List of international cricket five-wicket hauls at M. A. Chidambaram Stadium explained

M. A. Chidambaram Stadium (MAC), also known as the Chepauk Stadium or simply Chepauk due its location in the city's locality of Chepauk,^[1] is a sports ground in Chennai, India that has hosted international cricket matches along with provincial games.^[2] Named after M. A. Chidambaram, former President of Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI),^[3] the venue was formerly known as the Madras Cricket Club ground. It has a capacity of 38,000 spectators for international matches.^[2] It is the home ground of the Tamil Nadu cricket team and the Indian Premier League team Chennai Super Kings.^{[2] [4]} The first Test at this venue took place in 1934, between India and England.^[2] As of February 2021, it has hosted a further 33 Test matches.^[5] Chepauk has also staged 22 One Day International (ODI) matches,^[6] the first of which was in 1987 when Australia defeated India in a group-match during the 1987 World Cup.^[7]

In cricket, a five-wicket haul (also known as a "five-for" or "fifer")^{[8] [9]} refers to a bowler taking five or more wickets in a single innings. This is regarded as a notable achievement.^[10] The first bowler to take a five-wicket haul in a Test match at Chepauk was Amar Singh for India against England in 1934; he finished the innings with bowling figures of 7 wickets for 86 runs.^[11] Australia's Ashley Mallett became the first to take two five-wicket hauls in the same match at Chepauk, when he took 5 for 91 and 5 for 53 in the second and fourth innings of the fifth Test of Australia's 1969–70 tour of India.^[11] Narendra Hirwani is the most recent cricketer and the first Indian to take two five-wicket hauls on debut. He took 8 for 61 and 8 for 75 against the West Indies during the fourth Test of the 1987–88 series between the teams, which was held at this ground, and finished the match with bowling figures of 16 for 136.^[12] These are also the best match-figures by any bowler on Test debut.^[13] The best figures in Test cricket at Chepauk are 8 for 55, taken by India's Vinoo Mankad against England in 1952.^[11] Axar Patel took the most recent five-wicket haul at Chepauk, with figures of 5 for 60 against England in their 2020–21 tour of India.^[11] As of February 2021, 32 bowlers have taken 51 Test match five-wicket hauls at this ground.^[11]

As of November 2017, two bowlers have taken five-wicket hauls during ODIs at Chepauk.^[14] The first player to do so was Aaqib Javed of Pakistan, who achieved the feat when he took 5 wickets for 61 runs against India during the 1997 Pepsi Independence Cup.^[15] The other five-wicket haul was made by West Indies' Ravi Rampaul, which is also the best figures in ODI cricket at this ground. He took 5 for 51 against India during the 2011 World Cup.^[11] As of November 2017, a match between India and New Zealand is the only Twenty20 International (T20I) to be held at the ground,^[2] which New Zealand won by one run.^{[2] [16]} The best bowling figures in T20I cricket at Chepauk are Irfan Pathan's 3 wickets for 31 runs.^[17]

Key

Symbol	Meaning
	The bowler was player 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
Drawn	The match was drawn.
Tied	The match was tied.

