MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - FEBRUARY 17: Adam Zampa of Australia celebrates the wicket of Dilshan Munaweera of Sri Lanka during the first International Twenty20 match between Australia and Sri Lanka at Melbourne Cricket Ground on February 17, 2017 in Melbourne, Australia. (Photo by Michael Dodge/Getty Images)
The T20 World Cup brings out the best bowlers in the world, and there has been some scintillating performances with the ball.
With only 20 overs in an innings, bowlers get a maximum of four overs so every ball is crucial to getting the opposition batsmen out and ensuring a victory.
There have been some very impressive bowling outings over the years, even in the most recent 2021 World Cup, held in the United Arab Emirates, so check out below who has delivered on the biggest stage in the world.
Malik delivered a quality display at the 2014 World Cup, delivering five wickets against South Africa in front of a wild South African crowd.
To deliver five wickets in front of the host nation's crowd is impressive.
While Malik's display with the ball wasn't enough to give the Dutch what would have been an unbelievable upset victory, an economy of just 4.75 shows how dangerous he was that day as he ran through the Proteas batting line-up.
Despite the display, which included wickets of Hashim Amla, Albie Morkel and David Miller, the Netherlands ultimately chasing down the Proteas' 9 for 145.
With the exact same stat line as Malik's outing, Australian spin bowler Adam Zampa delivered a masterful performance in what was a must-win for the Aussies against the Tigers in Dubai.
Without the win, Australia wouldn't have qualified for the semi-finals of the tournament they ultimately went on to win - their first in the shortest form of the game.
Zampa made light work of the Bangladesh batting attack, contributing half the wickets to bowl out Bangladesh for 73 runs in 15 overs, leading to a comfortable Australian victory.
An economy of 4.75 runs per overs bowled was a sublime return for the silky spin bowler and is amongst the best bowling displays in T20 World Cup history.
The Pakistani medium pace bowler put on a clinic against New Zealand at the 2009 T20 World Cup, taking five wickets for only six runs in his three overs.
Gul was a master of defeating the opposing batsman, and made light work of the opponents at The Oval in London.
With an economy of two runs per overs bowled, the dangerous Kiwi batting line-up - led by Brendon McCullum - simply couldn't get him away.
Gul would go on to take a tournament-high 13 wickets and lead Pakistan to the T20 World Cup crown in what was a glowing month for the nation.
The legendary Sri Lankan spin bowler was at his absolute best against New Zealand, taking more wickets than runs conceded, a feat that has only been done three times in T20 World Cup history.
With five wickets taken and only three runs conceded from 21 deliveries, it's easy to see why he is regarded as one of the greatest spin bowlers of all time when stat lines like this seemed to simply follow him around.
The veteran, who had an exceptional career for Sri Lanka across all three formats, had an exceptional 2014 tournament, taking wickets like they were going out of fashion.
Sri Lanka would go on to win the world cup and Herath was a big part of their success, also coming away with 1 for 23 from four overs in the Mirpur-held final.
Mendis was a masterful spin bowler, often termed the "mystery spinner" due to his different bowling action techniques that would throw off the batsmen.
The Sri Lankan worked his magic no better than against Zimbabwe at the 2012 T20 World Cup, taking a T20 World Cup record six wickets en route to a comfortable 82 run victory.
No other bowler has taken more wickets than Mendis at the World Cup and he thoroughly deserves his spot at the top of the list, and would be hard to move him from the top.
The mystery spinner would take a tournament-high 15 wickets and lead Sri Lanka into the final where they would be defeated by the West Indies during what was something of a golden period for Sri Lankan cricket.