List of international cricket five-wicket hauls at Asgiriya Stadium

Asgiriya Stadium is a sports ground at Kandy in Sri Lanka. It was the venue for international cricket between 1983 and 2007 and is the home of the Kandy Cricket Club.[1][2] The first Test match on the ground was between Sri Lanka and Australia in April 1983 and the first One Day International (ODI) took place in 1986 with Pakistan as Sri Lanka's oppponents. A total of six men's ODIs and 21 Test matches were staged at the ground, with one other Test being abandoned without a ball being bowled. Four women's ODI matches were played on the ground between 1997 and 2004.[1][2]

Bowlers have taken 28 five-wicket hauls in Test matches and two in ODIs played at Asgiriya Stadium.

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.[3] This article details the five-wicket hauls taken on the ground in official international Test and One Day International matches.[lower-alpha 1]

The first bowler to take a five-wicket haul in a Test match at Asgiriya Stadium was Australian bowler Bruce Yardley in the grounds first Test in 1983. Yardley took five wickets for the cost of 88 runs (5/88) against Sri Lanka; his team mate Tom Hogan took a second five-wicket haul later in the same match. Sri Lanka's Muttiah Muralitharan took a total of nine five-wicket hauls in Test matches on the ground, including the best innings figures of 9/51, taken in 2002 against Zimbabwe. Muralitharan also took ten wickets in a match five times on the ground.

Two bowlers took five-wicket hauls in ODI matches on the ground, both in women's matches. Cheraldine Oudolf of the Netherlands was the first to do so in the ground's first women's ODI in 1997, taking 5/20 against Sri Lanka. Indian bowler Mamatha Maben took the ground's best figures in an ODI in the east women's ODI staged in the ground, taking 6/10 in 2004.

Key
Symbol Meaning
Date Day the Test started or ODI was held
Inn Innings in which five-wicket haul was taken
O Number of overs bowled
R Number of runs conceded
W Number of wickets taken
Result Result of the match

Test match five-wicket hauls

A total of 28 five-wicket hauls were taken in Test matches on the ground, with nine of these taken by Sri Lankan spin bowler Muttiah Muralitharan.

Five-wicket hauls in Men's Test matches at Asgiriya Stadium
No. Bowler Date Team Opposing Team Inn O R W Result
1Bruce Yardley[upper-alpha 1]22 April 1983 Australia Sri Lanka225885Australia won[6]
2Tom Hogan[upper-alpha 1]22 April 1983 Australia Sri Lanka325.2665Australia won[6]
3Vinothen John[upper-alpha 2]9 March 1984 Sri Lanka New Zealand129.1865New Zealand won[7]
4Stephen Boock[upper-alpha 2]9 March 1984 New Zealand Sri Lanka49.3285New Zealand won[7]
5Saliya Ahangama14 September 1985 Sri Lanka India124525India won[8]
6Tauseef Ahmed23 February 1986 Pakistan Sri Lanka315456Pakistan won[9]
7Waqar Younis[upper-alpha 3]26 August 1994 Pakistan Sri Lanka114346Pakistan won[10]
8Waqar Younis[upper-alpha 3]26 August 1994 Pakistan Sri Lanka318855Pakistan won[10]
9Muttiah Muralitharan[upper-alpha 4]7 January 1998 Sri Lanka Zimbabwe229235Sri Lanka won[11]
10Muttiah Muralitharan[upper-alpha 4]7 January 1998 Sri Lanka Zimbabwe342.5947Sri Lanka won[11]
11Shane Warne9 September 1999 Australia Sri Lanka216525Sri Lanka won[12]
12Venkatesh Prasad22 August 2001 India Sri Lanka321725India won[13]
13Muttiah Muralitharan21 November 2001 Sri Lanka West Indies435.5816Sri Lanka won[14]
14Muttiah Muralitharan[upper-alpha 5]4 January 2002 Sri Lanka Zimbabwe140519Sri Lanka won[16]
15Muttiah Muralitharan3 May 2003 Sri Lanka New Zealand339495Drawn[17]
16Ashley Giles10 December 2003 England Sri Lanka137.41165Drawn[18]
17Shane Warne[upper-alpha 6]16 March 2004 Australia Sri Lanka220.1655Australia won[19]
18Muttiah Muralitharan[upper-alpha 6]16 March 2004 Sri Lanka Australia350.31735Australia won[19]
19Shane Warne[upper-alpha 6]16 March 2004 Australia Sri Lanka421.1905Australia won[19]
20Daren Powell[upper-alpha 7]22 July 2005 West Indies Sri Lanka113.1255Sri Lanka won[21]
21Chaminda Vaas[upper-alpha 7]22 July 2005 Sri Lanka West Indies215226Sri Lanka won[21]
22Muttiah Muralitharan[upper-alpha 7]22 July 2005 Sri Lanka West Indies416.2468Sri Lanka won[21]
23Mohammad Asif[upper-alpha 8]3 April 2006 Pakistan Sri Lanka123446Pakistan won[22]
24Muttiah Muralitharan[upper-alpha 8]3 April 2006 Sri Lanka Pakistan216.4395Pakistan won[22]
25Mohammad Asif[upper-alpha 8]3 April 2006 Pakistan Sri Lanka312275Pakistan won[22]
26Muttiah Muralitharan[upper-alpha 9]11 July 2007 Sri Lanka Bangladesh114.5286Sri Lanka won[23]
27Muttiah Muralitharan[upper-alpha 9]11 July 2007 Sri Lanka Bangladesh321546Sri Lanka won[23]
28Muttiah Muralitharan1 December 2007 Sri Lanka England235556Sri Lanka won[24]

