Most five wickets in an innings in a career:
| PLAYER | COUNTRY | No. of Times |
| Waqar Younis | Pakistan | 13 |
| M Muralitharan | Sri Lanka | 10 |
| B Lee | Australia | 9 |
| GD McGrath | Australia | 7 |
| L Klusener | South Africa | 6 |
| Wasim Akram | Pakistan | 6 |
| Saqlain Mushtaq | Pakistan | 6 |
| Shahid Afridi | Pakistan | 5 |
| RJ Hadlee | New Zealand | 5 |
| SM Pollock | South Africa | 5 |
| Aaqib Javed | Pakistan | 4 |
| SE Bond | New Zealand | 4 |
| CEL Ambrose | West Indies | 4 |
| WPUJC Vaas | Sri Lanka | 4 |
| M Ntini | South Africa | 4 |
| Shoaib Akhtar | Pakistan | 4 |
| ST Jayasuriya | Sri Lanka | 4 |
| BAW Mendis | Sri Lanka | 3 |
| RJ Harris | Australia | 3 |
| M Dillon | West Indies | 3 |