Tests

Five-wicket hauls in Test matches at M. A. Chidambaram Stadium

No.	Bowler	Date	Team	Opposing team	Inn	Overs	Runs	Wkts	Econ	Batsmen	Result
1										align=left	Cyril Walters James Langridge Douglas Jardine Charlie Barnett Stan Nichols Leslie Townsend Harry Elliott	England won^[18]
2										align=left	Dilawar Hussain C. K. Nayudu Vijay Merchant Yadavindra Singh Nazir Ali C. S. Nayudu Amar Singh	England won
3										align=left	Dilawar Hussain Amar Singh C. K. Nayudu Yadavindra Singh Nazir Ali	England won
4										align=left	Allan Rae Clyde Walcott Robert Christiani John Goddard Gerry Gomez Jimmy Cameron John Trim	West Indies won^[19]
5										align=left	Tom Graveney Jack Robertson Allan Watkins Cyril Poole Donald Carr Malcolm Hilton Brian Statham Fred Ridgway	India won^[20]
6	§									align=left	Chetan Chauhan Ajit Wadekar Gundappa Viswanath Farokh Engineer Eknath Solkar	Australia won^[21]
7										align=left	Bill Lawry Doug Walters Ian Redpath Paul Sheahan Brian Taber Laurie Mayne	Australia won
8	§									align=left	Gundappa Viswanath Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi Eknath Solkar Srinivasaraghavan Venkataraghavan E. A. S. Prasanna	Australia won
9										align=left	Dennis Amiss Tony Greig Tony Lewis Chris Old Norman Gifford Pat Pocock	India won^[22]
10	§									align=left	Anshuman Gaekwad Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi Ashok Mankad Madan Lal Karsan Ghavri E. A. S. Prasanna B. S. Chandrasekhar	India won^[23]
11										align=left	Viv Richards Clive Lloyd Deryck Murray Bernard Julien Keith Boyce	India won
12	§									align=left	Gundappa Viswanath Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi Madan Lal Bishan Singh Bedi B. S. Chandrasekhar	India won
13										align=left	Sunil Gavaskar Anshuman Gaekwad Mohinder Amarnath Ashok Mankad Srinivasaraghavan Venkataraghavan	India won^[24]
14										align=left	Mark Burgess Geoff Howarth Warren Lees Richard Hadlee Lance Cairns	India won
15										align=left	Gundappa Viswanath Ashok Mankad Dilip Vengsarkar Syed Kirmani Bishan Singh Bedi	England won^[25]
16										align=left	Dennis Amiss John Lever Mike Brearley Derek Randall Derek Underwood	England won
17										align=left	Graeme Wood Kim Hughes Graham Yallop Dav Whatmore Rodney Hogg Alan Hurst	Drawn^[26]
18										align=left	Chetan Chauhan Gundappa Viswanath Dilip Vengsarkar Yashpal Sharma Kapil Dev Srinivasaraghavan Venkataraghavan Dilip Doshi	Drawn
19										align=left	Sunil Gavaskar Dilip Vengsarkar Syed Kirmani Kapil Dev Dilip Doshi	India won^[27]
20										align=left	Mudassar Nazar Sadiq Mohammad Zaheer Abbas Asif Iqbal Imran Khan Wasim Bari Sikander Bakht	India won
21										align=left	Roy Dias Duleep Mendis Arjuna Ranatunga Ranjan Madugalle Anura Ranasinghe	Drawn^[28]
22										align=left	Bandula Warnapura Ravi Ratnayeke Anura Ranasinghe Mahes Goonatilleke Ajit de Silva	Drawn
23										align=left	Dilip Vengsarkar Arun Lal Kapil Dev Gundappa Viswanath Syed Kirmani	Drawn
24										align=left	Anshuman Gaekwad Dilip Vengsarkar Shivlal Yadav Roger Binny Kapil Dev	Drawn^[29]
25	§									align=left	Sunil Gavaskar Dilip Vengsarkar Mohinder Amarnath Ravi Shastri Shivlal Yadav Laxman Sivaramakrishnan	England won^[30]
26	§									align=left	Sunil Gavaskar Krishnamachari Srikkanth Dilip Vengsarkar Mohinder Amarnath Laxman Sivaramakrishnan	England won