One Day International five-wicket hauls

Two five-wicket hauls were taken on the ground in One Day International matches, both times in women's ODIs.

Five-wicket hauls in Women's One Day International matches at Asgiriya Stadium
No. Bowler Date Team Opposing Team Inn O R W Result
1Cheraldine Oudolf[upper-alpha 10]30 November 1997 Netherlands Sri Lanka18205 Netherlands won[26]
2Mamatha Maben[upper-alpha 11]25 April 2004[lower-alpha 2] India Sri Lanka16.2106 India won[28]

Notes
  1. No Twenty20 International matches were played on the ground.
  2. This match was part of the 2004 Women's Asia Cup competition.
  1. Yardley and Hogan took their five-wicket hauls in the same match, Yardley in the game's second innings and Hogan in the third after Sri Lanka were asked to follow on. The match was Hogan's Test match debut and Yardley's final Test. Hogan's five-wicket haul was the only one of his Test match career.[4][5]
  2. John and Boock took their five-wicket hauls in the same match.
  3. Waqar took five-wicket hauls in both Sri Lankan innings in this match,
  4. Muralitharan took two five-wicket hauls in this match. The first was taken in the second innings of the match and the second in the match's third innings after Zimbabwe had been asked to follow on.
  5. Muralitharan innings bowling figures of 9/51 are the best on the ground and the best of his career. His match figures of 13/115 are also the best on the ground.[2][15]
  6. Warne and Muralitharan both took five-wicket hauls in the same match, with Warne taking two during the match.
  7. Powell, Vaas and Muralitharan all took five-wicket hauls during the same match. Powell's was the only give-wicket haul of his Test match career.[20]
  8. Mohammad Asif and Muralitharan took their five-wicket hauls in the same match, with Mohammad Asif taking two during the match.
  9. Muralitharan took two five-wicket hauls in this match.
  10. This was the only time Oudolf took a five-wicket haul in international cricket.[25]
  11. This was the only time Maben took a five-wicket haul in international cricket.[27]

References
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  25. Cheraldine Oudolf, CricInfo. Retrieved 2020-11-23.
  26. 3rd ODI, Kandy, Nov 30 1997, Netherlands Women tour of Sri Lanka, CricInfo. Retrieved 2020-11-22.
  27. Mamatha Maben, CricInfo. Retrieved 2020-11-23.
  28. 4th ODI, Kandy, Apr 25 2004, Women's Asia Cup, CricInfo. Retrieved 2020-11-22.
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