List of international cricket five-wicket hauls by Rangana Herath

In cricket, a five-wicket haul (also known as a "fifer"^[1]) refers to a bowler taking five or more wickets in a single innings. This is regarded as a notable achievement,^[2] and as of September 2014 only 42 bowlers have taken 15 or more five-wicket hauls at the international level.^[3]

Rangana Herath (Sinhalese: රංගන හේරත්) is a Sri Lankan cricketer. A slow left arm orthodox bowler and a left handed batsman, he made his Test debut at Galle International Stadium, Sri Lanka against Australia in 1999. His One Day International debut came 5 years later in 2004, against Zimbabwe at Harare Sports Ground, Zimbabwe. Herath is currently ranked as the number three test match bowler in the world.^[4] Although Rangana Herath made his test debut back in 1999, he came to prominence as a leading spinner until the retirement of Muttiah Muralitharan. As of January 2015, Herath has 21 five-wicket hauls in Test matches and one in a T20 International, ranking him joint seventeenth among all-time combined five-wicket haul takers (joint with Malcolm Marshall, Allan Donald, Makhaya Ntini and Daniel Vettori), and second in the equivalent list for Sri Lanka, behind Muralitharan.^[3] Herath's best bowling figures are 9/127 against Bangladesh in 2014; this was only the 18th time in Test cricket history that a bowler has taken 9 or more wickets in an innings.^[5] Herath's best T20I figures of 5/3 are the third best ever in T20 Internationals.^[6]

Key

Key

Symbol	Meaning
Date	Day the Test started or ODI 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
Result	Result for the Sri Lanka team
♠	Herath was the man of the match
	10 or more wickets taken in the match

