# List of international five-wicket hauls at the National Stadium

The National Bank Cricket Arena is a cricket ground in Karachi, Pakistan. The first Test match played at the National Stadium was in 1955 between Pakistan and India. The most recent Test match hosted by the ground, was played in December 2022. The ground has also hosted 48 One Day Internationals (ODIs), the first of these was in 1980 between Pakistan and the West Indies.
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.
54 five-wicket hauls in Tests have been taken at the ground. Indian Gulabrai Ramchand took the first fifer on the ground in 1955. Imran Khan's 8/60 in 1982 against India are the best bowling figures in an innings.
7 five-wicket hauls in ODIs have been taken at the ground. Waqar Younis took the five-for on the ground in 1990. Ajantha Mendis's 6/13 in 2008 against India in 2008 Asia Cup are the best bowling figures in an innings.
The stadium also maintains an honour board.

## Key

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

## Test Match five-wicket hauls

    As of 30 December 2022
Five-wicket hauls in Test matches at National Stadium, Karachi :
| No. | Bowler | Date | Team | Opposing Team | Inn | O | R | W | Econ | Result | Batsmen |
| 1 | Gulabrai Ramchand | 26 February 1955 | India | Pakistan | 1 | 28 | 49 | 6 | 1.75 | Drawn | Waqar Hasan Alimuddin Maqsood Ahmed Abdul Kardar Shujauddin Mahmood Hussain |
| 2 | Khan Mohammad | 26 February 1955 | Pakistan | India | 2 | 28 | 73 | 5 | 2.61 | Drawn | Pananmal Punjabi Vijay Manjrekar Pankaj Roy Prakash Bhandari Jasubhai Patel |
| 3 | Fazal Mahmood | 26 February 1955 | Pakistan | India | 2 | 28.3 | 48 | 5 | 1.68 | Drawn | Polly Umrigar Vinoo Mankad Naren Tamhane Gulabrai Ramchand Subhash Gupte |
| 4 | Zulfiqar Ahmed | 13 October 1955 | Pakistan | New Zealand | 1 | 37.2 | 37 | 5 | 0.99 | Won | Bert Sutcliffe Matt Poore Jack Alabaster Tony MacGibbon Alex Moir |
| 5 | Zulfiqar Ahmed | 13 October 1955 | Pakistan | New Zealand | 3 | 46.3 | 42 | 6 | 0.90 | Won | John Reid Gordon Leggat Harry Cave Tony MacGibbon Alex Moir Jack Alabaster |
| 6 | Fazal Mahmood | 11 October 1956 | Pakistan | Australia | 1 | 27 | 34 | 6 | 1.26 | Won | Jim Burke Neil Harvey Colin McDonald Ian Craig Keith Miller Richie Benaud |
| 7 | Fazal Mahmood | 11 October 1956 | Pakistan | Australia | 3 | 48 | 80 | 7 | 1.67 | Won | Colin McDonald Neil Harvey Jim Burke Ian Craig Richie Benaud Ray Lindwall Ian Johnson |
| 8 | Richie Benaud | 4 December 1959 | Australia | Pakistan | 1 | 49.5 | 93 | 5 | 1.87 | Drawn | Shujauddin Duncan Sharpe Fazal Mahmood Ijaz Butt Munir Malik |
| 9 | Fazal Mahmood | 4 December 1959 | Pakistan | Australia | 2 | 30.2 | 74 | 5 | 2.44 | Drawn | Gavin Stevens Ken Mackay Les Favell Neil Harvey Ray Lindwall |
| 10 | Antao D'Souza | 2 February 1962 | Pakistan | England | 2 | 57.5 | 112 | 5 | 1.94 | Drawn | Ted Dexter Peter Parfitt David Allen Barry Knight Butch White |
| 11 | Graham McKenzie | 24 October 1964 | Australia | Pakistan | 1 | 30 | 69 | 6 | 2.30 | Drawn | Billy Ibadulla Hanif Mohammad Shafqat Rana Javed Burki Intikhab Alam Asif Iqbal |
| 12 | Hedley Howarth | 24 October 1969 | New Zealand | Pakistan | 1 | 33 | 80 | 5 | 2.42 | Drawn | Hanif Mohammad Younis Ahmed Sadiq Mohammad Intikhab Alam Asif Iqbal |
| 13 | Mohammad Nazir | 24 October 1969 | Pakistan | New Zealand | 2 | 30.1 | 99 | 7 | 3.28 | Drawn | Graham Dowling Bruce Murray Brian Hastings Vic Pollard Mark Burgess Bob Cunis Hedley Howarth |
