022	Jasprit Bumrah	6/19	7.2	England	The Oval
47	10 Sep 2023	Kuldeep Yadav	5/25	8.0	Pakistan	Colombo (RPS)
48	17 Sep 2023	Mohammed Siraj	6/21	7.0	Sri Lanka	Colombo (RPS)
49	22 Sep 2023	Mohammed Shami	5/51	10.0	Australia	Mohali
50	22 Oct 2023	Mohammed Shami	5/54	10.0	New Zealand	Dharamsala
51	2 Nov 2023	Mohammed Shami	5/18	5.0	Sri Lanka	Mumbai (Wankhede)
52	5 Nov 2023	Ravindra Jadeja	5/33	9.0	South Africa	Kolkata (Eden Gardens)
53	15 Nov 2023	Mohammed Shami	7/57	9.5	New Zealand	Mumbai (Wankhede)
54	17 Dec 2023	Arshdeep Singh	5/37	10.0	South Africa	Johannesburg
55	20 Feb 2025	Mohammed Shami	5/53	10.0	Bangladesh	Dubai
56	2 Mar 2025	Varun Chakaravarthy	5/42	10.0	New Zealand	Dubai
57	20 Jun 2026	Prasidh Krishna	5/23	8.2	Afghanistan	Chennai

Nine years, then a World Cup

India's first one-day international was in 1974 and their first ODI five-wicket haul came on 13 June 1983, when Kapil Dev took 5 for 43 in twelve overs against Australia at Trent Bridge in the group stage of the tournament India went on to win. Nobody managed it in the nine years before that, and nobody managed it in the five years after: the second on the list is Sanjeev Sharma's 5 for 26 against the West Indies at Sharjah in October 1988.

Two things explain the drought. India played 51 one-day internationals in the whole of the 1970s and early 1980s and lost most of them, so the innings where a bowler is bowling at a collapsing side were rare. And the sixty-over format, in use until 1983, gave a bowler twelve overs but also gave batting sides time to bat sensibly. The 1983 World Cup page covers the tournament Kapil's spell belongs to.

Then 1988 produced three in ten weeks, including Kris Srikkanth taking five twice in six days against New Zealand as a part-time medium-pacer who bowled 33 innings in a 146-match career. Those two spells make him the most improbable name in the entire list.

2023: eight in one year

Eight of the 57 came in the calendar year 2023, which is more than the whole of the 1980s and 1990s produced between them. Six landed between 10 September and 17 December, in the Asia Cup and then the home World Cup: Kuldeep Yadav against Pakistan in Colombo, Mohammed Siraj's 6 for 21 against Sri Lanka a week later, then Shami three times, Ravindra Jadeja once and Arshdeep Singh in Johannesburg to close the year.

That cluster is the clearest single piece of evidence for how much India's ODI bowling changed after 2015. A four-man attack of two seamers who swing it and two wrist or finger spinners who attack the stumps produces collapses; the older model of medium pace and containment produced 240 for 7. The 2023 World Cup page has the context, and Mohammed Siraj's spell in the Asia Cup final — six wickets in his first five overs — is the shortest of all the ten-over-format hauls on the list.

Where they were taken, and against whom

Twenty-five of the 57 were taken in India and 32 abroad or at neutral grounds. Sri Lanka have conceded thirteen, the most of any opponent, followed by New Zealand and England with eight each and Australia with seven. Pakistan have conceded five, all of them before 2024, and three of those five came at neutral venues in Toronto, Dhaka and Colombo.

Only one five-for on the list has been taken against Afghanistan and one against Ireland, which is a function of fixtures rather than of quality. The Wankhede Stadium has hosted four of them, more than any other ground; Colombo's Premadasa Stadium has also hosted four, and Toronto's Maple Leaf Ground two, from a total of five India matches ever played there.

The best of them, by cost

Sunil Joshi's 10-6-6-5 against South Africa at Nairobi Gymkhana in September 1999 is the cheapest five-wicket haul in the list by a wide distance: six runs from ten overs, with six maidens. Stuart Binny's 6 for 4 from 4.4 overs against Bangladesh at Mirpur in 2014 is the cheapest six-wicket return in the history of men's ODI cricket, and Binny played fourteen matches in total.

Anil Kumble's 6 for 12 at Eden Gardens in 1993 came in 6.1 overs against a West Indies side chasing a small target in the Hero Cup, and Bumrah's 6 for 19 at The Oval in 2022 removed England for 110. The full ranking by figures rather than by wicket count is on the India ODI best bowling figures page.

Five observations

Only four bowlers have taken more than one five-for while also having a career strike rate under 32 balls a wicket: Mohammed Shami, Jasprit Bumrah, Kuldeep Yadav and Yuzvendra Chahal. All four debuted after 2013, and their combined haul is twelve of the 57. The strike-rate ordering that produces them is on the India ODI best bowling strike rate page.

Anil Kumble took 334 wickets, the most for India in the format, and only two five-fors. Harbhajan Singh took 265 and managed three. Both bowled the middle overs to a plan built on economy, and neither was often bowling at a lower order. That relationship — high wicket total, low five-for count — is the norm for India's spinners before 2015 and the exception after it.

Sachin Tendulkar and Sourav Ganguly have two five-wicket hauls each, the same as Bumrah and Kumble. Both were opening batters who bowled part-time, both took their hauls at home in games where the front-line attack had not worked, and Ganguly's 5 for 16 against Pakistan at Toronto in 1997 is still the cheapest by an India captain.

There is a three-year gap in the middle of the list. After Shami's 5 for 69 at Birmingham on 30 June 2019, the next five-for is Bumrah's at The Oval on 12 July 2022. India played very little one-day cricket in that window and used it mostly for squad rotation.

Ajit Agarkar and Shami are the only India bowlers with ten four-wicket hauls, and Agarkar converted only two of his twelve four-or-more returns into five. The four-wicket totals, where the balance between the two changes considerably, are ranked at India ODI most four wicket hauls. The wider context sits on the cricket in India hub.

Sources and method

The count of hauls per bowler and the innings-by-innings list both come from ESPNcricinfo's Statsguru, filtered to India men's ODIs and consulted in late August 2026. The career table uses Statsguru's bowling career records; the chronological table uses its innings-level view with a five-wicket filter, which returns 57 rows.

Dates are match start dates as the source records them, and venues use the ground name Statsguru gives, with the city added where a stadium name alone would be ambiguous. The overs column is the number of overs bowled in that innings, not the number allowed, which is why several spells stop short of ten.

Opponent and venue counts, the era groupings and the twenty-five-in-India split are all computed on this page from the 57 rows and are arithmetic rather than judgement. Claims about why the hauls cluster where they do — fielding restrictions, attack composition, the sixty-over format — are interpretation, offered as such. Anyone still playing may add to their total after this page was written.