# List of international cricket five-wicket hauls by James Anderson

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. James Anderson, an English cricketer has taken 34 five-wicket hauls in international cricket. A right-arm fast-medium bowler, Anderson played 188 Tests and 194 One Day International (ODI) matches for his country, and took 704 and 269 wickets respectively. He was honoured with the NBC Denis Compton Award for "The Most Promising Young Player" in 2002, and the Wisden Cricketers' Almanack named him one of their cricketers of the year in 2009. In 2013, former Pakistan captain, Wasim Akram described him as "the best bowler of this era".
Anderson took a five-wicket haul on his Test debut in 2003 against Zimbabwe at Lord's Cricket Ground. He took 5 wickets for 73 runs in the match which England won by an innings and 92 runs. In July 2010, he took five-wicket hauls in both innings of a Test match against Pakistan at the Trent Bridge. In total, he took 11 wickets for 71 runs, which remains his best bowling figures in a Test match as of August 2020. He took another pair of five-wicket hauls at the same venue, against Australia in the first Test of the 2013 Ashes series. Anderson's career-best figures for an innings are 7 wickets for 42 runs against West Indies at Lord's Cricket Ground, in September 2017. As of 2022, he has taken 32 Test five-wicket hauls at 11 cricket grounds, and has been most successful against India with six five-wicket hauls against them.
Anderson made his ODI debut against Australia at the Melbourne Cricket Ground during the 2002–03 VB series; England lost the match by 89 runs. His first ODI five-wicket haul came in November 2009 against South Africa at the St George's Oval. His career best performance of 5 wickets for 23 runs in the match earned him the man of the match award. Anderson has taken two five-wicket hauls in ODI cricket.
Making his first Twenty20 International (T20I) appearance in 2007, Anderson has yet to take a five-wicket haul in the format As of 2017. His best performance in T20I is 3 wickets for 23 runs, against the Netherlands at Lord's Cricket Ground during the 2009 ICC World Twenty20.
As of 2024, he is ninth among all-time five-wicket haul takers, and first in the equivalent list for England.

## 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 | Number of 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) |
| Result | Result for the England team |
| * | One of two five-wicket hauls by Anderson in a match |
| † | 10 wickets or more taken in the match |
| ‡ | Anderson was selected as man of the match |

