# List of international cricket five-wicket hauls at Eden Gardens

Eden Gardens is a cricket ground in Kolkata, India. It is the home of the Bengal cricket team and the Indian Premier League's Kolkata Knight Riders, as well as being a Test and One Day International ground. It has a capacity of 90,000. The ground has held Test matches since 1934 and hosted its first One Day International in 1987.
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. The first bowler to take a five-wicket haul in a Test match at Eden Gardens was Dattu Phadkar for India against Pakistan in 1952. Australia's Richie Benaud became the first to take two five-wicket hauls in the same match at Eden Gardens, when he took 6 for 52 and 5 for 53 in the second and fourth innings of the third Test of Australia's 1956–57 tour of India. As of December 2019, 44 Test match five-wicket hauls have occurred at the ground.
Three bowlers have taken five-wicket hauls during ODIs at Eden Gardens. The first player to do so was Allan Donald of South Africa, who achieved the feat when he took 5 wickets for 29 runs against India in 1991. The second five-wicket haul was made by India's Anil Kumble, which is also the best figures in ODI cricket at this ground. He took 6 for 12 against the West Indies in 1993. The most recent was by Ravindra Jadeja against South Africa during the 2023 Cricket World Cup.
Bangladeshi bowler Mustafizur Rahman is the only bowler to have taken a five-wicket haul in a T20I match held at the ground, doing so against New Zealand during the 2016 ICC World Twenty20.

## 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 Eden Gardens :
| No. | Bowler | Date | Team | Opposing team | Inn | Overs | Runs | Wkts | Econ | Batsmen | Result |
| 1 | Dattu Phadkar | 12 December 1952 | India | Pakistan | 1 | 32 | 72 | 5 | 2.25 | Hanif Mohammad Waqar Hasan Abdul Kardar Anwar Hussain Imtiaz Ahmed | Match drawn |
| 2 | Subhash Gupte | 28 December 1955 | India | New Zealand | 2 | 33.5 | 90 | 6 | 2.66 | John Guy Noel McGregor Tony MacGibbon Harry Cave John Hayes Jack Alabaster | Match drawn |
| 3 | Ghulam Ahmed | 2 November 1956 | India | Australia | 1 | 20.3 | 49 | 7 | 2.39 | Colin McDonald Neil Harvey Jim Burke Peter Burge Richie Benaud Ray Lindwall Pat Crawford | Australia won |
| 4 | Richie Benaud § | 2 November 1956 | Australia | India | 2 | 29 | 52 | 6 | 1.79 | | Australia won |
| 5 | Richie Benaud § | 2 November 1956 | Australia | India | 4 | 24.2 | 53 | 5 | 2.17 | | Australia won |

## One Day Internationals

Five-wicket hauls in One Day International matches at Eden Gardens :
| No. | Bowler | Date | Team | Opposing team | Inn | Overs | Runs | Wkts | Econ | Batsmen | Result |
| 1 | Allan Donald † | 10 November 1991 | South Africa | India | 2 | 8.4 | 29 | 5 | 3.34 | Ravi Shastri Sanjay Manjrekar Navjot Sidhu Sachin Tendulkar Pravin Amre | India won |
| 2 | Anil Kumble † | 27 November 1993 | India | West Indies | 2 | 6.1 | 12 | 6 | 1.94 | Roland Holder Jimmy Adams Anderson Cummins Carl Hooper Winston Benjamin Curtly Ambrose | India won |
| 3 | Ravindra Jadeja | 15 November 2023 | India | South Africa | 2 | 9 | 33 | 5 | 3.66 | Temba Bavuma Heinrich Klaasen David Miller Keshav Maharaj Kagiso Rabada | India won |

## Twenty20 Internationals

    As of 21 November 2023
A single five-wicket haul has been taken in T20I matches on the ground.
Five-wicket hauls in Twenty20 Internationals at Eden Gardens :
| No. | Bowler | Date | Team | Opposing team | Inn | Overs | Runs | Wkts | Batsmen | Result |
| 1 | Mustafizur Rahman | 26 March 2016 | Bangladesh | New Zealand | 1 | 4 | 22 | 5 | Henry Nicholls Kane Williamson Grant Elliott Mitchell Santner Nathan McCullum | New Zealand won |