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.[1][2] 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.[1][a]
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.[3] This article details the five-wicket hauls taken on the ground in official international Test and One Day International (ODI) matches.[b]
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.[2]
Key
[edit]| 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
[edit]A total of 21 five-wicket hauls were taken on the ground, all of them in men's Test matches.
| 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[4] |
| 2 | Eric Hollies[A] | 14 February 1935 | England |
West Indies |
2 | 26 | 50 | 7 | Drawn[5] |
| 3 | John Goddard[B] | 3 March 1948 | West Indies |
England |
2 | 14.2 | 31 | 5 | West Indies won[6] |
| 4 | Wilfred Ferguson[B] | 3 March 1948 | West Indies |
England |
3 | 40 | 116 | 5 | West Indies won[6] |
| 5 | Alf Valentine | 11 March 1953 | West Indies |
 India |
1 | 53.5 | 127 | 5 | Drawn[7] |
| 6 | Sonny Ramadhin | 24 February 1954 | West Indies |
England |
1 | 67 | 113 | 6 | England won[8] |
| 7 | Ian Johnson[C] | 26 April 1955 |  Australia |
West Indies |
3 | 22.2 | 44 | 7 | Australia won[9] |
| 8 | Nasim-ul-Ghani[D] | 13 March 1958 |  Pakistan |
West Indies |
2 | 41.4 | 116 | 5 | West Indies won[10] |
| 9 | Lance Gibbs[D] | 13 March 1958 | West Indies |
Pakistan |
3 | 42 | 80 | 5 | West Indies won[10] |
| 10 | Wes Hall | 9 March 1960 | West Indies |
England |
1 | 30.2 | 90 | 6 | Drawn[11] |
| 11 | Neil Hawke[E] | 14 April 1965 | Australia |
West Indies |
1 | 32 | 72 | 6 | West Indies won[12] |
| 12 | Lance Gibbs[E] | 14 April 1965 | West Indies |
Australia |
4 | 22.2 | 29 | 6 | West Indies won |
| 13 | John Snow[F] | 28 March 1968 | England |
West Indies |
3 | 15.2 | 60 | 6 | Drawn[13] |
| 14 | Lance Gibbs[F] | 28 March 1968 | West Indies |
England |
4 | 40 | 60 | 6 | Drawn[13] |
| 15 | Doug Walters | 6 April 1973 | Australia |
West Indies |
1 | 18.2 | 66 | 5 | Australia won[14] |
| 16 | Joel Garner | 2 March 1984 | West Indies |
Australia |
1 | 27.2 | 75 | 6 | Drawn[15] |
| 17 | Imran Khan | 2 April 1988 | Pakistan |
West Indies |
1 | 22.4 | 80 | 7 | Pakistan won[16] |
| 18 | Arshad Ayub | 25 March 1989 | India |
West Indies |
1 | 31 | 104 | 5 | Drawn[17] |
| 19 | Allan Border | 23 March 1991 | Australia |
West Indies |
2 | 30 | 68 | 5 | West Indies won[18] |
| 20 | Vasbert Drakes[G] | 10 April 2003 | West Indies |
Australia |
2 | 26.1 | 93 | 5 | Australia won[19] |
| 21 | Jason Gillespie[G] | 10 April 2003 | Australia |
West Indies |
3 | 20.2 | 39 | 5 | Australia won[19] |
Notes
[edit]- ^ No women's international cricket has been staged at the ground.
- ^ West Indies play as a composite team selecting players from a number of Caribbean nations and dependencies, generally those which formed part of the British West Indies. These sides play Test, ODI and Twenty20 International cricket. The individual national sides of the countries which make up the West Indies, such as the Guyana cricket team, play regional cricket competitions at first-class level, a level below Test cricket. This list only details the five-wicket hauls taken in international cricket on the ground.
- ^ Hollies was the first player to take seven wickets in an innings on the ground.
- ^ a b Goddard and Ferguson took their five-wicket hauls during the same match, Goddard in England's first innings and Ferguson in their second after they had been asked to follow on.
- ^ Johnson's figures of 7/44 are the best innings bowling figures on the ground.[2]
- ^ a b Nasim-ul-Ghani and Gibbs took their five-wicket hauls in the same match.
- ^ a b Hawke and Gibbs took their five-wicket hauls in the same match.
- ^ a b Snow and Gibbs took their five-wicket hauls in the same match.
- ^ a b Drakes and Gillespie too their five wicket hauls in the same match.
References
[edit]- ^ a b Bourda, CricInfo. Retrieved 2020-01-06.
- ^ a b c Georgetown Cricket Club, Georgetown, CricketArchive. Retrieved 2020-01-06. (subscription required)
- ^ Pervez MA (2001) A Dictionary of Cricket, p.31. Hyderabad: Sangam Books (India). ISBN 978-81-7370-184-9
- ^ 3rd Test, England tour of West Indies at Georgetown, Feb 21-26 1930, CricInfo. Retrieved 2020-01-07.
- ^ 3rd Test, England tour of West Indies at Georgetown, Feb 14-18 1935, CricInfo. Retrieved 2020-01-07.
- ^ a b 3rd Test, England tour of West Indies at Georgetown, Mar 3-6 1948, CricInfo. Retrieved 2020-01-07.
- ^ 4th Test, India tour of West Indies at Georgetown, Mar 11-17 1953, CricInfo. Retrieved 2020-01-07.
- ^ 3rd Test, England tour of West Indies at Georgetown, Feb 24 - Mar 2 1954, CricInfo. Retrieved 2020-01-07.
- ^ 3rd Test, Australia tour of West Indies at Georgetown, Apr 26-29 1955, CricInfo. Retrieved 2020-01-07.
- ^ a b 4th Test, Pakistan tour of West Indies at Georgetown, Mar 13-19 1958, CricInfo. Retrieved 2020-01-07.
- ^ 4th Test, England tour of West Indies at Georgetown, Mar 9-15 1960, CricInfo. Retrieved 2020-01-07.
- ^ 3rd Test, Australia tour of West Indies at Georgetown, Apr 14-20 1965, CricInfo. Retrieved 2020-01-07.
- ^ a b 5th Test, England tour of West Indies at Georgetown, Mar 28 - Apr 3 1968, CricInfo. Retrieved 2020-01-07.
- ^ 4th Test, Australia tour of West Indies at Georgetown, Apr 6-11 1973, CricInfo. Retrieved 2020-01-07.
- ^ 1st Test, Australia tour of West Indies at Georgetown, Mar 2-7 1984, CricInfo. Retrieved 2020-01-07.
- ^ 1st Test, Pakistan tour of West Indies at Georgetown, Apr 2-6 1988, CricInfo. Retrieved 2020-01-07.
- ^ 1st Test, India tour of West Indies at Georgetown, Mar 25-30 1989, CricInfo. Retrieved 2020-01-07.
- ^ 2nd Test, Australia tour of West Indies at Georgetown, Mar 23-28 1991, CricInfo. Retrieved 2020-01-07.
- ^ a b 1st Test, Australia tour of West Indies at Georgetown, Apr 10-13 2003, CricInfo. Retrieved 2020-01-07.