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, and , only 54 bowlers have taken 15 or more five-wicket hauls at international level in their cricketing careers. Nathan Lyon is a right-arm off-spinner who has represented Australia in Tests, One Day Internationals (ODI), and Twenty20 Internationals (T20I). , Lyon has taken 24 five-wicket hauls for his country across 128 Tests, 29 ODIs, and 2 T20Is.
Lyon made his Test debut against Sri Lanka at the Galle International Stadium on 31 August 2011, and became the 30th Australian cricketer to take a five-wicket haul on Test debut, taking 5 wickets for 34 runs in the first innings. In Test matches, Lyon has been most successful against India, taking 9 of his 24 five-wicket hauls against them. His best figures in an innings of 8/50 came against the same team, taken at the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru, on 4 March 2017. , his 527 wickets in Tests are the third-most for an Australian cricketer and seventh-highest across all cricketing nations.
Lyon's ODI debut was against Sri Lanka at the Adelaide Oval on 8 March 2012. , he is yet to take a five-wicket haul in the format, with his best figures being 4/44, taken against Zimbabwe at the Harare Sports Club on 31 August 2014. Lyon made his T20I debut against India on 29 January 2016 at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. His only wicket in the format, , was taken against Pakistan at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium on 28 October 2018.
, Lyon's tally of 24 five-wicket hauls is tied thirteenth in the all-time list across all formats and is fourth in the equivalent list for Australia. He has taken twelve five-wicket hauls in Asia, the most by a visiting spinner there.
A ten-wicket haul occurs when a bowler takes ten wickets in either across two innings in a two-innings match or, rarely, in a single innings. , Lyon has taken ten wickets in a match five times in Tests and is one of 19 players to take 5 or more ten-wicket hauls.
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Symbol Meaning Date Day the Test started Inn The innings of the match in which the five-wicket haul was taken Overs Number of overs bowled in that innings Runs Number of runs conceded Wkts Number of wickets taken Batsmen The batsmen whose wickets were taken in the five-wicket haul Econ Bowling economy rate (average runs per over) Result Result for Australia 10 wickets or more taken in the match Lyon was selected as man of the match
Test five-wicket hauls + Five-wicket hauls in Tests by Nathan LyonNo.DateGroundAgainstInnOversRunsWktsEconBatsmenResult 1 Galle International Stadium, Galle Kumar Sangakkara Angelo Mathews Rangana Herath Suraj Randiv Chanaka Welegedara Won 2 Queen's Park Oval, Port of Spain Narsingh Deonarine Shivnarine Chanderpaul Daren Sammy Shane Shillingford Kemar Roach Drawn 3 Feroz Shah Kotla Ground, Delhi Cheteshwar Pujara Virat Kohli Ajinkya Rahane Sachin Tendulkar Ravichandran Ashwin Ishant Sharma Pragyan Ojha Lost 4 Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne Ian Bell Ben Stokes Tim Bresnan Stuart Broad Kevin Pietersen Won 5 St George's Park, Port Elizabeth Faf du Plessis Dean Elgar AB de Villiers Wayne Parnell JP Duminy Lost 6 Adelaide Oval, Adelaide Cheteshwar Pujara Ajinkya Rahane Rohit Sharma Wriddhiman Saha Ishant Sharma Won 7 Adelaide Oval, Adelaide Cheteshwar Pujara Murali Vijay Ajinkya Rahane Rohit Sharma Wriddhiman Saha Virat Kohli Ishant Sharma Won 8 M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru Cheteshwar Pujara Virat Kohli Ajinkya Rahane Ravichandran Ashwin Wriddhiman Saha Ravindra Jadeja K. L. Rahul Ishant Sharma Lost 9 Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association Stadium, Dharamshala Cheteshwar Pujara Karun Nair Ajinkya Rahane Ravichandran Ashwin Kuldeep Yadav Lost 10 Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium, Dhaka Taijul Islam Imrul Kayes Shakib Al Hasan Sabbir Rahman Shafiul Islam Mehedi Hasan Lost 11 Zohur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium, Chattogram Tamim Iqbal Imrul Kayes Soumya Sarkar Mominul Haque Sabbir Rahman Mushfiqur Rahim Taijul Islam Won 12 Zohur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium, Chattogram Tamim Iqbal Imrul Kayes Shakib Al Hasan Sabbir Rahman Mominul Haque Taijul Islam Won 13 Adelaide Oval, Adelaide Virat Kohli Cheteshwar Pujara Rohit Sharma Rishabh Pant Ajinkya Rahane Mohammed Shami Lost 14 Perth Stadium, Perth Ajinkya Rahane Mohammed Shami Ishant Sharma Rishabh Pant Jasprit Bumrah Won 15 Edgbaston Cricket Ground, Birmingham Jason Roy Joe Denly Joe Root Ben Stokes Moeen Ali Stuart Broad Won 16 Adelaide Oval, Adelaide Shan Masood Asad Shafiq Iftikhar Ahmed Yasir Shah Shaheen Afridi Won 17 Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney Tom Blundell Jeet Raval William Somerville Neil Wagner Matt Henry Won 18 Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney Jeet Raval Glenn Phillips Colin de Grandhomme Todd Astle BJ Watling Won 19 Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore Imam-ul-Haq Azhar Ali Babar Azam Hasan Ali Shaheen Afridi Won 20 Galle International Stadium, Galle Dimuth Karunaratne Angelo Mathews Ramesh Mendis Niroshan Dickwella Lasith Embuldeniya Won 21 Perth Stadium, Perth Shamarh Brooks Jermaine Blackwood Kyle Mayers Kraigg Brathwaite Roston Chase Kemar Roach Won 22 Arun Jaitley Cricket Stadium, Delhi K. L. Rahul Rohit Sharma Cheteshwar Pujara Shreyas Iyer K. S. Bharat Lost 23 Holkar Stadium, Indore Shubman Gill Rohit Sharma Ravindra Jadeja K. S. Bharat Ravichandran Ashwin Cheteshwar Pujara Umesh Yadav Mohammed Siraj Won 24 Basin Reserve, Wellington Tom Latham Kane Williamson Rachin Ravindra Tom Blundell Glenn Phillips Tim Southee Won
Test ten-wicket hauls + Ten-wicket hauls in Tests by Nathan Lyon No. Figures Against Venue Date Result 1 12/286 Adelaide Oval, Adelaide Won 2 13/154 Zohur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium, Chattogram Won 3 10/118 Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney Won 4 11/99 Holkar Stadium, Indore Won 5 10/108 Basin Reserve, Wellington Won
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