## Tests

Five-wicket hauls in Test cricket by James Anderson :
| No. | Date | Ground | Against | Inn | Overs | Runs | Wkts | Econ | Batsmen | Result |
| 1 | 22 May 2003 | Lord's Cricket Ground, London | Zimbabwe | 2 | 16 | 73 | 5 | 4.56 | Mark Vermeulen Heath Streak Andy Blignaut Travis Friend Douglas Hondo | Won |
| 2 | 14 August 2003 | Trent Bridge, Nottingham | South Africa | 2 | 27.5 | 102 | 5 | 3.66 | Jacques Kallis Neil McKenzie Shaun Pollock Andrew Hall Paul Adams | Won |
| 3 | 19 July 2007 | Lord's Cricket Ground, London | India | 2 | 24.2 | 42 | 5 | 1.72 | Rahul Dravid Sachin Tendulkar Sourav Ganguly MS Dhoni Anil Kumble | Drawn |
| 4 | 13 March 2008 | Basin Reserve, Wellington | New Zealand | 2 | 20 | 73 | 5 | 3.65 | Jamie How Matthew Bell Stephen Fleming Mathew Sinclair Ross Taylor | Won |
| 5 | 5 June 2008 ‡ | Trent Bridge, Nottingham | New Zealand | 2 | 21.3 | 43 | 7 | 2.00 | Jamie How Aaron Redmond Brendon McCullum Ross Taylor Daniel Flynn Gareth Hopkins Jacob Oram | Won |
| 6 | 14 May 2009 ‡ | Riverside Ground, Chester-le-Street | West Indies | 2 | 26.3 | 87 | 5 | 3.28 | Devon Smith Chris Gayle Ramnaresh Sarwan Lendl Simmons Brendan Nash | Won |
| 7 | 30 July 2009 | Edgbaston, Birmingham | Australia | 1 | 24 | 80 | 5 | 3.33 | Michael Clarke Marcus North Graham Manou Mitchell Johnson Peter Siddle | Drawn |
| 8 | 3 January 2010 | Newlands Cricket Ground, Cape Town | South Africa | 1 | 21.2 | 63 | 5 | 2.97 | Graeme Smith Ashwell Prince Dale Steyn Morne Morkel Friedel de Wet | Drawn |
| 9 | 29 July 2010 * † ‡ | Trent Bridge, Nottingham | Pakistan | 2 | 22 | 54 | 5 | 2.45 | Imran Farhat Salman Butt Azhar Ali Shoaib Malik Mohammad Amir | Won |
| 10 | 29 July 2010 * † ‡ | Trent Bridge, Nottingham | Pakistan | 4 | 15 | 17 | 6 | 1.13 | Imran Farhat Umar Amin Umar Akmal Shoaib Malik Umar Gul Mohammad Asif | Won |
| 11 | 21 July 2011 | Lord's Cricket Ground, London | India | 4 | 28 | 65 | 5 | 2.32 | Rahul Dravid VVS Laxman Sachin Tendulkar Suresh Raina Harbhajan Singh | Won |
| 12 | 26 March 2012 | Galle International Stadium, Galle | Sri Lanka | 1 | 20.3 | 72 | 5 | 3.51 | Lahiru Thirimanne Kumar Sangakkara Mahela Jayawardene Prasanna Jayawardene Chanaka Welegedara | Lost |
| 13 | 16 May 2013 | Lord's Cricket Ground, London | New Zealand | 2 | 24 | 47 | 5 | 1.95 | Peter Fulton Hamish Rutherford Kane Williamson Ross Taylor Bruce Martin | Won |
| 14 | 10 July 2013 * † ‡ | Trent Bridge, Nottingham | Australia | 2 | 24 | 85 | 5 | 3.54 | Chris Rogers Michael Clarke Steve Smith Peter Siddle Mitchell Starc | Won |
| 15 | 10 July 2013 * † ‡ | Trent Bridge, Nottingham | Australia | 4 | 31.5 | 73 | 5 | 2.29 | Chris Rogers Brad Haddin Ashton Agar Mitchell Starc Peter Siddle | Won |
| 16 | 27 July 2014 ‡ | Rose Bowl, Southampton | India | 2 | 26.1 | 53 | 5 | 2.02 | Shikhar Dhawan Virat Kohli Ravindra Jadeja MS Dhoni Mohammed Shami | Won |
| 17 | 1 May 2015 | Kensington Oval, Bridgetown | West Indies | 2 | 12.4 | 42 | 6 | 2.02 | Kraigg Brathwaite Shai Hope Marlon Samuels Veerasammy Permaul Jerome Taylor Jermaine Blackwood | Lost |
| 18 | 29 July 2015 | Edgbaston, Birmingham | Australia | 1 | 14.4 | 47 | 6 | 3.20 | David Warner Adam Voges Mitchell Marsh Peter Nevill Mitchell Johnson Nathan Lyon | Won |
| 19 | 19 May 2016 * † | Headingley, Leeds | Sri Lanka | 2 | 11.4 | 16 | 5 | 1.37 | Kaushal Silva Angelo Mathews Dasun Shanaka Rangana Herath Shaminda Eranga | Won |
| 20 | 19 May 2016 * † | Headingley, Leeds | Sri Lanka | 3 | 13.3 | 29 | 5 | 2.15 | Dimuth Karunaratne Kaushal Silva Kusal Mendis Dasun Shanaka Nuwan Pradeep | Won |
| 21 | 27 May 2016 ‡ | Riverside Ground, Chester-le-Street | Sri Lanka | 3 | 27 | 58 | 5 | 2.14 | Kusal Mendis Angelo Mathews Milinda Siriwardana Rangana Herath Shaminda Eranga | Won |
| 22 | 14 July 2017 | Trent Bridge, Nottingham | South Africa | 1 | 23.2 | 72 | 5 | 3.08 | Dean Elgar Vernon Philander Keshav Maharaj Chris Morris Morne Morkel | Lost |
| 23 | 25 August 2017 | Headingley, Leeds | West Indies | 2 | 29 | 76 | 5 | 2.62 | Kieran Powell Devendra Bishoo Kyle Hope Shai Hope Shane Dowrich | Lost |
| 24 | 7 September 2017 | Lord's Cricket Ground, London | West Indies | 3 | 20.1 | 42 | 7 | 2.08 | Kraigg Brathwaite Kieran Powell Roston Chase Jermaine Blackwood Shai Hope Devendra Bishoo Kemar Roach | Won |
| 25 | 2 December 2017 | Adelaide Oval, Adelaide | Australia | 3 | 22 | 43 | 5 | 1.95 | Cameron Bancroft Usman Khawaja Nathan Lyon Peter Handscomb Mitchell Starc | Lost |
| 26 | 9 August 2018 | Lord's Cricket Ground, London | India | 1 | 13.2 | 20 | 5 | 1.50 | Murali Vijay KL Rahul Ajinkya Rahane Kuldeep Yadav Ishant Sharma | Won |
| 27 | 23 January 2019 | Kensington Oval, Bridgetown | West Indies | 1 | 30 | 46 | 5 | 1.53 | Shai Hope Roston Chase Shane Dowrich Jason Holder Alzarri Joseph | Lost |
| 28 | 3 January 2020 | Newlands Cricket Ground, Cape Town | South Africa | 2 | 19 | 40 | 5 | 2.10 | Faf du Plessis Dwaine Pretorius Keshav Maharaj Kagiso Rabada Anrich Nortje | Won |
| 29 | 21 August 2020 | Rose Bowl, Southampton | Pakistan | 2 | 23 | 56 | 5 | 2.43 | Shan Masood Abid Ali Babar Azam Asad Shafiq Naseem Shah | Drawn |
| 30 | 22 January 2021 | Galle International Stadium, Galle | Sri Lanka | 1 | 29 | 40 | 6 | 1.38 | Kusal Perera Oshada Fernando Lahiru Thirimanne Angelo Mathews Niroshan Dickwella Suranga Lakmal | Won |
| 31 | 12 August 2021 | Lord's Cricket Ground, London | India | 1 | 29 | 62 | 5 | 1.50 | Rohit Sharma Cheteshwar Pujara Ajinkya Rahane Ishant Sharma Jasprit Bumrah | Lost |
| 32 | 1 July 2022 | Edgbaston, Birmingham | India | 1 | 21.5 | 60 | 5 | 2.74 | Shubman Gill Cheteshwar Pujara Shreyas Iyer Ravindra Jadeja Mohammed Siraj | Won |

## One Day Internationals

Five-wicket hauls in ODI cricket by James Anderson :
| No. | Date | Ground | Against | Inn | Overs | Runs | Wkts | Econ | Batsmen | Result |
| 1 | 29 November 2009 ‡ | St George's Oval, Port Elizabeth | South Africa | 1 | 10 | 23 | 5 | 2.30 | Hashim Amla JP Duminy Mark Boucher Ryan McLaren Johan Botha | Won |
| 2 | 20 February 2013 | McLean Park, Napier | New Zealand | 1 | 9.5 | 34 | 5 | 3.45 | BJ Watling Hamish Rutherford Ross Taylor Nathan McCullum Trent Boult | Won |