India Women Best Bowling Figures: International Records

Neetu David bowled 31.3 overs and took 8 for 53 against England at Jamshedpur on 24 November 1995. Thirty-one years later it is still the best innings return by an India woman in any form of the game, and only one bowler has come level on wickets: Sneh Rana, 8 for 77 against South Africa at Chennai in June 2024.

The best in the two white-ball formats are smaller numbers with more compression behind them. Mamatha Maben took 6 for 10 in 6.2 overs against Sri Lanka at Kandy in April 2004 — the cheapest six-wicket haul in India's women's records. Deepti Sharma's 5 for 10 from four overs against Pakistan at Birmingham in June 2026 is the best Twenty20 figure.

This page ranks all three formats separately, because the units are not comparable: a bowler gets 40 or more overs in a Test, ten in a one-day international and four in a Twenty20. What travels across all three is the ratio, and by that measure the two most striking returns in India's women's history are Gargi Banerji's 6 for 9 at Cuttack in 1985 and Deepti Sharma's 5 for 7 at DY Patil in 2023.

Best innings return in each format

Format	Figures	Player	Overs	Opponent	Venue	Date
Test	8/53	Neetu David	31.3	England	Jamshedpur	24 Nov 1995
ODI	6/10	Mamatha Maben	6.2	Sri Lanka	Kandy	25 Apr 2004
T20I	5/10	Deepti Sharma	4.0	Pakistan	Birmingham	14 Jun 2026

David's figures came in the first year of her Test career. She finished the match with 9 for 90, and went on to take 41 Test wickets from ten matches spread over eleven years, because ten was how many Tests India gave her.

Tests: every return of five or more

Complete down to 5 for 37. Seventeen five-wicket hauls exist in India's women's Test record; the five not listed are all worse than 5 for 37.

Figures	Player	Overs	Mdns	Opponent	Venue	Date
8/53	Neetu David	31.3	12	England	Jamshedpur	24 Nov 1995
8/77	Sneh Rana	25.3	4	South Africa	Chennai	28 Jun 2024
6/9	Gargi Banerji	9.4	6	New Zealand	Cuttack	7 Mar 1985
6/64	Diana Edulji	25.3	5	Australia	Delhi	21 Jan 1984
6/99	Shubhangi Kulkarni	22.2	0	Australia	Perth	15 Jan 1977
6/99	Shubhangi Kulkarni	29.0	3	New Zealand	Ahmedabad	23 Feb 1985
5/7	Deepti Sharma	5.3	4	England	DY Patil, Navi Mumbai	14 Dec 2023
5/24	Purnima Rau	20.0	10	England	Shenley	15 Jul 1999
5/25	S Chakraborty	15.0	2	West Indies	Delhi	12 Nov 1976
5/25	Jhulan Goswami	20.0	10	England	Delhi	21 Nov 2005
5/33	Jhulan Goswami	13.0	4	England	Taunton	29 Aug 2006
5/37	Kranti Gaud	17.0	7	England	Lord's	10 Jul 2026

Gargi Banerji's 6 for 9 is the strangest entry in India's women's records. She took eight Test wickets in twelve matches, six of them in that one innings at Cuttack, at an economy rate of 0.93. She was picked as a batter — six Test fifties, no hundred — and this is the only time she took more than two wickets in an innings.

Deepti Sharma's 5 for 7 from 5.3 overs at DY Patil is the cheapest five-wicket haul in the list and the shortest: 33 balls. Purnima Rau's 5 for 24 at Shenley included ten maidens in twenty overs, and Jhulan Goswami's 5 for 25 at Delhi in 2005 did the same in the same proportion.

Note how many of these are against England. Seven of the twelve, spread from 1995 to 2026, and three of them by the same two bowlers at Delhi, Taunton and Lord's. That is a fixture pattern: England have played India in women's Tests more often than anyone.

