cricket Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by striki ...

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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 ...

. A five-wicket haul on debut is regarded by the critics as a notable achievement. As of May 2021, 159 cricketers have taken a five-wicket haul on Test match debut, out of which twenty-four were from the South Africa national cricket team. The five-wicket hauls have come against six different opponents, and the South Africans have performed this feat fifteen times against England. Of the twenty-two matches where a South African debutant has taken a five-wicket haul, twelve have ended in defeat, six in victory and the other four in a draw. The five-wicket hauls were taken at eleven different venues, with six of them being taken at the

Newlands Cricket Ground Newlands Cricket Ground (known as Six Gun Grill Newlands for sponsorship reasons) in Cape Town is a South African cricket ground. It is the home of the Cape Cobras, who play in the Sunfoil Series, Momentum 1 Day Cup and RamSlam Pro20 competit ...

, Cape Town.

Albert Rose-Innes Albert Rose-Innes (16 February 1868 – 22 November 1946), was a South African cricketer who played in South Africa's first two Test matches. Life and career A slow left-arm spin bowler and useful batsman, Rose-Innes played for the Port Elizab ...

was the first South African to take a five-wicket haul on Test cricket debut. He took 5 wickets for 43 runs against England in 1889. In the second Test of the series, Gobo Ashley took 7 wickets for 95 runs, in what turned out to be his only appearance in Test cricket. When the country was re-admitted to play competitive cricket in 1991,

Lance Klusener Lance Klusener (born 4 September 1971) is an international cricket coach and former cricketer of South Africa. He was known for his aggressive batting and fast-medium swing bowling. Klusener was one of the best all-rounders in the world during ...

became the first debutant to take a five-wicket haul. His 8 wickets for 64 runs against India in November 1996 remain the best

bowling figures In cricket, a bowling analysis (sometimes shortened to just analysis, especially in the phrase innings analysis, and also referred to as bowling figures) usually refers to a notation summarising a bowler's performance in terms of overs bowled, h ...

in an innings by a South African on debut.

Sydney Burke Sydney Frank Burke (11 March 1934 – 3 April 2017) was a South African cricketer who played in two Test matches, one in each of 1962 and 1965. Biography Born in Pretoria, Transvaal, Burke was a middle to lower order right-handed batsma ...

and

Alf Hall Alfred Ewart Hall (23 January 1896 in Bolton, Lancashire, England – 1 January 1964 in The Hill, South Africa) was a South African cricketer who played in seven Tests from 1923 to 1931. Alf Hall's appearances in first-class cricket were lim ...

are the only South African debutants to collect 10 or more wickets in a match as of February 2015. Klusener's figures, along with George Bissett's 5 for 37 runs, were included among the "Top 100 Bowling performances of all time" by the '' Wisden Cricketers' Almanack'' in 2002.

Beuran Hendricks Beuran Eric Hendricks (born 8 June 1990) is a South African cricketer who plays as a left-arm fast-medium bowler and left-handed batter for Western Province. He made his international debut for South Africa in March 2014. Domestic career Follo ...

is the most recent South African cricketer to achieve this feat, taking figures of 5 wickets for 64 runs against England in January 2020.

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