Complete T20 Blast 5-Wicket Hauls List

Easily the oldest T20 franchise league in the world, the England T20 Blast has come a long way since its inception in 2003. It’s changed quite a few names on the way due to sponsorship reasons and while we always say T20 is a batsman’s game, the bowlers have done really well here too. Some of the bowling records in this league are unparalleled and unprecedented as well.

We already have a complete and extensive list of all the centuries scored in the Vitality T20 Blast in England but today, we’re going to concentrate on the bowlers and their achievements over the years. We’ve gone ahead to list down each and every 5-wicket haul picked up by bowlers in the English T20 Blast from start till date. Keep reading for the full Vitality Blast 5-fers list…

It all began back in the first season when the tournament was called the English T20 Cup 2003. It didn’t take too long to start the bowling fun when Surrey’s Jimmy Ormond became the first bowler to get a 5-fer in this competition. Since then, we’ve had nearly 100 such 5-wicket hauls in England’s premier T20 league, with all stats being updated 27th May 2023, before the start of T20 Blast 2023.

Surrey seemed to be the team to beat and the one with the best bowling resources as another one of their bowlers picked up a 5-fer in that inaugural edition tournament, in Adam Hollioake. He even became the first bowler to get two 5-fers in the history of the T20 Blast, picking up another one in the following English T20 Cup 2004 tournament as well. See the complete T20 Blast 5-fers list below:

England T20 Blast 5-wicket hauls list

Sr.	Name	Team	Date	Figures
1	Jimmy Ormond	Surrey	13 Jun 2003	5/26
2	Richard Logan	Nottinghamshire	16 Jun 2003	5/26
3	Jason Brown	Northamptonshire	20 Jun 2003	5/27
4	Collins Obuya	Warwickshire	20 Jun 2003	5/24
5	Adam Hollioake	Surrey	24 Jun 2003	5/21
6	Adam Hollioake (2)	Surrey	3 Jul 2004	5/34
7	Dimitri Mascarenhas	Hampshire	9 Jul 2004	5/14
8	Mushtaq Ahmed	Sussex	22 Jun 2005	5/11
9	Tim Murtagh	Sussex	23 Jun 2005	6/24
10	Alex Loudon	Warwickshire	25 Jun 2005	5/33
11	Neil Carter	Warwickshire	1 Jul 2005	5/19
12	Murali Kartik	Middlesex	6 Jul 2007	5/13
13	Paul Collingwood	Durham	11 Jun 2008	5/14
14	Andrew Hall	Northamptonshire	13 Jun 2008	6/21
15	Jim Allenby	Leicestershire	15 Jun 2008	5/21
16	Andrew Hall (2)	Northamptonshire	22 Jun 2008	5/29
17	Jim Allenby (2)	Leicestershire	27 Jun 2008	5/27
18	Ryan Watkins	Glamorgan	27 May 2009	5/16
19	Tom Lungley	Derbyshire	28 May 2009	5/27
20	Mitchell Claydon	Durham	31 May 2009	5/26
21	Iain O’Brien	Leicestershire	22 Jun 2009	5/23
22	Andrew McDonald	Leicestershire	15 Jul 2010	5/13
23	Andrew Symonds	Surrey	23 Jun 2010	5/18
24	Tom Smith	Middlesex	24 Jun 2010	5/24
25	Steve Harmison	Durham	22 Jun 2010	5/41
26	Rana Naved-ul-Hasan	Sussex	2 Jun 2011	5/17

Post that, many bowlers went on to get multiple 5-fers in the tournament including Andrew Hall, Jim Allenby, Paul Collingwood, Dirk Nannes, Michael Hogan, and Luke Fletcher. On the other hand, the only bowler to have reached this feat on three different occasions is Tom Smith, representing Middlesex and Gloucestershire over the years in the Vitality T20 Blast.

In a rich history of nearly two decades and twenty seasons, the T2o Cup 2006 is the only single edition where no bowler went on to pick up a 5-wicket haul. As the tournament progressed, the name changed to Friend’s Provident T20 in 2010 only to change to Friend’s Life T20 in 2011. The league changed to Natwest T20 Blast in 2014 and finally, we changed to the Vitality T20 Blast from 2018 onwards…

