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  2. Finishing with 18 wickets in eight matches to end up as the fifth-highest wicket taker, he played a stellar role in taking Sri Lanka to the finals.

  3. Malinga is known for his ability to take wickets on consecutive balls, often through bowling in-swinging yorkers: he is the only bowler in the world to have two World Cup hat-tricks, [6] the first bowler to take a double hat-trick, the only bowler to take 4 wickets in 4 balls twice in international cricket, the only bowler to have taken three ha...

  4. Apr 6, 2021 · He became the first - and, so far, only - bowler to claim four wickets in four balls, when he took Sri Lanka to the brink of victory against South Africa, in the 2007 World Cup. He has two more...

    • Male
    • September 28, 1983
    • Sri Lanka
  5. Lasith Malinga is the first bowler to take 100 international wickets in all the three formats of the game. Lasith is also the first bowler to have taken 100 wickets in T20Is.

    • August 28, 1983
    • 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)
    • Separamadu Lasith Malinga
    • Sri Lanka
  6. Sep 6, 2019 · 1 - Malinga became the first to take 100 wickets in men's T20Is. He had gone past Shahid Afridi's 98 wickets earlier in this series to become the leading wicket-taker in T20Is. 100 - Number...

    • Bharath Seervi
  7. Jul 25, 2019 · From 2015 onwards, he was in and out of the team several times and did not play a single ODI in 2016. ESPNcricinfo Ltd. 24.7 - Malinga's bowling strike rate in wins - the best among all bowlers...

  8. Sep 6, 2019 · Malinga is the second bowler to take four wickets in four consecutive balls in T20I cricket. Rashid Khan is the only other bowler with this feat. In T20s, Andre Russell and Al Amin Hossain are the others to have taken four wickets in four balls. Malinga is also the only bowler to have taken two hat-tricks in T20I cricket.