Top 10: Most Wickets in a Single Champions Trophy Edition

The Champions Trophy (CT) format is that there is very little room for staging a comeback for a side once they are down. The same thing can be applied to the individual players wherein they must be at their best form throughout the campaign or their tourney will collapse in the blink of an eye.

On the plus side, it also allows the players in good form to flourish even better. Hence, a player’s performance in this ICC event is as important as that of other multi-national tournaments.

In this article, we will talk about one such individual brilliance accomplished by players in the 8 editions of CT that have gone by. We talk about the bowlers who have carried their team throughout the tourney in the bowling department by picking a major chunk of wickets. Here is the list of players with the most wickets in a single edition of CT.

Most Wickets in a Champions Trophy Edition

Key Stats

14 bowlers have picked 10 or more wickets in a single Champions Trophy tourney. The others with exactly 10 wickets are Glenn McGrath (2006), Kyle Mills (2006), Ishant Sharma (2013) and Stuart Broad (2009).

In editions where Hasan Ali, Ravindra Jadeja, Nathan Bracken, Glenn McGrath, and Ishant Sharma took 10 or more wickets, their respective sides won the CT.

There have been 105 instances in CT history, where a bowler has picked at least 5 wickets in a single edition.

Muttiah Muralitharan’s bowling average of 7.00 in the 2002 edition is the lowest for a bowler with a minimum of 6 wickets in a single edition. Shahid Afridi of Pakistan took 5 scalps in 2004 CT at an average of 6.80 in 2 innings he bowled.

Maharoof’s 6/14 is the best bowling figure ever recorded in CT and it came in Sri Lanka’s game against West Indies at Mumbai in 2006. The only other bowler to pick a six-wicket haul in CT is Josh Hazlewood (6/52) of Australia and he did so against New Zealand at Birmingham in the 2017 edition. It is to be noted that only 9 other bowlers have recorded a fifer in an innings in CT history.

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