The best match figures in Tests

Figures	Player	Opponent	Venue	Date
10/78	Jhulan Goswami	England	Taunton	29 Aug 2006
10/188	Sneh Rana	South Africa	Chennai	28 Jun 2024
9/39	Deepti Sharma	England	DY Patil, Navi Mumbai	14 Dec 2023
9/85	Harmanpreet Kaur	South Africa	Mysore	16 Nov 2014
9/90	Neetu David	England	Jamshedpur	24 Nov 1995
8/100	S Gupta	Australia	Lucknow	28 Jan 1984
7/57	Shubhangi Kulkarni	West Indies	Patna	17 Nov 1976
7/70	S Chakraborty	West Indies	Delhi	12 Nov 1976
7/76	Shubhangi Kulkarni	West Indies	Bengaluru	31 Oct 1976
7/91	Kranti Gaud	England	Lord's	10 Jul 2026
7/98	Purnima Rau	England	Shenley	15 Jul 1999
7/119	Sneh Rana	Australia	Wankhede, Mumbai	21 Dec 2023

Goswami's ten wickets at Taunton in 2006 came in the Test India won, their first Test victory in England, and 10 for 78 remains the cheapest ten-wicket match haul by an India woman. Sneh Rana's 10 for 188 at Chennai is the only other one, and it came in a match India won by ten wickets.

Harmanpreet Kaur's 9 for 85 at Mysore is the entry nobody expects. She has bowled 428 balls in eight Tests across twelve years and taken twelve wickets, nine of them in one match — the same match in which Thirush Kamini made 192 and Punam Raut 130.

Shubhangi Kulkarni's two entries both come from India's first Test series, at home to West Indies in the winter of 1976. She took 7 for 76 at Bengaluru in India's first Test and 7 for 57 at Patna a fortnight later.

One-day internationals: every five-wicket return

Complete down to 5 for 38. Seventeen exist in the record; the two not listed are worse than that.

Figures	Player	Overs	Mdns	Econ	Opponent	Venue	Date
6/10	Mamatha Maben	6.2	3	1.57	Sri Lanka	Kandy	25 Apr 2004
6/20	Deepti Sharma	9.2	1	2.14	Sri Lanka	Ranchi	19 Feb 2016
6/31	Jhulan Goswami	10.0	1	3.10	New Zealand	Southgate	5 Jul 2011
6/31	Deepti Sharma	10.0	3	3.10	West Indies	Vadodara	27 Dec 2024
6/52	Kranti Gaud	9.5	1	5.28	England	Chester-le-Street	22 Jul 2025
5/8	Ekta Bisht	10.0	7	0.80	Pakistan	Colombo (PSS)	19 Feb 2017
5/14	Nooshin Al Khadeer	6.5	2	2.04	England	Lincoln	27 Jan 2003
5/15	Rajeshwari Gayakwad	7.3	1	2.00	New Zealand	Derby	15 Jul 2017
5/16	Jhulan Goswami	10.0	3	1.60	England	Silchar	7 Dec 2005
5/18	Ekta Bisht	10.0	2	1.80	Pakistan	Derby	2 Jul 2017
5/20	Neetu David	9.4	3	2.06	West Indies	Jamshedpur	29 Feb 2004
5/21	P Choudhary	8.0	0	2.62	West Indies	Faridabad	13 Dec 1997
5/29	Renuka Singh	10.0	1	2.90	West Indies	Vadodara	22 Dec 2024
5/32	Neetu David	10.0	3	3.20	New Zealand	Pretoria	30 Mar 2005
5/38	Deepti Sharma	10.0	0	3.80	Australia	Wankhede, Mumbai	30 Dec 2023

Ekta Bisht's 5 for 8 at Colombo, with seven maidens in a full ten-over allocation and an economy rate of 0.80, is the most miserly complete spell in India's women's one-day records. She took 5 for 18 against the same opponents at Derby four months later, also with a full ten overs.

Two of the fifteen came in the same week at Vadodara in December 2024 — Renuka Singh's 5 for 29 and Deepti Sharma's 6 for 31, both against West Indies. Deepti has four of India's seventeen one-day five-wicket hauls, which is more than anyone.

Mamatha Maben's 6 for 10 stands slightly apart from the rest of her career. She played 40 one-day internationals and took 21 wickets; more than a quarter of them came in that spell at Kandy.