| 14 | Pervez Sajjad | 24 October 1969 | Pakistan | New Zealand | 4 | 24 | 33 | 5 | 1.37 | Drawn | Bruce Murray Graham Dowling Bevan Congdon Brian Hastings Mark Burgess |
| 15 | Norman Gifford | 24 March 1973 | England | Pakistan | 3 | 29 | 55 | 5 | 1.90 | Drawn | Majid Khan Zaheer Abbas Talat Ali Asif Iqbal Sadiq Mohammad |
| 16 | Jack Birkenshaw | 24 March 1973 | England | Pakistan | 3 | 18.3 | 57 | 5 | 3.08 | Drawn | Mushtaq Mohammad Intikhab Alam Saleem Altaf Wasim Bari Asif Masood |
| 17 | Phil Edmonds | 18 January 1978 | England | Pakistan | 2 | 33 | 66 | 7 | 2.00 | Drawn | Haroon Rasheed Mudassar Nazar Javed Miandad Wasim Raja Abdul Qadir Sarfraz Nawaz Iqbal Qasim |
| 18 | Sarfraz Nawaz | 14 November 1978 | Pakistan | India | 3 | 24 | 70 | 5 | 2.92 | Won | Chetan Chauhan Gundappa Viswanath Sunil Gavaskar Kapil Dev B. S. Chandrasekhar |
| 19 | Ray Bright | 27 February 1980 | Australia | Pakistan | 2 | 46.5 | 87 | 7 | 1.86 | Lost | Haroon Rasheed Zaheer Abbas Taslim Arif Mudassar Nazar Sarfraz Nawaz Majid Khan Tauseef Ahmed |
| 20 | Iqbal Qasim | 27 February 1980 | Pakistan | Australia | 3 | 42 | 49 | 7 | 1.17 | Won | Graham Yallop Bruce Laird David Hookes Rod Marsh Graeme Beard Ray Bright Dennis Lillee |
| 21 | Abdul Qadir | 22 September 1982 | Pakistan | Australia | 3 | 26 | 76 | 5 | 2.92 | Won | John Dyson Graeme Wood Allan Border Kim Hughes Bruce Yardley |
| 22 | Kapil Dev | 23 December 1982 | India | Pakistan | 2 | 28.5 | 102 | 5 | 3.54 | Lost | Zaheer Abbas Imran Khan Mudassar Nazar Abdul Qadir Sarfraz Nawaz |
| 23 | Imran Khan | 23 December 1982 | Pakistan | India | 3 | 20.1 | 60 | 8 | 2.98 | Won | Sunil Gavaskar Gundappa Viswanath Mohinder Amarnath Sandeep Patil Kapil Dev Dilip Vengsarkar Maninder Singh Dilip Doshi |
| 24 | Abdul Qadir | 2 March 1984 | Pakistan | England | 1 | 31 | 74 | 5 | 2.39 | Won | Derek Randall Ian Botham Bob Taylor David Gower Nick Cook |
| 25 | Nick Cook | 2 March 1984 | England | Pakistan | 2 | 30 | 65 | 6 | 2.17 | Lost | Qasim Umar Rameez Raja Mohsin Khan Wasim Raja Sarfraz Nawaz Azeem Hafeez |
| 26 | Nick Cook | 2 March 1984 | England | Pakistan | 4 | 14 | 18 | 5 | 1.29 | Lost | Qasim Umar Mohsin Khan Zaheer Abbas Wasim Raja Abdul Qadir |
| 27 | Abdul Qadir | 7 November 1985 | Pakistan | Sri Lanka | 1 | 20.5 | 44 | 5 | 2.11 | Won | Ravi Ratnayeke Duleep Mendis Aravinda de Silva Ashantha de Mel Roger Wijesuriya |
| 28 | Ashantha de Mel | 7 November 1985 | Sri Lanka | Pakistan | 2 | 22 | 109 | 6 | 4.96 | Lost | Mohsin Khan Qasim Umar Mudassar Nazar Saleem Malik Javed Miandad Rameez Raja |
| 29 | Tauseef Ahmed | 7 November 1985 | Pakistan | Sri Lanka | 3 | 23.2 | 54 | 5 | 2.31 | Won | Asanka Gurusinha Ranjan Madugalle Ashantha de Mel Aravinda de Silva Rumesh Ratnayake |
| 30 | Imran Khan | 20 November 1986 | Pakistan | West Indies | 3 | 22.3 | 46 | 6 | 2.04 | Drawn | Viv Richards Roger Harper Malcolm Marshall Clyde Butts Tony Gray Courtney Walsh |
| 31 | Abdul Qadir | 16 December 1987 | Pakistan | England | 1 | 49.4 | 88 | 5 | 1.77 | Drawn | Bill Athey Mike Gatting Phil DeFreitas Nick Cook David Capel |
| 32 | Phillip DeFreitas | 16 December 1987 | England | Pakistan | 2 | 23.5 | 86 | 5 | 3.61 | Drawn | Mudassar Nazar Saleem Malik Wasim Akram Iqbal Qasim Saleem Jaffar |
| 33 | Abdul Qadir | 16 December 1987 | Pakistan | England | 3 | 55 | 98 | 5 | 1.78 | Drawn | Chris Broad Neil Fairbrother David Capel Phil DeFreitas Nick Cook |
