List of international cricket five-wicket hauls at McLean Park


is a sports ground in Napier, New Zealand which has hosted international rugby union and cricket matches as well as provincial sports matches. It is one of the home grounds of the Central Districts cricket team and the Hawke's Bay Rugby Union. It has hosted international cricket matches since 1979, the first Test match at the ground taking place between New Zealand and Pakistan in February of that year. It was first used for One Day International cricket during the 1982 Women's Cricket World Cup and the first Twenty20 International match played on the ground took place in 2017. The ground has a capacity of 10,500 spectators for international matches.
In cricket, a five-wicket haul 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 McLean Park was Imran Khan in the ground's inaugural Test; he finished with bowling figures of 5 wickets for 106 runs. Sri Lanka's Chaminda Vaas became the first cricketer to take two five-wicket hauls at McLean Park, when he took 5 for 47 and 5 for 43 in the first Test of Sri Lanka's 1994–95 tour of New Zealand. The best figures in Test cricket at McLean Park are 7 for 47, taken by England's Ryan Sidebottom against New Zealand in March 2008.
As of March 2019, five bowlers have taken five-wicket hauls during ODIs at McLean Park. Zimbabwe's fast-medium pace bowler Charlie Lock was the first to achieve the feat when he took 5 wickets for 44 runs against New Zealand for the touring Zimbabweans in 1995–96. The best figures in ODI cricket are 5 for 30, secured by Sri Lanka's spin bowler Muttiah Muralitharan against New Zealand in March 1995.

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Test match five-wicket hauls

A total of 14 five-wicket hauls have been achieved in Test matches on the ground.
No.BowlerDateTeamOpposing TeamInnORWResult
116 02 19792331066Drawn
29 02 1990138985Drawn
311 03 19952475Sri Lanka won
411 03 19954435Sri Lanka won
511 03 1995436645Sri Lanka won
604 04 20053805Drawn
722 03 20081555England won
822 03 20082477England won
922 03 20084461266England won
1019 12 2008126756Drawn
1119 12 20082877Drawn
1219 12 20083461105Drawn
1311 12 20092531687Drawn
1426 1 20123266New Zealand won

One Day International five-wicket hauls

Five One Day International matches have seen five-wicket hauls taken on the ground.
No.BowlerDateTeamOpposing TeamInnORWResult
13 2 19962445Zimbabwe won
212 2 19981425New Zealand won
331 1 20012305Sri Lanka won
429 2 20121385South Africa won
520 2 20131345England won