# List of women's Test cricketers who have taken five wickets on debut

Women's Test cricket has been played since 1934, when England faced Australia in a three-match series. Since that first match, over 130 Tests have been competed. The advent of Twenty20 cricket in the early part of the 21st century has all but eliminated Test cricket from the woman's game. Thirteen players have claimed five-wicket hauls (five or more wickets in an innings) on their debut in women's Test cricket.
The only occasion on which more than one player has taken a five-wicket haul on debut in the same match was during the first women's Test match in December 1934. During this match, three players achieved the feat; Myrtle Maclagan and Mary Spear for England, and Anne Palmer for Australia. Maclagan's bowling figures of seven wickets for 10 runs are the best by any woman on Test debut, and is one of three occasions on which a player has claimed seven wickets on their women's Test debut, along with Palmer and Lesley Johnston. Betty Wilson, who was the fourth player to take five wickets in an innings on debut, is the only woman to have taken ten wickets in a match on debut. Spear's five wickets for 51 runs was the most economical bowling when taking five wickets, conceding just 0.44 runs per over. Conversely, Shubhangi Kulkarni was the most expensive, allowing 4.11 runs per over. Isobel Joyce bowled the fewest overs in her innings when taking a five-wicket haul, six wickets for 21 runs from 11.1 overs.
The most recent occasion on which a player took five wickets in an innings on debut was in July 2007, when South Africa's Sunette Loubser achieved the feat in a match against the Netherlands.

## Key

| Date – Starting date of the match I – The innings of the match in which the five-wicket haul was taken O – Number of overs bowled in that innings R – Runs conceded W – Number of wickets taken E – Bowling economy rate (average runs per over) | Batsmen – The batsmen whose wickets were taken in the five-wicket haul Result – The result for the bowler's team in that match Won – The match was won by bowler's team Lost – The match was lost by bowler's team Drawn – The match was drawn ‡ – 10 wickets or more taken in the match |

## Bowlers

Five-wicket hauls on debut in women's Test cricket :
| No. | Bowler | Date | Ground | For | Against | I | O | R | W | E | Batsmen | Result |
| 1 | Myrtle Maclagan | 28 December 19341 | Exhibition Ground, Brisbane | England | Australia | 1 | 17 | 10 | 7 | 0.58 | Hazel Pritchard Ruby Monaghan Nell McLarty Essie Shevill Kath Smith Lorna Kettels Anne Palmer | Won |
| 2 | Anne Palmer | 28 December 19342 | Exhibition Ground, Brisbane | Australia | England | 2 | 13.2 | 18 | 7 | 1.35 | Myrtle Maclagan Molly Hide Mollie Child Joy Partridge Doris Turner Mary Spear Carol Valentine | Lost |
| 3 | Mary Spear | 28 December 19343 | Exhibition Ground, Brisbane | England | Australia | 3 | 34 | 15 | 5 | 0.44 | Hazel Pritchard Nell McLarty Lorna Kettels Margaret Peden Peggy Antonio | Won |
| 4 | Betty Wilson ‡ | 20 March 1948 | Basin Reserve, Wellington | Australia | New Zealand | 3 | 14 | 28 | 6 | 2.00 | Vera Burt Ina Lamason Hilda Thompson Phyl Blackler Una Wickham Vi Farrell | Won |
| 5 | Grace Gooder | 26 March 1949 | Eden Park, Auckland | New Zealand | England | 1 | 23.2 | 42 | 6 | 1.80 | Cecilia Robinson Mary Duggan Grace Morgan Megan Lowe Mary Johnson Eileen Whelan | Lost |
| 6 | Loretta Bayliss | 17 March 1961 | Carisbrook, Dunedin | New Zealand | Australia | 4 | 18 | 28 | 5 | 1.55 | Kit Raymond Joyce Christ Valma Batty Norma Wilson Una Paisley | Drawn |
| 7 | Lesley Johnston | 5 February 1972 | St Kilda Cricket Ground, Melbourne | Australia | New Zealand | 1 | 13.2 | 24 | 7 | 1.35 | Janice Stead Bev Brentnall Lynda Prichard Jill Saulbrey Pat Carrick Elaine White Jackie Lord | Lost |
| 8 | Vivalyn Latty-Scott | 7 May 1976 | Jarrett Park, Jamaica | West Indies | Australia | 2 | 41 | 48 | 5 | 1.17 | Lorraine Hill Wendy Hills Jan Lumsden Anne Gordon Marie Cornish | Drawn |
| 9 | Shubhangi Kulkarni | 31 October 1976 | M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore | India | West Indies | 1 | 11.4 | 48 | 5 | 4.11 | Patricia Whittaker Yolande Geddes-Hall Leila Williams Sheryl Bayley Nora St Rose | Drawn |
| 10 | Chamani Seneviratne | 17 April 1998 | Colts Cricket Club Ground, Colombo | Sri Lanka | Pakistan | 2 | 24 | 31 | 5 | 1.29 | Sadia Butt Deebah Sherazi Asma Farzand Sharmeen Khan Mahewish Khan | Won |
| 11 | Isobel Joyce | 30 September 2000 | College Park, Dublin | Ireland | Pakistan | 3 | 11.1 | 21 | 6 | 1.88 | Sajjida Shah Khursheed Jabeen Nazia Nazir Kiran Baluch Sadia Butt Mahewish Khan | Won |
| 12 | Rebecca Steele | 27 November 2003 | Bilakhiya Stadium, Vapi | New Zealand | India | 2 | 42 | 79 | 5 | 1.88 | Anju Jain Anjum Chopra Jhulan Goswami Mamatha Maben Deepa Marathe | Drawn |
| 13 | Sunette Loubser | 28 July 2007 | Hazelaarweg, Rotterdam | South Africa | Netherlands | 2 | 40.3 | 37 | 5 | 0.91 | Violet Wattenberg Marloes Braat Caroline de Fouw Mandy Kornet Jolet Hartenhof | Won |