| 34 | Iqbal Qasim | 15 September 1988 | Pakistan | Australia | 2 | 39 | 35 | 5 | 0.90 | Won | Geoff Marsh Dean Jones Allan Border Steve Waugh Bruce Reid |
| 35 | Manoj Prabhakar | 15 November 1989 | India | Pakistan | 1 | 34.5 | 104 | 5 | 2.98 | Drawn | Rameez Raja Saleem Yousuf Wasim Akram Abdul Qadir Waqar Younis |
| 36 | Waqar Younis | 15 November 1990 | Pakistan | West Indies | 1 | 22 | 76 | 5 | 3.45 | Won | Gordon Greenidge Carl Hooper Jeff Dujon Malcolm Marshall Curtly Ambrose |
| 37 | Wasim Akram | 28 September 1994 | Pakistan | Australia | 3 | 22 | 63 | 5 | 2.86 | Won | Michael Bevan Steve Waugh Ian Healy Jo Angel Tim May |
| 38 | Shane Warne | 28 September 1994 | Australia | Pakistan | 4 | 36.1 | 89 | 5 | 2.46 | Lost | Zahid Fazal Akram Raza Wasim Akram Basit Ali Waqar Younis |
| 39 | Saqlain Mushtaq | 6 December 1997 | Pakistan | West Indies | 1 | 24 | 54 | 5 | 2.25 | Won | Brian Lara Sherwin Campbell Roland Holder Ian Bishop Courtney Walsh |
| 40 | Mervyn Dillon | 6 December 1997 | West Indies | Pakistan | 2 | 29.4 | 111 | 5 | 3.74 | Lost | Saeed Anwar Inzamam-ul-Haq Mohammad Wasim Ijaz Ahmed Waqar Younis |
| 41 | Shahid Afridi | 22 October 1998 | Pakistan | Australia | 1 | 23.3 | 52 | 5 | 2.21 | Drawn | Mark Waugh Steve Waugh Darren Lehmann Gavin Robertson Glenn McGrath |
| 42 | Glenn McGrath | 22 October 1998 | Australia | Pakistan | 2 | 25 | 66 | 5 | 2.64 | Drawn | Shahid Afridi Ijaz Ahmed Inzamam-ul-Haq Moin Khan Shakeel Ahmed |
| 43 | Shabbir Ahmed | 20 August 2003 | Pakistan | Bangladesh | 3 | 18.1 | 48 | 5 | 2.64 | Won | Sanwar Hossain Rajin Saleh Khaled Mahmud Tapash Baisya Mohammad Rafique |
| 44 | Abdul Razzaq | 28 October 2004 | Pakistan | Sri Lanka | 1 | 23.1 | 35 | 5 | 1.51 | Won | Thilan Samaraweera Jehan Mubarak Chaminda Vaas Farveez Maharoof Rangana Herath |
| 45 | Danish Kaneria | 28 October 2004 | Pakistan | Sri Lanka | 3 | 60 | 118 | 7 | 1.97 | Won | Marvan Atapattu Sanath Jayasuriya Mahela Jayawardene Thilan Samaraweera Jehan Mubarak Romesh Kaluwitharana Farveez Maharoof |
| 46 | Irfan Pathan | 29 January 2006 | India | Pakistan | 1 | 17.1 | 61 | 5 | 3.55 | Lost | Salman Butt Younis Khan Mohammad Yousuf Kamran Akmal Shoaib Akhtar |
| 47 | Paul Harris | 1 October 2007 | South Africa | Pakistan | 2 | 36 | 73 | 5 | 2.03 | Won | Kamran Akmal Mohammad Hafeez Salman Butt Shoaib Malik Umar Gul |
| 48 | Dale Steyn | 1 October 2007 | South Africa | Pakistan | 4 | 15 | 56 | 5 | 3.73 | Won | Mohammad Hafeez Salman Butt Younis Khan Abdul Rehman Umar Gul |
| 49 | Shaheen Shah Afridi | 19 December 2019 | Pakistan | Sri Lanka | 2 | 26.5 | 77 | 5 | 2.87 | Won | Oshada Fernando Angelo Mathews Dhananjaya de Silva Dilruwan Perera Lahiru Kumara |
| 50 | Naseem Shah | 19 December 2019 | Pakistan | Sri Lanka | 4 | 12.5 | 31 | 5 | 2.42 | Won | Kusal Mendis Dinesh Chandimal Dilruwan Perera Lasith Embuldeniya Vishwa Fernando |
| 51 | Nauman Ali | 26 January 2021 | Pakistan | South Africa | 3 | 25.3 | 35 | 5 | 1.37 | Won | Aiden Markram George Linde Kagiso Rabada Anrich Nortje Temba Bavuma |
| 52 | Rehan Ahmed | 17 December 2022 | England | Pakistan | 3 | 14.5 | 48 | 5 | 3.23 | Won | Babar Azam Mohammad Rizwan Saud Shakeel Mohammad Wasim Agha Salman |
| 53 | Abrar Ahmed | 26 December 2022 | Pakistan | New Zealand | 2 | 67.5 | 205 | 5 | 3.02 | Drawn | Tom Latham Daryl Mitchell Michael Bracewell Ish Sodhi Neil Wagner |
| 54 | Ish Sodhi | 30 December 2022 | New Zealand | Pakistan | 2 | 36.5 | 86 | 6 | 2.33 | Drawn | Shan Masood Babar Azam Sarfaraz Ahmed Agha Salman Imam-ul-Haq Mohammad Wasim |

