The Fifers Strikers- Players With Successive 5-wicket Hauls in ODIs

The Fifers Strikers- Players With Successive 5-wicket Hauls in ODIs: In ODIs, you only get a total of 10 overs to bowl and taking a fifer is somewhat considered too hard and a commendable achievement. But throughout the years, we have seen bowlers taking a number of 5-wicket hauls in ODIs. In fact there has been a total of 416 5-wicket hauls being struck in ODIs throughout the days of ODIs. Waqar Younis leads the chart of fifers with as many as 13, 5-wicket hauls.

But, in order to push the bars to a further level, some bowlers achieved the feat of striking 5-wickets on successive occasions. Mustafizur Rahman, of late, managed to carve his name to a unique record by taking back to back five wicket hauls against India in the first two ODIs. No other bowler, except Brian Vettori has managed to strike 2 fifers in the first two ODIs of his ODI career. In fact Mustafizur stands with 11 wickets after his first two ODIs. No other bowler has gone this far, not even the legends of the game.

Let us extract some time to take a glance at The Fifers Strikers- Players With Successive 5-wicket Hauls in ODIs:

1 – Gary Gilmour (Australia):

The Australian pacer managed to strike back to back fifers in the semi final and in the final of 1975 World Cup. In the semi final, Gilmour managed to bag 6 wickets against England. His figures were 12-6-14-6. In the final, Gilmour managed to bag another 5 wickets against West Indies but unfortunately ended up being on the losing side. His figures were 12-2-48-5.