List of international cricket five-wicket hauls at Brabourne Stadium
Bowlers have taken thirteen five-wicket hauls in Tests and one fifer in One Day International matches played at Brabourne.
Brabourne Stadium is a cricket ground in Mumbai, India. It is the home of the Cricket Club of India and has played host to Ranji Trophy matches (including seventeen finals) and Indian Premier League matches, as well as being a Test, One Day International (ODI) and Twenty20 International (T20I) venue. It has a capacity of 20,000 spectators. The ground has hosted 18 Test matches, the first in 1948 when India played the West Indies. It has also staged nine ODI matches, the first of which was in 1989 when Australia lost to Pakistan by 66 runs. One T20I has been played at the ground when India beat Australia by seven wickets in 2007. This was also the first T20I to be played in India. Of the nine ODIs played at the stadium, five matches (including the final) were staged during the ICC Champions Trophy in 2006.
In cricket, a five-wicket haul (also known as a "five-for" or "fifer") refers to a bowler Taking Five or more wickets in a single innings. This is regarded as a notable achievement. The first bowler to take a five-wicket haul in a Test match at Brabourne Stadium was Prior Jones in 1949, for the West Indies against India. The first Indian to take a five-wicket haul in a Test at the Brabourne was Vinoo Mankad, who did so in a game against Pakistan in 1952. B. S. Chandrasekhar is the only bowler to have taken two five-wicket hauls in Test matches at the ground, doing so against the West Indies in 1966 and against England in 1973. Chandrasekhar is also the only bowler to have taken ten wickets in a match at Brabourne, he took eleven wickets against the West Indies in 1966. Twelve bowlers have taken thirteen five-wicket hauls at the ground. Sri Lankan bowler Farveez Maharoof's five wicket haul against the West Indies in 2006, is the only one achieved during an ODI. Khaleel Ahmed's three wickets for thirteen runs in an ODI versus West Indies in 2018 are the best figures by an Indian at the ground in the fifty over format. The best bowling figures in the only T20I staged at the ground featuring India and Australia in 2007 are Irfan Pathan's two wickets for thirty-four runs.
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Zaheer Khan is one of the twelve bowlers who have taken a five-wicket haul at the Brabourne Stadium in Test matches.
Symbol
Meaning
†
The bowler was man of the match
‡
10 or more wickets taken in the match
§
One of two five-wicket hauls by the bowler in the match
Date
Day the Test started or ODI was held
Inn
Innings in which five-wicket haul was taken
Overs
Number of overs bowled
Runs
Number of runs conceded
Wkts
Number of wickets taken
Econ
Runs conceded per over
Batsmen
Batsmen whose wickets were taken
Result
Result of the match
Tests
Five-wicket hauls in Test matches at Brabourne Stadium
No.
Bowler
Date
Team
Opposing team
Inn
Overs
Runs
Wkts
Econ
Batsmen
Result
1
4 February 1949
West Indies
India
4
41
85
5
2.07
Syed Mushtaq Ali
Vijay Hazare
Vinoo Mankad
Shute Banerjee
Hemu Adhikari
Match drawn
2
13 November 1952
India
Pakistan
3
65
72
5
1.10
Hanif Mohammad
Waqar Hasan
Abdul Kardar
Maqsood Ahmed
Wazir Mohammad
India
3
2 December 1955
India
New Zealand
4
32.4
45
5
1.37
Bert Sutcliffe
John Guy
Tony MacGibbon
Alex Moir
Jack Alabaster
India
4
1 January 1960
India
Australia
4
51
105
6
2.05
Colin McDonald
Gavin Stevens
Neil Harvey
Les Favell
Wally Grout
Richie Benaud
Match drawn
5
2 December 1960
Pakistan
India
2
51.4
129
5
2.49
Vijay Manjrekar
Polly Umrigar
Chandu Borde
Bapu Nadkarni
Ramakant Desai
Match drawn
6
12 March 1965
India
New Zealand
1
25
56
6
2.24
Graham Dowling
Bev Congdon
Barry Sinclair
Victor Pollard
John Reid
Bruce Taylor
Match drawn
7
12 March 1965
New Zealand
India
2
7.3
26
5
3.46
ML Jaisimha
Salim Durani
Chandu Borde
Hanumant Singh
S Venkataraghavan
Match drawn
8
13 December 1966 ‡
India
West Indies
2
61.5
157
7
2.53
Robin Bynoe
Rohan Kanhai
Basil Butcher
Clive Lloyd
David Holford
Jackie Hendriks
Charlie Griffith
West Indies
9
25 September 1969
India
New Zealand
4
30.5
42
6
1.36
Bob Cunis
Bev Congdon
Brian Hastings
Mark Burgess
Bruce Taylor
Hedley Howarth
India
10
4 November 1969
Australia
India
1
29
69
5
2.37
Dilip Sardesai
Farokh Engineer
Ashok Mankad
Chandu Borde
Syed Abid Ali
Australia
11
4 November 1969
India
Australia
2
45
121
5
2.46
Bill Lawry
Keith Stackpole
Ian Chappell
Graham McKenzie
John Gleeson
Australia
12
6 February 1973
India
England
2
46.1
135
5
2.92
Graham Roope
Alan Knott
Tony Greig
Jack Birkenshaw
Geoff Arnold
Match drawn
13
2 December 2009
India
Sri Lanka
4
21
72
5
3.42
Kumar Sangakkara
Mahela Jayawardene
Thilan Samaraweera
Nuwan Kulasekara
Rangana Herath
India
One Day Internationals
Five-wicket hauls in One Day Internationals at Brabourne Stadium