List of international cricket five-wicket hauls by Imran Khan

Imran Khan, a retired Pakistani cricketer and former Prime Minister of Pakistan, took 24 five-wicket hauls during his career in international cricket. In cricket, a five-wicket haul (also known as a "five–for" or "fifer")[1] refers to a bowler taking five or more wickets in a single innings. This is regarded as a notable achievement,[2] and as of 2014 fewer than 45 bowlers have taken more than 15 five-wicket hauls at international level in their cricketing careers.[3][4][5] A right-arm fast bowler who represented his country between 1971 and 1992, Khan was described by the BBC as "one of the finest fast bowlers cricket has ever seen",[6] while ESPNcricinfo declared him as "the greatest cricketer to emerge from Pakistan, and arguably the world's second-best allrounder after Garry Sobers".[7][8][9] In 1983 he was named as one of the five Cricketers of the Year by the Wisden Cricketers' Almanack,[10] and was inducted into the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame in January 2009.[11][12]

Khan made his Test debut in 1971 against England at Edgbaston Cricket Ground.[13] His first Test five-wicket haul came in 1977 against Australia in a match at Melbourne Cricket Ground which Pakistan lost.[14] In the same year, he took his first pair of five-wicket hauls in a single match against Australia at the Sydney Cricket Ground.[15] By the end of his career, he had claimed five-wickets hauls in both innings of a match on three occasions.[15][16][17] His career-best figures for an innings were 8 wickets for 58 runs against Sri Lanka at Gaddafi Stadium, in March 1982.[16] He took ten or more wickets in a match on six occasions.[18]

Having made his One Day International (ODI) debut in August 1974[19] against England at Trent Bridge, Nottingham,[20] Khan's solitary ODI five-wicket haul came in 1985 against India in a match at the Sharjah Cricket Association Stadium which Pakistan lost.[21] He took 6 wickets for 14 runs in the match, which was his career-best bowling in ODI cricket.[21] By the time he retired from international cricket in 1992 after nearly 21 years,[19] Khan had taken 23 five-wicket hauls in Test cricket[4] and one in ODIs.[21] As of 2017, he is fifteenth overall among all-time combined five-wicket haul takers, a position which he shares with Sydney Barnes, Kapil Dev and Dennis Lillee.[note 1][3]

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  3. ^ a b "Records – Combined Test, ODI and T20I records – Bowling records – Most five-wickets-in-an-innings in a career". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 30 May 2012.
  4. ^ a b "Records – Test matches – Bowling records – Most five-wickets-in-an-innings in a career". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 5 April 2012.
  5. ^ "One-Day Internationals: Bowling Records – Most five-wickets-in-an-innings in a career". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 30 September 2011.
  6. ^ "BBC NEWS – Millennium – Imran Khan". BBC. Retrieved 25 April 2012.
  7. ^ "Imran Khan". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 26 April 2012.
  8. ^ "Fast bowlers – Strike fear with three – Imran Khan". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 25 April 2012.
  9. ^ Abhijit Sen Gupta (18 July 2002). "Fast bowlers – Who's the fastest?". The Hindu. Archived from the original on 13 February 2006. Retrieved 25 April 2012.
  10. ^ "Wisden – Cricketer of the Year – 1983 – Imran Khan". Wisden. ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 10 February 2022.
  11. ^ "ICC Cricket Hall of Fame". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 10 August 2012.
  12. ^ "Hanif and Javed inducted into ICC Cricket Hall of Fame". Dawn. Pakistan. 10 January 2009. Retrieved 10 August 2012.
  13. ^ "Pakistan in England Test Series – 1st Test". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 5 April 2012.
  14. ^ "Pakistan in Australia Test Series – 2nd Test". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 5 April 2012.
  15. ^ a b "Pakistan in Australia Test Series – 3rd Test". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 5 April 2012.
  16. ^ a b "Sri Lanka in Pakistan Test Series – 3rd Test". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 5 April 2012.
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  18. ^ "Test Matches: Bowling Records – Most ten-wickets-in-a-match in a career". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 25 October 2009.
  19. ^ a b "Imran Khan". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 5 April 2012.
  20. ^ "Prudential Trophy – 1st ODI". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 5 April 2012.
  21. ^ a b c "India v Pakistan: Rothmans Four-Nations Cup – 1st match". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 5 April 2012.
  22. ^ "Cricket Records – Records – Pakistan – Combined Test, ODI and T20I – Most five-wickets-in-an-innings". ESPNcricinfo. Archived from the original on 12 August 2014. Retrieved 21 October 2012.


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