Twenty20 internationals: five in four overs, and the four-wicket hauls

Figures	Player	Overs	Econ	Opponent	Venue	Date
5/10	Deepti Sharma	4.0	2.50	Pakistan	Birmingham	14 Jun 2026
5/11	Jhulan Goswami	3.5	2.86	Australia	Visakhapatnam	23 Mar 2012
5/15	Renuka Singh	4.0	3.75	England	Gqeberha	18 Feb 2023
5/16	Priyanka Roy	3.5	4.17	Pakistan	Taunton	13 Jun 2009
5/19	Deepti Sharma	4.0	4.75	South Africa	Johannesburg	25 Apr 2026
4/9	SK Naidu	3.0	3.00	Bangladesh	Cox's Bazar	9 Mar 2014
4/9	Poonam Yadav	4.0	2.25	Bangladesh	Kuala Lumpur	10 Jun 2018
4/10	Deepti Sharma	4.0	2.50	West Indies	Gros Islet	10 Nov 2019
4/10	Renuka Singh	4.0	2.50	Barbados	Birmingham	3 Aug 2022
4/12	DP David	4.0	3.00	Sri Lanka	Basseterre	10 May 2010
4/12	Shree Charani	3.5	3.13	England	Nottingham	28 Jun 2025
4/13	Pooja Vastrakar	3.1	4.10	South Africa	Chennai	9 Jul 2024
4/17	Pooja Vastrakar	4.0	4.25	Bangladesh	Hangzhou	24 Sep 2023
4/17	Titas Sadhu	4.0	4.25	Australia	DY Patil, Navi Mumbai	5 Jan 2024
4/18	Renuka Singh	4.0	4.50	Australia	Birmingham	29 Jul 2022

Five five-wicket hauls in 225 Twenty20 internationals, and two of them belong to Deepti Sharma. Her 5 for 10 at Birmingham in June 2026 is the newest and the best; her 5 for 19 at Johannesburg came seven weeks earlier.

Priyanka Roy's 5 for 16 against Pakistan at Taunton in June 2009 was the first by an India woman in the format. Jhulan Goswami's 5 for 11 at Visakhapatnam three years later improved on it and stood as the best for fourteen years, through Renuka Singh's 5 for 15 at Gqeberha in the 2023 World Twenty20, until Deepti Sharma beat it in 2026.

Renuka Singh has three of the fifteen entries, level with Deepti Sharma, and hers include the only four-wicket haul against a side outside the international list — 4 for 10 against Barbados at Birmingham in the 2022 Commonwealth Games.

What the figures show that the wicket count does not

The best returns come disproportionately from bowlers who did not have long careers. Mamatha Maben has India's best one-day figures and 21 one-day wickets. Gargi Banerji has one of the two best Test innings returns and eight Test wickets. Neither would appear anywhere on the India women most wickets leaderboard.

Spin dominates the Test list and the one-day list, and pace has taken over the Twenty20 list. Of the five T20I five-wicket hauls, three are by seamers — Goswami and Renuka Singh twice between them — and this is the only format where that is true. The reasons are on the India women best bowling averages page, where the qualified career figures separate the two disciplines more cleanly.

The venues repeat. DY Patil Stadium at Navi Mumbai appears three times across the four tables, Vadodara twice in the same week, Birmingham three times in the Twenty20 list. That is a function of where India women now play, and the ground records for the busiest of them sit on the DY Patil Stadium records page.

For how often these returns turned into multiple hauls, the India women most five-wicket hauls list is the companion to this one. The batting side of the same fixtures is on the India women most centuries page, the team's arc on the India women's cricket history page, and the domestic game beneath it on the women's domestic cricket page — all reachable from the cricket in India hub.

Sources and method

Every figure, over count, maiden count, economy rate, opponent, venue and date comes from ESPNcricinfo's Statsguru ranked innings and match bowling records for India Women in women's Tests, women's one-day internationals and women's Twenty20 internationals, read on 27 August 2026.

The Test and one-day tables are stated as complete down to a named figure rather than as complete overall, because the ranked innings pages display a fixed number of rows. The five-wicket-haul counts used to work out how many rows are missing — seventeen in Tests, seventeen in one-day internationals, five in Twenty20 internationals — come from the career five-wicket columns for the same three classes, so the gap between the two counts is known rather than assumed.

Match figures for Tests are Statsguru's own combined two-innings totals. Where a bowler's best innings and best match figures come from the same Test, the match row is listed once and the innings row once; they are not two performances.

Bowlers are named as the records name them. Where only an initial and surname are published and the full name could not be confirmed against an authoritative source, the initial form has been kept rather than expanded on a guess.

Economy rates are as published. Descriptions of a bowler as pace or spin are mine and reflect the style each is consistently recorded as bowling, not a Statsguru field. Records of this kind move with each series, and nothing on the page has been estimated or rounded.