# List of international cricket five-wicket hauls by Dale Steyn

Dale Steyn, a South African cricketer, has taken 29 five-wicket hauls in international cricket. 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, and as of October 2024, only 54 bowlers have taken 15 or more five-wicket hauls at international level in their cricketing careers. A right-arm fast bowler, Steyn reached 300 Test wickets in fewer matches than any other South African bowler. He was named the ICC's Test Player of the Year in 2008, and the Wisden Cricketers' Almanack named him one of their cricketers of the year in 2013.
Steyn made his Test debut in 2004 against England at the St George's Oval, Port Elizabeth. His first Test five-wicket haul came in 2006, against New Zealand at the SuperSport Park, Centurion. In November 2007 against the same team at the Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg, he took a five-wicket haul in both innings of a Test match for the first time. He has repeated this feat twice more: against Australia at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in 2008, and Pakistan at the Wanderers Stadium in 2013. Steyn's career-best figures for an innings are 7 wickets for 51 runs against India at the Vidarbha Cricket Association Stadium, Nagpur, in February 2010. He has taken ten or more wickets in a match on five occasions. As of 2015, he has taken the most number five-wicket hauls for South Africa.
Steyn made his One Day International (ODI) debut for the African XI in the first match of the 2005 Afro-Asia Cup, against the Asian XI at the SuperSport Park, Centurion. His first ODI five-wicket haul came during the 2011 Cricket World Cup, against India, a match which South Africa won at the Vidarbha Cricket Association Stadium. His career-best bowling in ODI cricket is 6 wickets for 39 runs against Pakistan at the St George's Park, Port Elizabeth, in November 2013.
Making his first Twenty20 International (T20I) appearance in 2006, Steyn has yet to take a five-wicket haul in the format. His best performance in T20I is 4 wickets for 9 runs, against the West Indies at the St George's Oval, in December 2007. As of 2015, he is joint eighth—with Harbhajan Singh—overall among all-time combined five-wicket haul takers.

## Key

| Symbol | Meaning |
| Date | Day the Test started or ODI held |
| Inn | The innings of the match in which the five-wicket haul was taken |
| Overs | Number of overs bowled in that innings |
| Runs | Runs conceded |
| Wkts | Number of wickets taken |
| Econ | Runs conceded per over |
| Batsmen | The batsmen whose wickets were taken in the five-wicket haul |
| Result | Result for the South Africa team |
| * | One of two five-wicket hauls by Steyn in a match |
| † | 10 wickets or more taken in the match |
| ‡ | Steyn was selected as man of the match |

