# List of international cricket five-wicket hauls by Imran Khan

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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") 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 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", while ESPNcricinfo declared him as "the greatest cricketer to emerge from Pakistan, and arguably the world's second-best allrounder after Garry Sobers". In 1983 he was named as one of the five Cricketers of the Year by the Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, and was inducted into the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame in January 2009.
Khan made his Test debut in 1971 against England at Edgbaston Cricket Ground. His first Test five-wicket haul came in 1977 against Australia in a match at Melbourne Cricket Ground which Pakistan lost. In the same year, he took his first pair of five-wicket hauls in a single match against Australia at the Sydney Cricket Ground. By the end of his career, he had claimed five-wickets hauls in both innings of a match on three occasions. His career-best figures for an innings were 8 wickets for 58 runs against Sri Lanka at Gaddafi Stadium, in March 1982. He took ten or more wickets in a match on six occasions.
Having made his One Day International (ODI) debut in August 1974 against England at Trent Bridge, Nottingham, Khan's solitary ODI five-wicket haul came in 1985 against India in a match at the Sharjah Cricket Association Stadium which Pakistan lost. He took 6 wickets for 14 runs in the match, which was his career-best bowling in ODI cricket. By the time he retired from international cricket in 1992 after nearly 21 years, Khan had taken 23 five-wicket hauls in Test cricket and one in ODIs. 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.

## Key

| Symbol | Meaning |
| Date | Date the match was held, or starting date of the match for Test matches |
| Overs | Number of overs bowled in that innings |
| Runs | Runs conceded |
| Wkts | Number of wickets taken |
| Batsmen | The batsmen whose wickets were taken in the five-wicket haul |
| Econ | Bowling economy rate (average runs per over) |
| Inn | The innings of the match in which the five-wicket haul was taken |
| Result | The result for the Pakistan team in that match |
| † | Khan selected as "Man of the match" |
| ‡ | 10 wickets or more taken in the match |
| * | One of two five-wicket hauls by Khan in a match |

