Top 5 Bowlers with Most wickets in a single World Cup tournament

Top 5 Bowlers with Most wickets in a single World Cup tournament: ICC Cricket World cup is not just about the batting, but also about wonderful bowling also. Great bowling brings the ultimate balance to the dominance of batting in today’s slam bang format of cricket.
Here are 5 such bowlers who took most wickets in a single world cup:

5. Geoff Allott (NZ) (1999) / Shane Warne (Aus)(1999) – 20 Wickets

The wily New Zealand pace man overtook Roger Binny’s 16 year old record of 18 wickets in the 1983 World cup by taking 20 wickets in the tournament. Allott was a left-handed fast bowler who could swing the ball both ways and got good help from the humid English climate to pick up 20 wickets and lead New Zealand to the semifinals where they lost to Pakistan.

Aussie leg spinner Shane Warne also reached the 20 wickets mark with 4 wickets each in the semi-finals and the finals of the World cup. He took 4-29 against South Africa in the Semifinals to help tie the game, which took Australia in the finals because of them beating the Proteas in round robin league. He then again took 4-33 to rout Pakistan for just 132 in the final to help Australia win the World cup for the second time.