Lasith Malinga tossing a cricket ball at practice

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five-wicket haul In cricket, a five-wicket haul (also known as a "five–for" or "fifer") occurs when a bowler takes five or more wickets in a single innings. This is regarded by critics as a notable achievement, equivalent to a century from a batsman. Takin ...

(also known as a "five–for" or "fifer") refers to a bowler taking five or more wickets in a single

innings An innings is one of the divisions of a cricket match during which one team takes its turn to bat. Innings also means the period in which an individual player bats (acts as either striker or nonstriker). Innings, in cricket, and rounders, is bot ...

. There have been 16 instances of a bowler taking a five-wicket haul in

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games. The Asia Cup is a either

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format (50 overs) and Twenty20 International

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,

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and 2004 tournaments. The

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lead the list with nine five-wicket hauls Ajantha 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

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, 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

of the match in which the

was taken * Overs –

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bowled in the innings * Runs – Runs conceded in the innings * Wkts – Batsmen whose wickets were taken in the innings * Econ – Runs conceded per

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* 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

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Key

Five-wicket hauls

Five-wicket hauls (T20I)

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