# List of international cricket five-wicket hauls at Bourda

Bourda cricket ground in Georgetown, Guyana hosted international cricket matches between 1930 and 2006. The ground is also known as Georgetown Cricket Club. It hosted 30 Test matches and 11 One Day Internationals, all with the West Indies cricket team as the home side. A new stadium, Providence Stadium, was built in Guyana as a replacement for Bourda ahead of the 2007 Cricket World Cup which was hosted by the West Indies. No international cricket has been played at Bourda since then.
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. This article details the five-wicket hauls taken on the ground in official international Test and One Day International (ODI) matches.
West Indian Learie Constantine took the first five-wicket haul on the ground, taking five wickets for 87 runs (5/87) against England in the first Test match played on the ground in 1930. The best innings bowling figures on the ground are Australian Ian Johnson's 7/44 taken in 1955 whilst Pakistan's bowler Imran Khan has the best bowling figures in a match, taking 11/21, including a five-wicket haul, in 1988.

## Key

| Symbol | Meaning |
| Date | Day the Test started |
| Inn | Innings in which the five-wicket haul was taken |
| O | Number of overs bowled by the bowler in the innings |
| R | Number of runs conceded by the bowler in the innings |
| W | Number of wickets taken by the bowler in the innings |
| Result | Result of the match |

## Test match five-wicket hauls

A total of 21 five-wicket hauls were taken on the ground, all of them in men's Test matches.
Five-wicket hauls in Men's Test matches at Bourda :
| No. | Bowler | Date | Team | Opposing Team | Inn | O | R | W | Result |
| 1 | Learie Constantine | 21 February 1930 | West Indies | England | 4 | 40 | 87 | 5 | West Indies won |
| 2 | Eric Hollies | 14 February 1935 | England | West Indies | 2 | 26 | 50 | 7 | Drawn |
| 3 | John Goddard | 3 March 1948 | West Indies | England | 2 | 14.2 | 31 | 5 | West Indies won |
| 4 | Wilfred Ferguson | 3 March 1948 | West Indies | England | 3 | 40 | 116 | 5 | West Indies won |
| 5 | Alf Valentine | 11 March 1953 | West Indies | India | 1 | 53.5 | 127 | 5 | Drawn |
| 6 | Sonny Ramadhin | 24 February 1954 | West Indies | England | 1 | 67 | 113 | 6 | England won |
| 7 | Ian Johnson | 26 April 1955 | Australia | West Indies | 3 | 22.2 | 44 | 7 | Australia won |
| 8 | Nasim-ul-Ghani | 13 March 1958 | Pakistan | West Indies | 2 | 41.4 | 116 | 5 | West Indies won |
| 9 | Lance Gibbs | 13 March 1958 | West Indies | Pakistan | 3 | 42 | 80 | 5 | West Indies won |
| 10 | Wes Hall | 9 March 1960 | West Indies | England | 1 | 30.2 | 90 | 6 | Drawn |
| 11 | Neil Hawke | 14 April 1965 | Australia | West Indies | 1 | 32 | 72 | 6 | West Indies won |
| 12 | Lance Gibbs | 14 April 1965 | West Indies | Australia | 4 | 22.2 | 29 | 6 | West Indies won |
| 13 | John Snow | 28 March 1968 | England | West Indies | 3 | 15.2 | 60 | 6 | Drawn |
| 14 | Lance Gibbs | 28 March 1968 | West Indies | England | 4 | 40 | 60 | 6 | Drawn |
| 15 | Doug Walters | 6 April 1973 | Australia | West Indies | 1 | 18.2 | 66 | 5 | Australia won |
| 16 | Joel Garner | 2 March 1984 | West Indies | Australia | 1 | 27.2 | 75 | 6 | Drawn |
| 17 | Imran Khan | 2 April 1988 | Pakistan | West Indies | 1 | 22.4 | 80 | 7 | Pakistan won |
| 18 | Arshad Ayub | 25 March 1989 | India | West Indies | 1 | 31 | 104 | 5 | Drawn |
| 19 | Allan Border | 23 March 1991 | Australia | West Indies | 2 | 30 | 68 | 5 | West Indies won |
| 20 | Vasbert Drakes | 10 April 2003 | West Indies | Australia | 2 | 26.1 | 93 | 5 | Australia won |
| 21 | Jason Gillespie | 10 April 2003 | Australia | West Indies | 3 | 20.2 | 39 | 5 | Australia won |