27	§									align=left	Sunil Gavaskar Krishnamachari Srikkanth Ravi Shastri Chandrakant Pandit Kapil Dev	Tied^[31]
28	§									align=left	Krishnamachari Srikkanth Mohinder Amarnath Chandrakant Pandit Kapil Dev Maninder Singh	Tied
29										align=left	Sunil Gavaskar Mohammad Azharuddin Chetan Sharma Kiran More Shivlal Yadav	Tied
30										align=left	Shoaib Mohammad Rameez Raja Saleem Malik Ijaz Ahmed Saleem Yousuf	Drawn^[32]
31	§									align=left	Richie Richardson Gus Logie Carl Hooper Viv Richards Clyde Butts Jeff Dujon Winston Davis Courtney Walsh	India won
32	§									align=left	Phil Simmons Desmond Haynes Viv Richards Carl Hooper Jeff Dujon Gus Logie Clyde Butts Winston Davis	India won
33										align=left	Robin Smith Neil Fairbrother Richard Blakey Chris Lewis Ian Salisbury Paul Jarvis	India won^[33]
34										align=left	Ijaz Ahmed Inzamam-ul-Haq Moin Khan Wasim Akram Saqlain Mushtaq Nadeem Khan	Pakistan won
35	§									align=left	Rahul Dravid Sachin Tendulkar Mohammad Azharuddin Nayan Mongia Anil Kumble	Pakistan won
36										align=left	Saeed Anwar Shahid Afridi Moin Khan Wasim Akram Saqlain Mushtaq Waqar Younis	Pakistan won
37	§									align=left	Sachin Tendulkar Mohammad Azharuddin Sourav Ganguly Sunil Joshi Javagal Srinath	Pakistan won
38	§									align=left	Matthew Hayden Justin Langer Ricky Ponting Adam Gilchrist Shane Warne Jason Gillespie Colin Miller	India won^[34]
39	§									align=left	Michael Slater Adam Gilchrist Mark Waugh Steve Waugh Ricky Ponting Shane Warne Jason Gillespie Colin Miller	India won
40										align=left	Chris Gayle Wavell Hinds Shivnarine Chanderpaul Ryan Hinds Mervyn Dillon	India won^[35]
41	§									align=left	Damien Martyn Darren Lehmann Michael Clarke Adam Gilchrist Shane Warne Jason Gillespie Michael Kasprowicz	Drawn^[36]
42										align=left	Yuvraj Singh Virender Sehwag Irfan Pathan Parthiv Patel Anil Kumble Harbhajan Singh	Drawn
43	§									align=left	Justin Langer Matthew Hayden Adam Gilchrist Darren Lehmann Michael Clarke Shane Warne Michael Kasprowicz	Drawn
44										align=left	Neil McKenzie Jacques Kallis Morné Morkel Paul Harris Dale Steyn	Drawn^[37]
45	§									align=left	Ed Cowan David Warner Phillip Hughes Shane Watson Matthew Wade Moisés Henriques Nathan Lyon	India won^[38]
46										align=left	Murali Vijay Virender Sehwag Cheteshwar Pujara Mahendra Singh Dhoni Ravindra Jadeja	India won
47	§									align=left	Ed Cowan Shane Watson Michael Clarke James Pattinson Mitchell Starc	India won
48										align=left	Alastair Cook Keaton Jennings Joe Root Moeen Ali Ben Stokes Stuart Broad Jake Ball	India won^[39]
49										align=left	Rory Burns Dom Sibley Ben Stokes Dom Bess Jofra Archer James Anderson	England won^[40]
50										align=left	Dom Sibley Dan Lawrence Ben Stokes Olly Stone Stuart Broad	India won^[41]
51										align=left	Dom Sibley Jack Leach Ollie Pope Joe Root Olly Stone	India won

One Day Internationals

Five-wicket hauls in One Day International matches at M. A. Chidambaram Stadium

No.	Bowler	Date	Team	Opposing team	Inn	Overs	Runs	Wkts	Econ	Batsmen	Result
1										align=left	Sachin Tendulkar Sourav Ganguly Rahul Dravid Sunil Joshi Abey Kuruvilla	Pakistan won
2										align=left	Gautam Gambhir Sachin Tendulkar Virat Kohli Yusuf Pathan Zaheer Khan	India won^[42]

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