## One Day International five-wicket hauls

    As of 10 January 2023
Five-wicket hauls in One Day International matches at National Stadium, Karachi :
| No. | Bowler | Date | Team | Opposing Team | Inn | O | R | W | Econ | Result | Batsmen |
| 1 | Waqar Younis | 9 November 1990 | Pakistan | West Indies | 2 | 8 | 52 | 5 | 6.5 | Won | Richie Richardson Gus Logie Desmond Haynes Brian Lara Carl Hooper |
| 2 | Wasim Akram | 24 December 1993 | Pakistan | Zimbabwe | 1 | 7 | 15 | 5 | 2.14 | Won | Andy Flower Alistair Campbell Eddo Brandes Stephen Peall Heath Streak |
| 3 | Shoaib Akhtar | 21 April 2002 | Pakistan | New Zealand | 2 | 9 | 16 | 6 | 1.77 | Won | Craig McMillan Jacob Oram Robbie Hart Andre Adams Brooke Walker Ian Butler |
| 4 | Sohail Tanvir | 29 June 2008 | Pakistan | Sri Lanka | 1 | 10 | 48 | 5 | 4.80 | Lost | Sanath Jayasuriya Mahela Jayawardene Chamara Silva Kumar Sangakkara Thilan Thushara |
| 5 | Muttiah Muralitharan | 30 June 2008 | Sri Lanka | Bangladesh | 2 | 10 | 31 | 5 | 3.10 | Won | Mushfiqur Rahim Alok Kapali Raqibul Hasan Abdur Razzak Mashrafe Mortaza |
| 6 | Ajantha Mendis | 6 July 2008 | Sri Lanka | India | 2 | 8 | 13 | 6 | 1.62 | Won | Virender Sehwag Yuvraj Singh Suresh Raina Rohit Sharma Irfan Pathan RP Singh |
| 7 | Usman Shinwari | 30 September 2019 | Pakistan | Sri Lanka | 2 | 10 | 51 | 5 | 5.10 | Won | Sadeera Samarawickrama Avishka Fernando Lahiru Thirimanne Shehan Jayasuriya Isuru Udana |
| 8 | Naseem Shah | 9 January 2023 | Pakistan | New Zealand | 1 | 10 | 57 | 5 | 5.70 | Won | Devon Conway Glenn Phillips Michael Bracewell Henry Shipley Mitchell Santner |