Highest wickets in a calender year:
| PLAYER | COUNTRY | MATCHES | WICKETS | RUNS | OVERS | Mdns | AVG | ECON | YEAR |
| Saqlain Mushtaq | Pakistan | 34 | 69 | 1293 | 312 | 17 | 18.74 | 4.14 | 1997 |
| Saqlain Mushtaq | Pakistan | 32 | 65 | 1269 | 288 | 12 | 19.52 | 4.41 | 1996 |
| SK Warne | Australia | 36 | 62 | 1443 | 329 | 27 | 23.27 | 4.39 | 1999 |
| SM Pollock | South Africa | 37 | 61 | 1319 | 330 | 28 | 21.62 | 4.00 | 2000 |
| Abdul Razzaq | Pakistan | 38 | 61 | 1370 | 314 | 22 | 22.46 | 4.36 | 2000 |
| A Kumble | India | 32 | 61 | 1235 | 302 | 16 | 20.25 | 4.09 | 1996 |
| Waqar Younis | Pakistan | 34 | 60 | 1348 | 287 | 17 | 22.47 | 4.70 | 1996 |
| AB Agarkar | India | 30 | 58 | 1378 | 268 | 13 | 23.76 | 5.14 | 1998 |
| M Muralitharan | Sri Lanka | 33 | 56 | 1019 | 308 | 29 | 18.20 | 3.31 | 2001 |
| SM Pollock | South Africa | 38 | 54 | 1274 | 331 | 33 | 23.59 | 3.85 | 2002 |
| GD McGrath | Australia | 27 | 52 | 983 | 239 | 20 | 18.90 | 4.11 | 1999 |
| Waqar Younis | Pakistan | 36 | 52 | 1424 | 283 | 24 | 27.38 | 5.03 | 2002 |
| B Lee | Australia | 26 | 51 | 1017 | 225 | 23 | 19.94 | 4.52 | 2005 |
| AA Donald | South Africa | 20 | 51 | 787 | 182 | 5 | 15.43 | 4.32 | 1996 |
| M Ntini | South Africa | 31 | 50 | 1196 | 279 | 32 | 23.92 | 4.29 | 2002 |
| SK Warne | Australia | 29 | 50 | 1045 | 273 | 13 | 20.90 | 3.83 | 1994 |
| Mashrafe Mortaza | Bangladesh | 27 | 49 | 1003 | 237 | 26 | 20.47 | 4.23 | 2006 |
| BAW Mendis | Sri Lanka | 17 | 48 | 486 | 134 | 13 | 10.12 | 3.63 | 2008 |
| IK Pathan | India | 28 | 47 | 1240 | 247 | 11 | 26.38 | 5.02 | 2004 |
| Waqar Younis | Pakistan | 19 | 47 | 594 | 157 | 12 | 12.64 | 3.78 | 1990 |
| MG Johnson | Australia | 29 | 46 | 1383 | 261 | 14 | 30.07 | 5.30 | 2009 |
| C Pringle | New Zealand | 26 | 46 | 1041 | 225 | 12 | 22.63 | 4.63 | 1994 |
| NW Bracken | Australia | 23 | 46 | 866 | 194 | 19 | 18.83 | 4.46 | 2006 |
| BKV Prasad | India | 34 | 46 | 1229 | 290 | 27 | 26.72 | 4.24 | 1999 |
| Azhar Mahmood | Pakistan | 27 | 46 | 866 | 230 | 20 | 18.83 | 3.77 | 1999 |
| B Lee | Australia | 24 | 46 | 926 | 204 | 23 | 20.13 | 4.54 | 2003 |
| JH Kallis | South Africa | 37 | 46 | 1356 | 284 | 18 | 29.48 | 4.77 | 2000 |
| M Muralitharan | Sri Lanka | 24 | 46 | 731 | 217 | 24 | 15.89 | 3.37 | 2003 |
| Abdur Razzak | Bangladesh | 26 | 45 | 808 | 229 | 19 | 17.96 | 3.53 | 2006 |
| BKV Prasad | India | 30 | 45 | 1298 | 273 | 11 | 28.84 | 4.75 | 1996 |