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. There have been 16 instances of a bowler taking a five-wicket haul in Asia Cup games. The Asia Cup is an either One Day International format (50 overs) and Twenty20 International cricket format (20 overs) tournament organised by the Asian Cricket Council, a subordinate of the International Cricket Council (ICC). Originally started as a biennial tournament in 1984, it has since been organised 16 times as of the latest edition in 2023.
The first five-wicket haul in the tournament was taken by India's Arshad Ayub in the 1988 tournamenthe took five wickets for 21 runs against Pakistan. In the 1995 edition, Pakistan's Aaqib Javed took five wickets for 19 runs against India. These two bowling figures feature in the "Top 100 ODI bowling performances of all time", a list compiled and released by the Wisden Cricketers' Almanack in 2002. No five-wicket hauls were taken in the 1990–91, 2000 and 2004 tournaments.
The Sri Lankans lead the list with nine five-wicket haulsAjantha Mendis and Lasith Malinga are the only bowlers to have taken more than one five-wicket haul in the tournament's history. The former achieved the feat two times, both in 2008, while the latter has done it three timesonce in the 2010 tournament and two times in 2014. Mendis' six wickets for 13 runs against India in the final of the 2008 edition is the best by any bowler across all tournaments. India's Bhuvneshwar Kumar is the only bowler to have five-wicket haul in T20 Asia Cup.
Key Inn – The innings of the match in which the five-wicket haul was taken Overs – Overs bowled in the innings Runs – Runs conceded in the innings Wkts – Batsmen whose wickets were taken in the innings Econ – Runs conceded per over Won – The match was won by the bowler's team Lost – The match was lost by the bowler's team Tied – The match ended in a tie
Five-wicket hauls + Asia Cup five-wicket hauls No. Bowler Date Team Opponent Venue Inn Overs Runs Wkts EconBatsmen Result 1 Bangabandhu National Stadium, Dhaka, Bangladesh Rameez Raja Aamer Malik Shoaib Mohammad Naved Anjum Wasim Akram Won 2 Sharjah Cricket Association Stadium, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates Manoj Prabhakar Sachin Tendulkar Mohammad Azharuddin Vinod Kambli Javagal Srinath Won 3 R. Premadasa Stadium, Colombo, Sri Lanka Athar Ali Khan Aminul Islam Bulbul Akram Khan Khaled Mashud Saiful Islam Won 4 (1/2) Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore, Pakistan Saqib Ali Nizel Fernandes Alawi Shukri Fahad Alhashmi Aman Ali Won 5 National Stadium, Karachi, Pakistan Sanath Jayasuriya Kumar Sangakkara Mahela Jayawardene Chamara Silva Thilan Thushara Lost 6 National Stadium, Karachi, Pakistan Raqibul Hasan Mushfiqur Rahim Alok Kapali Abdur Razzak Mashrafe Mortaza Won 7 (2/2) National Stadium, Karachi, Pakistan Virender Sehwag Suresh Raina Yuvraj Singh Rohit Sharma Irfan Pathan RP Singh Won 8 (1/3) Rangiri Dambulla International Stadium, Dambulla, Sri Lanka Salman Butt Umar Amin Mohammad Amir Shoaib Akhtar Mohammad Asif Won 9 Rangiri Dambulla International Stadium, Dambulla, Sri Lanka Virat Kohli Ravindra Jadeja Praveen Kumar Zaheer Khan Ashok Dinda Won 10 (2/3) Khan Shaheb Osman Ali Stadium, Fatullah, Bangladesh Misbah-ul-Haq Shahid Afridi Bilawal Bhatti Umar Gul Saeed Ajmal Won 11 (3/3) Shere Bangla National Stadium, Dhaka, Bangladesh Sharjeel Khan Ahmed Shehzad Mohammad Hafeez Misbah-ul-Haq Umar Akmal Won 12 Sheikh Zayed Cricket Stadium, Abu Dhabi, UAE Hashmatullah Shahidi Najibullah Zadran Gulbadin Naib Rashid Khan Mujeeb Ur Rahman Lost 13 R. Premadasa Stadium, Colombo, Sri Lanka Fakhar Zaman Salman Ali Agha Iftikhar Ahmed Shadab Khan Faheem Ashraf Won 14 R. Premadasa Stadium, Colombo, Sri Lanka Rohit Sharma Shubman Gill Virat Kohli K. L. Rahul Hardik Pandya Lost 15 R. Premadasa Stadium, Colombo, Sri Lanka Pathum Nissanka Kusal Mendis Sadeera Samarawickrama Charith Asalanka Dhananjaya de Silva Dasun Shanaka Won
Five-wicket hauls (T20I) + Asia Cup five-wicket hauls (T20) No. Bowler Date Team Opponent Venue Inn Overs Runs Wkts EconBatsmen Result 1 Dubai International Cricket Stadium, Dubai Hazratullah Zazai Rahmanullah Gurbaz Karim Janat Najibullah Zadran Azmatullah Omarzai Won Updated: 11 September 2022
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