2025 Records

2025 Stats: Most Wickets Across All Formats (Test+ODI+T20I)

Player Team Matches Innings Wickets Avg Econ SR 5W
Blessing Muzarabani Zimbabwe 11 12 36 22.13 3.94 33.63 3
Kaleem Sana Canada 16 15 27 16.18 5.50 17.62
Jacob Duffy New Zealand 12 12 26 14.92 5.84 15.30
Milind Kumar USA 17 14 25 15.48 4.46 20.80 1
Matt Henry New Zealand 10 10 25 16.76 5.22 19.24 1
Adil Rashid England 15 15 25 25.68 6.33 24.32
Shakeel Ahmed Oman 11 11 24 12.95 3.58 21.66
Varun Chakravarthy India 9 9 24 13.66 5.65 14.50 2
Umair Tariq Austria 12 11 24 7.66 6.27 7.33 1
Bernard Scholtz Namibia 10 10 22 12.00 3.34 21.54 1

Key Insights

Blessing Muzarabani became the first bowler to take 30 wickets across formats in 2025.

Muzarabani also became the fourth Zimbabwe bowler to take 25 or more wickets in a calendar year in Tests. He might shatter the late Heath Streak‘s record of 34 Test wickets picked up in 1998.

Here is the record for the most wickets picked by a fast bowler in a calendar year.

Muzarabani was also the first bowler to take a five-wicket haul in international cricket this year. The right-arm pacer picked up six wickets for 95 runs in the third innings against Afghanistan in the Bulawayo Test.

Thus far, Jomel Warrican’s 7 for 32 are the best bowling figures across formats, this year. His performance triggered a collapse for Pakistan in the Multan Test.