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First-Class Most Economical Bowling in a Match

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Balls	Runs
917	428	CS Nayudu	Holkar v Bombay	Brabourne Stadium, Bombay	1944/45
848	394	CV Grimmett	South Australia v New South Wales	Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney	1925/26
805	204	JHD Piton	Transvaal v Kimberley	Old Wanderers, Johannesburg	1890/91
766	184	H Verity	England v South Africa	Kingsmead, Durban	1938/39
720	152	RW McLeod	Victoria v New South Wales	Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne	1892/93
696	127	AL Valentine	West Indies v England	Lord's Cricket Ground, St John's Wood	1950
686	123	NBF Mann	Eastern Province v Transvaal	Ellis Park, Johannesburg	1946/47
654	111	MH Mankad	India v England	Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi	1951/52
580	106	J Briggs	A Shaw's XI v Melbourne Cricket Club's Australian XI	Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne	1886/87
575	85	A Shaw	Marylebone Cricket Club v Cambridge University	Lord's Cricket Ground, St John's Wood	1880
552	70	TG Shaw	Eastern Province v Transvaal	St George's Park, Port Elizabeth	1988/89
536	60	NBF Mann	Eastern Province v Orange Free State	St George's Park, Port Elizabeth	1950/51
460	59	W Attewell	Nottinghamshire v Kent	Mote Park, Maidstone	1888
456	55	JL Heaney	Transvaal v Griqualand West	Ellis Park, Johannesburg	1947/48
424	45	A Shaw	Marylebone Cricket Club v Oxford University	Magdalen Ground, Oxford	1875
352	39	A Shaw	Nottinghamshire v Kent	Trent Bridge, Nottingham	1879
344	36	RG Nadkarni	Bombay v Rest of India	Brabourne Stadium, Bombay	1962/63
340	35	W Attewell	North v South	Kennington Oval, Kennington	1889
324	34	Mohammad Nazir	Railways v Zone A	Niaz Stadium, Hyderabad	1985/86
296	23	SA Thwaits	Western Province v North Eastern Transvaal	Newlands, Cape Town	1950/51
264	22	RG Nadkarni	Bombay v Bengal	Brabourne Stadium, Bombay	1965/66
248	19	JC Watkins	South Africans v Western Australia	Western Australia Cricket Association Ground, Perth	1952/53
235	13	A Watson	Lancashire v Sussex	Old Trafford, Manchester	1890
228	11	RG Nadkarni	India v England	Nehru Stadium, Madras	1963/64
195	3	MB Majithia	Madhya Pradesh v Railways	Maharani Usharaje Trust Cricket Ground, Indore	1999/00
102	2	JB Mortimore	Gloucestershire v Cambridge University	Erinoid Ground, Stroud	1958
66	0	TA Lloyd	Warwickshire v Somerset	Edgbaston, Birmingham	1991

The entries are listed by decreasing runs and balls