Zaheer Khan captured his 50^th wicket in Twenty20 games when he clean bowled VS Malik for 6 in the game between Mumbai and Mohali at Mumbai {BS} on 30.03.10 during his spell of 4.0-0-34-3.

He became the 45th bowler in the history of Twenty20 games to aggregate 50 plus wickets. The complete list as at the end of the game between Bangalore and Mohali at Mohali on 02.04.10 is furnished below

No	Bowler	Mat	W	Runs	BBI	Ave	4	5
1	Yasir Arafat	69	90	1777	4/17	19.74	4	0
2	GR Napier	66	88	1680	4/10	19.09	1	0
3	JA Morkel	101	87	2322	4/30	26.68	2	0
4	Umar Gul	52	86	1250	5/06	14.53	6	1
5	T Henderson	75	84	1937	4/29	23.05	1	0
6	DP Nannes	60	83	1540	4/11	18.55	4	0
7	AD Mascarenhas	65	80	1566	5/14	19.57	1	1
8	Shahid Afridi	61	78	1338	4/11	17.15	3	0
9	M Muralitharan	60	77	1386	4/16	18.00	3	0
10	AJ Hall	56	75	1446	6/21	19.28	1	2
11	Azhar Mahmood	62	71	1534	4/20	21.60	1	0
12	CM Willoughby	65	70	1691	4/09	24.15	3	0
13	IK Pathan	62	70	1633	4/27	23.32	1	0
14	J Louw	53	68	1354	4/18	19.91	2	0
15	RP Singh	54	67	1507	4/13	22.49	2	0
16	AC Thomas	63	66	1432	4/27	21.69	1	0
17	Saeed Ajmal	43	62	1015	4/19	16.37	2	0
18	SL Malinga	52	62	1203	4/22	19.40	1	0
19	TJ Murtagh	51	62	1464	6/24	23.61	0	1
20	CK Langeveldt	41	61	0964	5/16	15.80	3	1
21	ND Doshi	44	61	0975	4/22	15.98	4	0
22	DL Vettori	47	61	1094	4/20	17.93	1	0
23	GP Swann	51	61	1218	3/14	19.96	0	0
24	NM Carter	62	61	1486	5/19	24.36	0	1
25	JJ van der Wath	63	61	1582	3/23	25.93	0	0
26	SJ Cook	51	60	1348	3/14	22.46	0	0
27	R McLaren	74	60	1783	4/37	29.71	1	0
28	PP Ojha	46	58	1121	4/21	19.32	1	0
29	JC Tredwell	66	58	1392	4/21	24.00	1	0
30	Danish Kaneria	45	57	1094	4/22	19.19	2	0
31	DJ Bravo	57	57	1441	4/23	25.28	2	0
32	SB Styris	82	57	1627	3/15	28.54	0	0
33	ST Jayasuriya	74	56	1276	4/24	22.78	1	0
34	DW Steyn	51	56	1328	4/09	23.71	1	0
35	A Mishra	38	55	0961	5/17	17.47	0	1
36	BAW Mendis	37	54	0812	4/09	15.03	3	0
37	Abdul Razzaq	39	53	0935	4/13	17.64	2	0
38	SW Tait	30	52	0841	4/14	16.17	1	0
39	Naved-ul-Hasan	47	52	1122	4/23	21.57	1	0
40	IJ Harvey	54	52	1234	4/18	23.73	1	0
41	RJ Kirtley	54	51	1251	4/22	24.52	1	0
42	YA Abdulla	38	50	895	4/31	17.90	2	0
43	Mohammad Asif	34	50	1015	5/11	20.30	3	1
44	CW Henderson	55	50	1144	3/23	22.88	0	0
45	Z Khan	46	50	1273	4/19	25.46	1	0

Zaheer Khan became the fifth Indian bowler to capture 50 plus wickets in Twenty20 games. The other four are – IK Pathan, RP Singh, PP Ojha and A Mishra

No	Bowler	Mat	W	Runs	BBI	Ave	4	5
1	IK Pathan	62	70	1633	4/27	23.32	1	0
2	RP Singh	54	67	1507	4/13	22.49	2	0
3	PP Ojha	46	58	1121	4/21	19.32	1	0
4	A Mishra	38	55	0961	5/17	17.47	0	1
5	Z Khan	46	50	1273	4/19	25.46	1	0

Third edition of IPL has witnessed the following bowlers aggregating 50 plus wickets in Twenty20 games – YA Abdullah, SW Tait, PP Ojha, A Mishra, DW Steyn and Zaheer Khan.

Harbhajan Singh with 49 wickets and PP Chawla with 48 wickets to their credit need one and two wickets respectively to aggregate 50 wickets in Twenty20 games