## Tests

Five-wicket hauls in Test cricket :
| No. | Date | Ground | Against | Inn | Overs | Runs | Wkts | Econ | Batsmen | Result |
| 1 | 1 January 1977 | Melbourne Cricket Ground | Australia | 3 | 25.5 | 122 | 5 | 3.57 | Alan Turner Greg Chappell Doug Walters Gary Cosier Dennis Lillee | Lost |
| 2 | 14 January 1977*‡ | Sydney Cricket Ground | Australia | 1 | 26 | 102 | 6 | 2.94 | Rick McCosker Greg Chappell Doug Walters Gary Cosier Rod Marsh Gary Gilmour | Won |
| 3 | 14 January 1977*‡ | Sydney Cricket Ground | Australia | 3 | 19.7 | 63 | 6 | 2.37 | Ian Davis Rick McCosker Doug Walters Gary Gilmour Kerry O'Keeffe Dennis Lillee | Won |
| 4 | 15 April 1977 | Sabina Park, Kingston | West Indies | 1 | 18 | 90 | 6 | 5.00 | Roy Fredericks Viv Richards Clive Lloyd Alvin Kallicharran Deryck Murray David Holford | Lost |
| 5 | 16 February 1979 | McLean Park, Napier | New Zealand | 2 | 33 | 106 | 5 | 2.40 | Bruce Edgar Mark Burgess Stephen Boock Warren Lees Richard Hadlee | Drawn |
| 6 | 15 January 1980 | Madras Cricket Club Ground, Chennai | India | 2 | 38.2 | 114 | 5 | 2.97 | Sunil Gavaskar Dilip Vengsarkar Syed Kirmani Kapil Dev Dilip Doshi | Lost |
| 7 | 29 January 1980 | Eden Gardens, Kolkata | India | 3 | 23.5 | 63 | 5 | 2.64 | Roger Binny Syed Kirmani Gundappa Viswanath Sunil Gavaskar Dilip Doshi | Drawn |
| 8 | 30 December 1980 | Ibn-e-Qasim Bagh Stadium, Multan | West Indies | 1 | 22 | 62 | 5 | 2.81 | Desmond Haynes Faoud Bacchus Alvin Kallicharran David Murray Joel Garner | Drawn |
| 9 | 22 March 1982*‡ | Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore | Sri Lanka | 1 | 29.3 | 58 | 8 | 1.96 | Bandula Warnapura Sidath Wettimuny Rohan Jayasekera Roy Dias Ranjan Madugalle Somachandra de Silva Mahes Goonatilleke Roger Wijesuriya | Won |
| 10 | 22 March 1982*‡ | Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore | Sri Lanka | 3 | 22.5 | 58 | 6 | 2.54 | Sidath Wettimuny Rohan Jayasekera Ashantha de Mel Mahes Goonatilleke Ravi Ratnayeke Roger Wijesuriya | Won |
| 11 | 29 July 1982 † | Edgbaston Cricket Ground, Birmingham | England | 1 | 25.3 | 52 | 7 | 2.03 | Derek Randall David Gower Ian Botham Geoff Miller Ian Greig Eddie Hemmings Bob Taylor | Lost |
| 12 | 26 August 1982 † | Headingley, Leeds | England | 2 | 25.2 | 49 | 5 | 1.93 | Chris Tavaré Mike Gatting Allan Lamb Bob Taylor Robin Jackman | Lost |
| 13 | 23 December 1982 ‡† | National Stadium, Karachi | India | 4 | 20.1 | 60 | 8 | 2.97 | Sunil Gavaskar Dilip Vengsarkar Gundappa Viswanath Mohinder Amarnath Sandeep Patil Kapil Dev Maninder Singh Dilip Doshi | Won |
| 14 | 3 January 1983*‡† | Iqbal Stadium, Faisalabad | India | 1 | 25 | 98 | 6 | 3.92 | Sunil Gavaskar Dilip Vengsarkar Sandeep Patil Syed Kirmani Kapil Dev Madan Lal | Won |
| 15 | 3 January 1983*‡† | Iqbal Stadium, Faisalabad | India | 3 | 30.5 | 82 | 5 | 2.65 | Dilip Vengsarkar Mohinder Amarnath Sandeep Patil Maninder Singh Dilip Doshi | Won |
| 16 | 14 January 1983 | Niaz Stadium, Hyderabad | India | 2 | 17.2 | 35 | 6 | 2.01 | Sunil Gavaskar Gundappa Viswanath Dilip Vengsarkar Kapil Dev Syed Kirmani Dilip Doshi | Won |
| 17 | 27 October 1985 | Jinnah Stadium, Sialkot | Sri Lanka | 3 | 18.3 | 40 | 5 | 2.16 | Sidath Wettimuny Arjuna Ranatunga Ashantha de Mel Rumesh Ratnayake Roger Wijesuriya | Won |
| 18 | 20 November 1986 | Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore | West Indies | 2 | 30.5 | 59 | 5 | 1.91 | Larry Gomes Jeff Dujon Clyde Butts Tony Gray Courtney Walsh | Lost |
| 19 | 7 November 1986 | National Stadium, Karachi | West Indies | 3 | 22.3 | 46 | 6 | 2.04 | Viv Richards Roger Harper Malcolm Marshall Clyde Butts Tony Gray Courtney Walsh | Drawn |
| 20 | 4 July 1987 ‡† | Headingley, Leeds | England | 3 | 19.1 | 40 | 7 | 2.08 | Chris Broad Tim Robinson Bill Athey David Gower David Capel Jack Richards Graham Dilley | Won |
| 21 | 23 July 1987 | Edgbaston Cricket Ground, Birmingham | England | 2 | 41.5 | 129 | 6 | 3.08 | Chris Broad Bill Athey David Gower Mike Gatting Bruce French Graham Dilley | Drawn |
| 22 | 2 April 1988 ‡† | Bourda, Georgetown | West Indies | 1 | 22.4 | 80 | 7 | 3.52 | Desmond Haynes Richie Richardson Carl Hooper Jeff Dujon Winston Benjamin Courtney Walsh Patrick Patterson | Won |
| 23 | 17 April 1988 | Queen's Park Oval, Port of Spain | West Indies | 3 | 45 | 115 | 5 | 2.55 | Gordon Greenidge Desmond Haynes Richie Richardson Gus Logie Carl Hooper | Drawn |

## One Day Internationals

Five-wicket haul in ODI cricket :
| No. | Date | Ground | Against | Inn | Overs | Runs | Wkts | Econ | Batsmen | Result |
| 1 | 22 March 1985 † | Sharjah Cricket Association Stadium | India | 1 | 10 | 14 | 6 | 1.40 | Ravi Shastri Kris Srikkanth Dilip Vengsarkar Sunil Gavaskar Mohinder Amarnath Madan Lal | Lost |