A Mishra joins the list of bowlers who have captured 200 plus wickets in the history of Twenty20 games

A Mishra’s wicket aggregate in T20 games read 201 at the end of the IPL game between Delhi Daredevils and Rising Pune Supergiant at Pune-SRS on 11.04.17. He joined the elite list of bowlers who have captured 200 plus wickets in T20 games to become the 18th bowler to accomplish the feat. The following table lists the performance of all the 18 bowlers who have captured 200 plus wickets in the history of T20 games
| No | Player | Mat | Inns | Overs | M | Runs | Wkts | BBI | Ave | 4 | 5 |
| 1 | DJ Bravo | 344 | 327 | 1089.1 | 02 | 8783 | 367 | 5/23 | 23.93 | 08 | 1 |
| 2 | SL Malinga | 228 | 223 | 833.5 | 13 | 5622 | 313 | 6/07 | 17.96 | 08 | 4 |
| 3 | Yasir Arafat | 226 | 224 | 783.4 | 08 | 6345 | 281 | 4/05 | 22.58 | 10 | 0 |
| 4 | SP Narine | 218 | 214 | 833.2 | 17 | 4854 | 269 | 5/19 | 18.04 | 10 | 1 |
| 5 | Shakib Al Hasan | 233 | 227 | 817.3 | 11 | 5529 | 265 | 6/06 | 20.86 | 06 | 2 |
| 6 | Saeed Ajmal | 187 | 186 | 697.2 | 13 | 4534 | 263 | 4/14 | 17.23 | 08 | 0 |
| 7 | AC Thomas | 225 | 214 | 759.4 | 15 | 5737 | 263 | 5/24 | 21.81 | 04 | 1 |
| 8 | Sohail Tanvir | 252 | 248 | 886.1 | 08 | 6439 | 260 | 6/14 | 24.76 | 05 | 1 |
| 9 | Shahid Afridi | 245 | 240 | 875.0 | 11 | 5808 | 259 | 5/07 | 22.42 | 05 | 2 |
| 10 | Azhar Mahmood | 230 | 229 | 804.1 | 10 | 6143 | 258 | 5/24 | 23.81 | 03 | 1 |
| 11 | DP Nannes | 215 | 211 | 770.4 | 09 | 5720 | 257 | 5/31 | 22.25 | 07 | 2 |
| 12 | JA Morkel | 298 | 273 | 809.4 | 08 | 6179 | 240 | 4/25 | 25.74 | 03 | 0 |
| 13 | KA Pollard | 360 | 259 | 682.2 | 01 | 5519 | 233 | 4/15 | 23.68 | 04 | 0 |
| 14 | SW Tait | 171 | 167 | 612.2 | 07 | 4891 | 218 | 5/32 | 22.43 | 03 | 1 |
| 15 | AD Russell | 232 | 216 | 664.1 | 04 | 5364 | 209 | 4/11 | 25.66 | 07 | 0 |
| 16 | A Mishra | 171 | 170 | 604.5 | 10 | 4263 | 201 | 5/17 | 21.20 | 04 | 2 |
| 17 | DW Steyn | 179 | 176 | 662.3 | 11 | 4423 | 201 | 4/09 | 22.00 | 04 | 0 |
| 18 | R Ashwin | 195 | 192 | 691.4 | 07 | 4663 | 200 | 4/08 | 23.31 | 04 | 0 |
It is interesting to note that only two Indian bowlers – R Ashwin and A Mishra – have captured 200 plus wickets in T20 games. The performance of these two bowlers are tabulated below
| No | Player | Mat | Inns | Overs | M | Runs | Wkts | BBI | Ave | 4 | 5 |
| 1 | A Mishra | 171 | 170 | 604.5 | 10 | 4263 | 201 | 5/17 | 21.20 | 04 | 2 |
| 2 | R Ashwin | 195 | 192 | 691.4 | 07 | 4663 | 200 | 4/08 | 23.31 | 04 | 0 |