List of World Series Cricket international five-wicket hauls


World Series Cricket (WSC) was a break away professional cricket competition staged between 1977 and 1979.[1]

Formed by Australian business man Kerry Packer following the refusal of the Australian Cricket Board (ACB) to accept the bid of Packer's Channel Nine to gain exclusive television rights to Australia's Test matches, World Series Cricket involved matches between WSC Australia XI, WSC World XI and WSC West Indies. The teams included leading Australian, English, Pakistani, South African and West Indian players, most notably England captain Tony Greig, West Indies captain Clive Lloyd, Australian captain Greg Chappell and former Australian captain Ian Chappell.

The teams played five day "Supertests" and one day "International Cup" matches in Australia and the West Indies. The first WSC game, a Supertest between the Australians and the West Indians, began at VFL Park on 2 December 1977.

Sixteen Supertest five wicket hauls were by players from all three of the WSC teams. The first of these was by Greg Chappell on 1 January 1978. Dennis Lillee's seven wickets for twenty three runs (7/23) was the best bowling figures in World Series Cricket and Lillee also holds the record for most Supertest five wicket hauls with four.

Eight International Cup five wicket hauls were taken during World Series Cricket, with Andy Roberts claiming the first on 3 February 1978. No player took more than one five wicket haul and WSC World XI player Garth Le Roux returned the best figures with five wickets for six runs, against WSC Australia XI.

Key
  • Date – Date the fifth wicket was taken.
  • Inn – The innings of the match in which the five-wicket haul was taken.
  • Overs – Number of overs bowled in that innings.
  • * - Overs consisting of eight deliveries.
  • Runs – Runs conceded.
  • Wkts – Number of wickets taken.
  • Batsmen – The batsmen whose wickets were taken in the five-wicket haul.
  • Result – The result for the player's team in that match.

Supertest five wicket hauls
No.PlayerDateForAgainstInnVenueOversWktsRunsBatsmenResult
1Greg Chappell1 January 1978 Australia West Indies2Football Park, Adelaide12*520 Won[2]
2Max Walker16 January 1978 Australia World XI2RAS Showground, Sydney28.3*788 Lost[3]
3Andy Roberts17 January 1978 World XI Australia3RAS Showground, Sydney12*669align=left Won[3]
4Ray Bright28 January 1978 Australia World XI1Gloucester Park, Perth31.3*5149 Lost[4]
5Joel Garner12 February 1978 World XI Australia3VFL Park, Melbourne14.7*552 Lost[5]
6Dennis Lillee13 February 1978 Australia World XI4VFL Park, Melbourne15*582 Won[5]
7Max Walker13 February 1978 Australia World XI4VFL Park, Melbourne14*562 Won[5]
8Garth Le Roux9 December 1978 World XI Australia2VFL Park, Melbourne25.5539 Won[6]
9Ray Bright21 January 1979 Australia West Indies1SCG, Sydney23652 Won[7]
10Colin Croft23 January 1979 West Indies Australia2SCG, Sydney26565 Lost[7]
11Dennis Lillee24 January 1979 Australia West Indies3SCG, Sydney14723 Won[7]
12Garth Le Roux2 February 1979 World XI Australia1SCG, Sydney18.4557 Won[8]
13Dennis Lillee3 February 1979 Australia World XI2SCG, Sydney18.5551 Lost[8]
14Michael Holding16 March 1979 West Indies Australia1Queen's Park Oval, Port of Spain21548 Lost[9]
15Jeff Thomson18 March 1979 Australia West Indies2Queen's Park Oval, Port of Spain20578 Won[9]
16Dennis Lillee9 April 1979 Australia West Indies2Antigua Recreation Ground, St John's33.26125 Won[10]

International Cup five wicket hauls
No.PlayerDateForAgainstInnVenueOversWktsRunsBatsmenResult
1Andy Roberts3 February 1978 West Indies World XI2RAS Showground, Sydney8*517 Won[11]
2Wayne Daniel5 February 1978 West Indies Australia2RAS Showground, Sydney5.7*529 Won[12]
3Greg Chappell28 November 1978 Australia West Indies1Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney9.3519 Won[13]
4Len Pascoe18 December 1978 Australia World XI2VFL Park, Melbourne10530 Won[14]
5Garth Le Roux1 January 1979 World XI Australia1Brisbane Cricket Ground, Brisbane6.156 Won[15]
6Max Walker9 January 1979 Australia West Indies2VFL Park, Melbourne10523 Won[16]
7Jeff Thomson21 February 1979 Australia West Indies1Sabina Park, Kingston7.3531 Won[17]
8Colin Croft4 April 1979 West Indies Australia1Windsor Park, Roseau9521 Won[18]

See also

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