| World Cup - Highest Wicket Takers | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Players | Country | Wickets | Matches | Maidens | Runs |
| SL Malinga | Sri Lanka | 33 | 25 | 0 | 653 |
| Saeed Ajmal | Pakistan | 32 | 19 | 1 | 495 |
| BAW Mendis | Sri Lanka | 31 | 18 | 3 | 418 |
| Shahid Afridi | Pakistan | 31 | 26 | 1 | 690 |
| Umar Gul | Pakistan | 29 | 20 | 0 | 481 |
| SCJ Broad | England | 26 | 21 | 2 | 569 |
| DT Johnston | Ireland | 23 | 19 | 3 | 418 |
| M Morkel | South Africa | 22 | 15 | 0 | 371 |
| GP Swann | England | 22 | 15 | 2 | 358 |
| MG Johnson | Australia | 20 | 14 | 0 | 351 |
| DL Vettori | New Zealand | 20 | 17 | 0 | 392 |
| DW Steyn | South Africa | 20 | 16 | 1 | 358 |
| AR Cusack | Ireland | 19 | 17 | 1 | 312 |
| PM Seelaar | Netherlands | 19 | 13 | 2 | 296 |
| GH Dockrell | Ireland | 17 | 12 | 1 | 252 |
| NL McCullum | New Zealand | 16 | 14 | 0 | 294 |
| Harbhajan Singh | India | 16 | 18 | 4 | 468 |
| KJ O'Brien | Ireland | 16 | 15 | 0 | 280 |
| IK Pathan | India | 16 | 14 | 1 | 321 |
| R Rampaul | West Indies | 15 | 11 | 1 | 345 |