Test 5-wicket Hauls

Five-wicket hauls in Test cricket by Rangana Herath

No.	Date	Ground	Against	Inn	Overs	Runs	Wkts	Econ	Batsmen	Result
1	12 July 2009	Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu Stadium, Colombo	Pakistan	3	35	99	5	2.83	Khurram Manzoor Mohammad Yousuf Fawad Alam Shoaib Malik Umar Gul	Won[7]
2	20 July 2009	Sinhalese Sports Club Ground, Colombo	Pakistan	3	46	156	5	3.39	Khurram Manzoor Mohammad Yousuf Shoaib Malik Umar Gul Danish Kaneria	Won[8]
3	26 August 2009	Sinhalese Sports Club Ground, Colombo	New Zealand	3	48	139	5	2.89	Martin Guptill Ross Taylor Daniel Flynn Jesse Ryder Iain O'Brien	Won[9]
4	24 November 2009	Green Park Stadium, Kanpur	India	1	33	121	5	3.66	VVS Laxman MS Dhoni Harbhajan Singh Zaheer Khan Sreesanth	Lost[10]
5	31 August 2011	Galle International Stadium, Galle	Australia	3	23	79	5	3.43	Michael Clarke Michael Hussey Brad Haddin Mitchell Johnson Ryan Harris	Lost[11]
6	16 September 2011	Sinhalese Sports Club Ground, Colombo	Australia	3	52	157	7	3.01	Shane Watson Ricky Ponting Phillip Hughes Michael Clarke Brad Haddin Peter Siddle	Draw[12]
7	26 December 2011	Kingsmead Cricket Ground, Durban	South Africa	4	30.3	79	5	2.59	Jacques Kallis Mark Boucher AB de Villiers Dale Steyn Marchant de Lange	Won[13]
8	26 March 2012 ♠	Galle International Stadium, Galle	England	2	19	74	6	3.89	Jonathan Trott Andrew Strauss Matt Prior Samit Patel Stuart Broad Ian Bell	Won[14]
9	26 March 2012 ♠	Galle International Stadium, Galle	England	4	38	97	6	2.55	Alistair Cook Andrew Strauss Ian Bell Matt Prior Samit Patel Graeme Swann	Won[14]
10	3 April 2012	Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu Stadium, Colombo	England	2	53	133	6	2.50	Jonathan Trott Matt Prior Kevin Pietersen Tim Bresnan Graeme Swann James Anderson	Lost[15]
11	17 November 2012 ♠	Galle International Stadium, Galle	New Zealand	1	30	65	5	2.16	Brendon McCullum James Franklin Daniel Flynn Doug Bracewell Kruger van Wyk	Won[16]
12	17 November 2012 ♠	Galle International Stadium, Galle	New Zealand	3	18	43	6	2.38	Brendon McCullum Ross Taylor James Franklin Daniel Flynn Doug Bracewell Jeetan Patel	Won[16]
13	25 November 2012	Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu Stadium, Colombo	New Zealand	1	49	103	6	2.10	Brendon McCullum Ross Taylor Kane Williamson Todd Astle Tim Southee Daniel Flynn Trent Boult	Lost[17]
14	14 December 2012	Bellerive Oval, Hobart	Australia	3	21.5	95	5	4.35	David Warner Shane Watson Matthew Wade Nathan Lyon Ben Hilfenhaus	Lost[18]
15	16 March 2013 ♠	R. Premadasa Stadium, Colombo	Bangladesh	1	28.3	68	5	2.38	Mahmudullah Mushfiqur Rahim Mominul Haque Sohag Gazi Nasir Hossain	Won[19]
16	16 March 2013 ♠	R. Premadasa Stadium, Colombo	Bangladesh	3	36	89	7	2.47	Mohammad Ashraful Jahurul Islam Mahmudullah Mominul Haque Nasir Hossain Sohag Gazi Mushfiqur Rahim	Won[19]
17	16 January 2014	Sharjah Cricket Association Stadium, Sharjah	Pakistan	2	38.1	125	5	3.27	Younis Khan Ahmed Shehzad Sarfraz Ahmed Misbah-ul-Haq Junaid Khan	Lost[20]
18	24 July 2014	Sinhalese Sports Club Ground, Colombo	South Africa	4	45	40	5	0.88	Alviro Petersen Quinton de Kock AB de Villiers Faf du Plessis Dale Steyn	Drawn[21]
19	6 August 2014 ♠	Galle International Stadium, Galle	Pakistan	3	30.2	48	6	1.58	Khurram Manzoor Younis Khan Azhar Ali Asad Shafiq Mohammad Talha Junaid Khan	Won[22]
20	14 August 2014 ♠	Sinhalese Sports Club Ground, Colombo	Pakistan	2	33.1	127	9	3.82	Khurram Manzoor Azhar Ali Younis Khan Misbah-ul-Haq Asad Shafiq Abdur Rehman Wahab Riaz Sarfraz Ahmed Saeed Ajmal	Won[23]
21	14 August 2014 ♠	Sinhalese Sports Club Ground, Colombo	Pakistan	4	22.1	57	5	2.57	Azhar Ali Misbah-ul-Haq Younis Khan Asad Shafiq Wahab Riaz	Won[23]
22	15 August 2015	Galle International Stadium, Galle	India	4	21	48	7	2.28	Lokesh Rahul Ishant Sharma Rohit Sharma Wriddhiman Saha Harbhajan Singh Ravichandran Ashwin Ajinkya Rahane	Won[24]
23	15 October 2015	Galle International Stadium, Galle	West Indies	2	33	68	6	2.06	Kraigg Brathwaite Shai Hope Marlon Samuels Darren Bravo Kemar Roach Shannon Gabriel	Won[25]

Source:^[26] Correct as of 17 October 2015.

T20 International 5-wicket hauls

Five-wicket hauls in Test cricket by Rangana Herath

No.	Date	Ground	Against	Inn	Overs	Runs	Wkts	Econ	Batsmen	Result
1	31 March 2014	Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium, Chittagong	New Zealand	2	3.3	3	5	0.85	Brendon McCullum Ross Taylor James Neesham Luke Ronchi Trent Boult	Won[27]

Source:^[26] Correct as of 30 January 2015.

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