## Tests

Five-wicket hauls in Test cricket by Dale Steyn :
| No. | Date | Ground | Against | Inn | Overs | Runs | Wkts | Econ | Batsmen | Result |
| 1 | 15 April 2006 | SuperSport Park, Centurion | New Zealand | 4 | 17 | 47 | 5 | 2.76 | Stephen Fleming Scott Styris Brendon McCullum Daniel Vettori Chris Martin | Won |
| 2 | 6 August 2006 | P Saravanamuttu Stadium, Colombo | Sri Lanka | 2 | 13.1 | 82 | 5 | 6.22 | Mahela Jayawardene Prasanna Jayawardene Farveez Maharoof Chaminda Vaas Muttiah Muralitharan | Lost |
| 3 | 1 October 2007 | National Stadium, Karachi | Pakistan | 4 | 15 | 56 | 5 | 3.73 | Mohammad Hafeez Salman Butt Younus Khan Abdur Rehman Umar Gul | Won |
| 4 | 8 November 2007 * † ‡1 | Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg | New Zealand | 2 | 14.3 | 34 | 5 | 2.34 | Craig Cumming Shane Bond Jacob Oram Brendon McCullum Chris Martin | Won |
| 5 | 8 November 2007 * † ‡ 2 | Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg | New Zealand | 4 | 17 | 59 | 5 | 3.47 | Craig Cumming Scott Styris Brendon McCullum Iain O'Brien Chris Martin | Won |
| 6 | 16 November 2007 † ‡ | SuperSport Park, Centurion | New Zealand | 4 | 10.3 | 49 | 6 | 4.66 | Lou Vincent Michael Papps Stephen Fleming Brendon McCullum Mark Gillespie Iain O'Brien | Won |
| 7 | 11 January 2008 | Kingsmead Cricket Ground, Durban | West Indies | 3 | 21.5 | 72 | 6 | 3.29 | Brenton Parchment Marlon Samuels Dwayne Bravo Darren Sammy Daren Powell Fidel Edwards | Won |
| 8 | 3 April 2008 | Sardar Patel Stadium, Ahmedabad | India | 1 | 8 | 23 | 5 | 2.87 | Virender Sehwag Rahul Dravid Harbhajan Singh R. P. Singh S. Sreesanth | Won |
| 9 | 19 November 2008 | OUTsurance Oval, Bloemfontein | Bangladesh | 3 | 18 | 63 | 5 | 3.50 | Imrul Kayes Shakib Al Hasan Naeem Islam Mashrafe Mortaza Shahadat Hossain | Won |
| 10 | 26 December 2008 * † ‡ 1 | Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne | Australia | 1 | 29 | 87 | 5 | 3.00 | Simon Katich Michael Hussey Brett Lee Mitchell Johnson Nathan Hauritz | Won |
| 11 | 26 December 2008 * † ‡ 2 | Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne | Australia | 3 | 20.2 | 67 | 5 | 3.29 | Matthew Hayden Simon Katich Michael Clarke Andrew Symonds Peter Siddle | Won |
| 12 | 14 January 2010 | Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg | England | 1 | 13.5 | 51 | 5 | 3.68 | Andrew Strauss Ian Bell Matt Prior Graeme Swann Ryan Sidebottom | Won |
| 13 | 6 February 2010 † | Vidarbha Cricket Association Stadium, Nagpur | India | 2 | 16.4 | 51 | 7 | 3.06 | Murali Vijay Sachin Tendulkar Subramaniam Badrinath Wriddhiman Saha Harbhajan Singh Zaheer Khan Amit Mishra | Won |
| 14 | 10 June 2010 ‡ | Queen's Park Oval, Port of Spain | West Indies | 2 | 14 | 29 | 5 | 2.07 | Shivnarine Chanderpaul Narsingh Deonarine Shane Shillingford Sulieman Benn Nelon Pascal | Won |
| 15 | 26 December 2010 | Kingsmead Cricket Ground, Durban | India | 1 | 19 | 50 | 6 | 2.63 | Virender Sehwag Murali Vijay Rahul Dravid VVS Laxman Mahendra Singh Dhoni Harbhajan Singh | Lost |
| 16 | 2 January 2011 | Newlands Cricket Ground, Cape Town | India | 2 | 31 | 75 | 5 | 2.41 | Virender Sehwag Cheteshwar Pujara MS Dhoni Harbhajan Singh Ishant Sharma | Drawn |
| 17 | 26 December 2011 | Kingsmead Cricket Ground, Durban | Sri Lanka | 3 | 20 | 73 | 5 | 3.65 | Tillakaratne Dilshan Angelo Mathews Dinesh Chandimal Thisara Perera Chanaka Welegedara | Lost |
| 18 | 19 July 2012 | Kennington Oval, London | England | 3 | 21 | 56 | 5 | 2.66 | Jonathan Trott Ian Bell Ravi Bopara Stuart Broad Graeme Swann | Won |
| 19 | 11 January 2013 ‡ | St George's Oval, Port Elizabeth | New Zealand | 2 | 13 | 17 | 5 | 1.30 | Martin Guptill Kane Williamson Doug Bracewell Neil Wagner Jeetan Patel | Won |
| 20 | 1 February 2013 * † ‡ 1 | Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg | Pakistan | 2 | 8.1 | 8 | 6 | 0.97 | Mohammad Hafeez Nasir Jamshed Younus Khan Sarfraz Ahmed Saeed Ajmal Rahat Ali | Won |
| 21 | 1 February 2013 * † ‡ 2 | Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg | Pakistan | 4 | 28.4 | 52 | 5 | 1.81 | Nasir Jamshed Misbah-ul-Haq Asad Shafiq Umar Gul Junaid Khan | Won |
| 22 | 26 December 2013 ‡ | Kingsmead Cricket Ground, Durban | India | 1 | 30 | 100 | 6 | 3.33 | Murali Vijay Cheteshwar Pujara Rohit Sharma MS Dhoni Zaheer Khan Ishant Sharma | Won |
| 23 | 18 July 2014 ‡ | Galle International Stadium, Galle | Sri Lanka | 2 | 24 | 54 | 5 | 2.30 | align=center Kaushal Silva Mahela Jayawardhane Lahiru Thirimanne Dinesh Chandimal Dilruwan Perera | Won |
| 24 | 9 August 2014 | Harare Sports Club, Harare | Zimbabwe | 1 | 22.4 | 46 | 5 | 2.02 | Vusi Sibanda Sean Williams Richmond Mutumbami Tendai Chatara John Nyumbu | Won |
| 25 | 17 December 2014 | SuperSport Park, Centurion | West Indies | 2 | 8.2 | 34 | 6 | 4.08 | Leon Johnson Marlon Samuels Shivnarine Chanderpaul Denesh Ramdin Jerome Taylor Sheldon Cottrell | Won |
| 26 | 30 August 2016 | SuperSport Park, Centurion | New Zealand | 4 | 16.2 | 33 | 5 | 2.02 | Tom Latham Martin Guptill Ross Taylor Henry Nicholls Mitchell Santner | Won |

## One Day Internationals

Five-wicket haul in One Day Internationals by Dale Steyn :
| No. | Date | Ground | Against | Inn | Overs | Runs | Wkts | Econ | Batsmen | Result |
| 1 | 12 March 2011 ‡ | Vidarbha Cricket Association Stadium, Nagpur | India | 1 | 9.4 | 50 | 5 | 5.17 | Gautam Gambhir Yusuf Pathan Harbhajan Singh Ashish Nehra Munaf Patel | Won |
| 2 | 8 November 2013 ‡ | Sheikh Zayed Cricket Stadium, Abu Dhabi | Pakistan | 2 | 10 | 25 | 5 | 2.50 | Sohaib Maqsood Misbah-ul-Haq Sohail Tanvir Umar Akmal Saeed Ajmal | Won |
| 3 | 27 November 2013 | St George's Park, Port Elizabeth | Pakistan | 1 | 9 | 39 | 6 | 4.33 | Nasir Jamshed Mohammad Hafeez Umar Akmal Shahid Afridi Bilawal Bhatti Saeed Ajmal | Lost |