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Player Age Team Opposition Ground Match Date Scorecard
N Gifford 44y 359d England v Australia Sharjah 24 Mar 1985 ODI # 322
R Sharma 43y 306d Hong Kong v Bangladesh Colombo (SSC) 16 Jul 2004 ODI # 2143
Mohammad Tauqir 43y 36d U.A.E. v Zimbabwe Nelson 19 Feb 2015 ODI # 3606
SW Lubbers 42y 330d Netherlands v New Zealand Vadodara 17 Feb 1996 ODI # 1051
CEB Rice 42y 110d South Africa v India Kolkata 10 Nov 1991 ODI # 686
RB Simpson 42y 19d Australia v West Indies St John's 22 Feb 1978 ODI # 48
DB Close 41y 182d England v Australia Manchester 24 Aug 1972 ODI # 2
DS de Silva 40y 264d Sri Lanka v New Zealand Dunedin 2 Mar 1983 ODI # 186
AJ Traicos 40y 146d Zimbabwe v New Zealand Hyderabad (Deccan) 10 Oct 1987 ODI # 454
GR Codrington 40y 0d Canada v Netherlands Potchefstroom 26 Nov 2006 ODI # 2448
S Dhaniram 39y 1d Canada v Kenya Nairobi (Gym) 18 Oct 2007 ODI # 2634
R Illingworth 38y 211d England v Australia Melbourne 5 Jan 1971 ODI # 1
JH Edrich 37y 260d England v New Zealand Dunedin 8 Mar 1975 ODI # 17
RB Kanhai 37y 253d West Indies v England Leeds 5 Sep 1973 ODI # 8
KWR Fletcher 37y 189d England v India Ahmedabad 25 Nov 1981 ODI # 125
JV Harris 37y 179d Canada v Bangladesh Durban 11 Feb 2003 ODI # 1946
G Boycott 37y 70d England v Pakistan Sialkot 30 Dec 1977 ODI # 46
FL Reifer 37y 3d West Indies v Bangladesh Roseau 26 Jul 2009 ODI # 2862
CG Greenidge 36y 319d West Indies v Pakistan St John's 15 Mar 1988 ODI # 507
JM Davison 36y 7d Canada v Zimbabwe Port of Spain 16 May 2006 ODI # 2374
AJ Lamb 35y 287d England v West Indies Bridgetown 3 Apr 1990 ODI # 622
Sarfraz Nawaz 35y 116d Pakistan v England Karachi 26 Mar 1984 ODI # 256
GA Gooch 35y 43d England v Sri Lanka The Oval 4 Sep 1988 ODI # 521
JM Brearley 35y 35d England v Australia Manchester 2 Jun 1977 ODI # 42
BE Congdon 35y 0d New Zealand v Pakistan Christchurch 11 Feb 1973 ODI # 5
RD Jacobs 34y 351d West Indies v India Rajkot 12 Nov 2002 ODI # 1895
GM Hamilton 34y 294d Scotland v Canada Aberdeen 7 Jul 2009 ODI # 2856
RW Staple 34y 290d U.S.A. v New Zealand The Oval 10 Sep 2004 ODI # 2169
DL Murray 34y 278d West Indies v Australia St John's 22 Feb 1978 ODI # 48
J Smits 34y 274d Netherlands v Scotland Basseterre 22 Mar 2007 ODI # 2549
DAG Fletcher 34y 255d Zimbabwe v Australia Nottingham 9 Jun 1983 ODI # 199
Zaheer Abbas 34y 250d Pakistan v Sri Lanka Karachi 31 Mar 1982 ODI # 151
DL Houghton 34y 245d Zimbabwe v Sri Lanka New Plymouth 23 Feb 1992 ODI # 716
KD Mills 34y 233d New Zealand v Bangladesh Fatullah 3 Nov 2013 ODI # 3429
JE Emburey 34y 225d England v India Sharjah 2 Apr 1987 ODI # 442
Rizwan Cheema 34y 208d Canada v Kenya Dubai (CA) 11 Mar 2013 ODI # 3344
KC Wessels 34y 165d South Africa v Australia Sydney 26 Feb 1992 ODI # 719
M Amarnath 34y 37d India v Pakistan Sialkot 31 Oct 1984 ODI # 273
Misbah-ul-Haq 34y 35d Pakistan v India Karachi 2 Jul 2008 ODI # 2730
IH Romaine 34y 11d Bermuda v Canada Toronto 19 Aug 2006 ODI # 2406
MG Burgess 33y 363d New Zealand v England Scarborough 15 Jul 1978 ODI # 52
SMH Kirmani 33y 353d India v West Indies Guwahati 17 Dec 1983 ODI # 230
WM Lawry 33y 328d Australia v England Melbourne 5 Jan 1971 ODI # 1
AY Karim 33y 299d Kenya v Bangladesh Nairobi (Gym) 10 Oct 1997 ODI # 1239
PJL Dujon 33y 291d West Indies v England Georgetown 15 Mar 1990 ODI # 621
DL Haynes 33y 244d West Indies v Pakistan Sharjah 17 Oct 1989 ODI # 574
TM Dilshan 33y 228d Sri Lanka v India Bulawayo 30 May 2010 ODI # 2983
AH Jones 33y 217d New Zealand v Sri Lanka Colombo (PSS) 12 Dec 1992 ODI # 776
AL Wadekar 33y 103d India v England Leeds 13 Jul 1974 ODI # 12
Sultan Zarawani 33y 79d U.A.E. v India Sharjah 13 Apr 1994 ODI # 904
LP van Troost 33y 65d Netherlands v Namibia Bloemfontein 3 Mar 2003 ODI # 1978
Khurram Khan 33y 25d U.A.E. v India Dambulla 16 Jul 2004 ODI # 2144
RP Lefebvre 33y 19d Netherlands v Pakistan Lahore 26 Feb 1996 ODI # 1062

Records include the following recent matches:
Australia v Afghanistan at Perth, ICC Cricket World Cup 26th match, Mar 4, 2015 [ODI # 3623]
Pakistan v United Arab Emirates at Napier, ICC Cricket World Cup 25th match, Mar 4, 2015 [ODI # 3622]
Ireland v South Africa at Canberra, ICC Cricket World Cup 24th match, Mar 3, 2015 [ODI # 3621]

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Glenn McGrath took 26 wickets at the 2007 World Cup and topped the wickets tally. This is the most wickets by any bowler in a single edition, but McGrath never took more than three wickets in any match. He took at least one wicket in each of the eleven matches that he played.

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