Sr.	Name	Team	Date	Figures
27	Darren Pattinson	Nottinghamshire	8 Jun 2011	5/25
28	Ollie Rayner	Sussex	14 Jun 2011	5/18
29	Wahab Riaz	Kent	15 Jun 2011	5/17
30	Shahid Afridi	Hampshire	24 Jun 2011	5/20
31	Liam Plunkett	Durham	24 Jun 2011	5/31
32	Arul Suppiah	Somerset	5 Jul 2011	6/5
33	Dirk Nannes	Surrey	7 Jul 2011	5/40
34	Tim Southee	Essex	8 Jul 2011	6/16
35	Rich Pyrah	Yorkshire	10 Jul 2011	5/16
36	Paul Collingwood (2)	Durham	14 Jul 2011	5/6
37	Danny Briggs	Hampshire	7 Aug 2011	5/19
38	Chris Liddle	Sussex	17 Jun 2012	5/17
39	Greg Smith	Essex	20 Jun 2012	5/17
40	Graham Wagg	Glamorgan	28 Jun 2013	5/14
41	Mitchell McClenaghan	Lancashire	1 Jul 2013	5/29
42	Jack Brooks	Yorkshire	9 Jul 2013	5/21
43	Graeme White	Nottinghamshire	28 Jul 2013	5/22
44	Moeen Ali	Worcestershire	30 Jul 2013	5/34
45	Graeme McCarter	Gloucestershire	6 Jun 2014	5/35
46	Richard Jones	Leicestershire	13 Jun 2014	5/34
47	Dirk Nannes (2)	Somerset	15 Jun 2014	5/31
48	Anthony Ireland	Leicestershire	6 Jul 2014	5/22
49	Jesse Ryder	Essex	12 Jul 2014	5/27
50	Daryl Mitchell	Worcestershire	18 Jul 2014	5/28
51	Matthew Fisher	Yorkshire	15 May 2015	5/22
52	Tom Smith (2)	Gloucestershire	24 May 2015	5/39
53	James Franklin	Middlesex	28 May 2015	5/21
54	Kyle Abbott	Middlesex	29 May 2015	5/14
55	David Payne	Gloucestershire	14 Jun 2015	5/24

Quite a few players from this list also managed to get into the T20 Blast centuries list too, and those players need to be appreciated more than the rest. For example, we have Paul Collingwood and Jim Allenby in this list as well as the centuries list, while Jesse Ryder is not to be forgotten either. Pakistani legendary all-rounder Shahid Afridi is another person who made both batting and bowling lists!

Sr.	Name	Team	Date	Figures
56	Joe Leach	Worcestershire	20 May 2016	5/33
57	Paul Coughlin	Durham	17 Jun 2016	5/42
58	Stephen Parry	Lancashire	24 Jun 2016	5/13
59	Ryan Higgins	Middlesex	22 Jul 2016	5/13
60	Liam Dawson	Hampshire	29 Jun 2016	5/17
61	Clint McKay	Leicestershire	14 Jul 2017	5/11
62	Tom Helm	Middlesex	27 Jul 2017	5/11
63	Michael Hogan	Glamorgan	3 Aug 2017	5/17
64	Tim Bresnan	Yorkshire	11 Aug 2017	6/19
65	Adam Milne	Kent	12 Aug 2017	5/11
66	Alex Hepburn	Worcestershire	13 Aug 2017	5/24
67	Azeem Rafiq	Yorkshire	17 Aug 2017	5/19
68	David Wiese	Sussex	4 Jul 2018	5/24
69	James Fuller	Middlesex	20 Jul 2018	6/28
70	Jerome Taylor	Somerset	1 Aug 2018	5/15
71	Chris Wood	Hampshire	1 Aug 2018	5/32
72	Jamie Overton	Somerset	26 Aug 2018	5/47
73	Benny Howell	Gloucestershire	19 Jul 2019	5/18
74	Imran Qayyum	Kent	20 Jul 2019	5/21
75	Toby Roland-Jones	Middlesex	26 Jul 2019	5/21
76	Harry Gurney	Nottinghamshire	26 Jul 2019	5/30
77	Colin Ackermann	Leicestershire	7 Aug 2019	7/18
78	Roelof van der Merwe	Somerset	7 Aug 2019	5/32
79	Steven Finn	Middlesex	8 Aug 2019	5/16
80	Jack Shutt	Yorkshire	23 Aug 2019	5/11
81	Adam Lyth	Yorkshire	25 Aug 2019	5/31
82	Tom Bailey	Lancashire	29 Aug 2020	5/17
83	Luke Fletcher	Nottinghamshire	31 Aug 2020	5/43
84	Tom Smith (3)	Gloucestershire	2 Sep 2020	5/16
85	Shaheen Shah Afridi	Hampshire	20 Sep 2020	6/19

A total of seven bowlers have gone on to get 6-wicket hauls in tis tournament over the years while we want to make a special mention of a Leicestershire bowler who holds the record for the best bowling figures in the T20 Blast history. Netherlands international Colin Ackermann picked up 7/18 in Vitality Blast 2019 and he remains the only bowler to pick up a 7-wicket haul in T20 Blast history.

Sr.	Name	Team	Date	Figures
86	Chris Green	Middlesex	11 Jun 2021	5/32
87	Matt Milnes	Kent	16 Jun 2021	5/22
88	Lewis Gregory	Somerset	1 Jul 2021	5/24
89	Michael Hogan (2)	Glamorgan	27 May 2022	5/18
90	Luke Fletcher (2)	Nottinghamshire	27 May 2022	5/32
91	Richard Gleeson	Lancashire	29 May 2022	5/33
92	Obed McCoy	Sussex	1 Jun 2022	5/33
93	Sam Curran	Surrey	2 Jun 2022	5/30
94	Ben Green	Somerset	3 Jun 2022	5/29
95	Naveen-ul-Haq	Leicestershire	5 Jun 2022	5/11
96	Josh Cobb	Northamptonshire	9 Jun 2022	5/25
97	Brad Wheal	Hampshire	10 Jun 2022	5/38
98	Andrew Tye	Durham	19 Jun 2022	5/38
99	Nathan Sowter	Durham	26 May 2023	5/15
100	NA	NA	NA	NA

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England T20 Blast 5-wicket hauls list

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