Records
- Only bowler in cricketing history to take four wickets in four consecutive balls in international cricket (vs. South Africa March 2007).
- The first and, to date, only bowler in cricketing history to take three hat-tricks in One Day International cricket, taking his third in August 2011.
- Lasith Malinga and Angelo Mathews hold the highest run partnership for the 9th wicket in an ODI: 132 runs, against Australia in Melbourne in 2010. Malinga scored 56 Runs from 48 balls including six fours and two sixes; Mathews scored 77 runs off 84 deliveries including eight fours and one six.
- He is the only bowler with two World Cup hat tricks, against South Africa in the 2007 Cricket World Cup and the other against Kenya in the 2011 Cricket World Cup.
- Malinga also holds the record for most wickets taken in a single IPL season, 28 in the 2011 Indian Premier League 4.
- Malinga holds the record for the most expensive bowling in an ODI innings (bowling five overs or longer), as measured by economy rate. Malinga conceded 96 runs from 7.4 overs at an economy rate of 12.52 against India in Hobart on 28 February 2012.
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