List of international cricket five-wicket hauls by Nathan Lyon
# List of international cricket five-wicket hauls by Nathan Lyon

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 as of March 2022 only 49 bowlers have taken at least 15 five-wicket hauls at the 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). As of February 2023, Lyon has taken 23 five-wicket hauls for his country across 111 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 23 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. As of December 2022, his 446 wickets in Tests are the third-most for an Australian cricketer and eighth-highest across all cricketing nations.

Lyon's ODI debut was against Sri Lanka at the Adelaide Oval on 8 March 2012. As of March 2022, 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, as of March 2023, was taken against Pakistan at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium on 28 October 2018.

As of March 2023, Lyon's tally of 23 five-wicket hauls is tied twenty-fifth in the all-time list across all formats and is sixth in the equivalent list for Australia. He has taken ten 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. As of March 2022, Lyon has taken ten wickets in a match three times in Tests, one of 48 players to take 3 or more ten-wicket hauls and tied twenty-ninth highest in all cricketing nations.

## Key

| 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 |
| * | One of two five-wicket hauls by Lyon in a match |
| † | 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 Lyon :

| No. | Date | Ground | Against | Inn | Overs | Runs | Wkts | Econ | Batsmen | Result |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | 31 August 2011 | Galle International Stadium, Galle | Sri Lanka | 2 | 15 | 34 | 5 | 2.26 | Kumar Sangakkara Angelo Mathews Rangana Herath Suraj Randiv Chanaka Welegedara | Won |
| 2 | 15 April 2012 | Queen's Park Oval, Port of Spain | West Indies | 2 | 29 | 68 | 5 | 2.34 | Narsingh Deonarine Shivnarine Chanderpaul Daren Sammy Shane Shillingford Kemar Roach | Drawn |
| 3 | 22 March 2013 | Feroz Shah Kotla Ground, Delhi | India | 2 | 23.2 | 94 | 7 | 4.02 | Cheteshwar Pujara Virat Kohli Ajinkya Rahane Sachin Tendulkar Ravichandran Ashwin Ishant Sharma Pragyan Ojha | Lost |
| 4 | 26 December 2013 | Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne | England | 3 | 17 | 50 | 5 | 2.94 | Ian Bell Ben Stokes Tim Bresnan Stuart Broad Kevin Pietersen | Won |
| 5 | 20 February 2014 | St George's Park, Port Elizabeth | South Africa | 1 | 46 | 130 | 5 | 2.82 | Faf du Plessis Dean Elgar AB de Villiers Wayne Parnell JP Duminy | Lost |
| 6 | 9 December 2014 *†‡ | Adelaide Oval, Adelaide | India | 2 | 36 | 134 | 5 | 3.72 | Cheteshwar Pujara Ajinkya Rahane Rohit Sharma Wriddhiman Saha Ishant Sharma | Won |
| 7 | 9 December 2014 *†‡ | Adelaide Oval, Adelaide | India | 4 | 34.1 | 152 | 7 | 4.44 | Cheteshwar Pujara Murali Vijay Ajinkya Rahane Rohit Sharma Wriddhiman Saha Virat Kohli Ishant Sharma | Won |
| 8 | 4 March 2017 | M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru | India | 1 | 22.2 | 50 | 8 | 2.23 | Cheteshwar Pujara Virat Kohli Ajinkya Rahane Ravichandran Ashwin Wriddhiman Saha Ravindra Jadeja K. L. Rahul Ishant Sharma | Lost |
| 9 | 25 March 2017 | Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association Stadium, Dharamshala | India | 2 | 34.1 | 92 | 5 | 2.69 | Cheteshwar Pujara Karun Nair Ajinkya Rahane Ravichandran Ashwin Kuldeep Yadav | Lost |
| 10 | 27 August 2017 | Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium, Dhaka | Bangladesh | 3 | 34.3 | 82 | 6 | 2.37 | Taijul Islam Imrul Kayes Shakib Al Hasan Sabbir Rahman Shafiul Islam Mehedi Hasan | Lost |
| 11 | 4 September 2017 *†‡ | Zohur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium, Chattogram | Bangladesh | 1 | 36.2 | 94 | 7 | 2.58 | Tamim Iqbal Imrul Kayes Soumya Sarkar Mominul Haque Sabbir Rahman Mushfiqur Rahim Taijul Islam | Won |
| 12 | 4 September 2017 *†‡ | Zohur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium, Chattogram | Bangladesh | 3 | 33 | 60 | 6 | 1.81 | Tamim Iqbal Imrul Kayes Shakib Al Hasan Sabbir Rahman Mominul Haque Taijul Islam | Won |
| 13 | 6 December 2018 | Adelaide Oval, Adelaide | India | 3 | 42 | 122 | 6 | 2.90 | Virat Kohli Cheteshwar Pujara Rohit Sharma Rishabh Pant Ajinkya Rahane Mohammed Shami | Lost |
| 14 | 14 December 2018 ‡ | Perth Stadium, Perth | India | 2 | 34.5 | 67 | 5 | 1.92 | Ajinkya Rahane Mohammed Shami Ishant Sharma Rishabh Pant Jasprit Bumrah | Won |
| 15 | 1 August 2019 | Edgbaston Cricket Ground, Birmingham | England | 4 | 20 | 49 | 6 | 2.45 | Jason Roy Joe Denly Joe Root Ben Stokes Moeen Ali Stuart Broad | Won |
| 16 | 29 November 2019 | Adelaide Oval, Adelaide | Pakistan | 3 | 25 | 69 | 5 | 2.76 | Shan Masood Asad Shafiq Iftikhar Ahmed Yasir Shah Shaheen Afridi | Won |
| 17 | 3 January 2020 *† | Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney | New Zealand | 2 | 30.4 | 68 | 5 | 2.21 | Tom Blundell Jeet Raval William Somerville Neil Wagner Matt Henry | Won |
| 18 | 3 January 2020 *† | Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney | New Zealand | 4 | 16.5 | 50 | 5 | 2.97 | Jeet Raval Glenn Phillips Colin de Grandhomme Todd Astle BJ Watling | Won |
| 19 | 25 March 2022 | Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore | Pakistan | 4 | 37 | 83 | 5 | 2.24 | Imam-ul-Haq Azhar Ali Babar Azam Hasan Ali Shaheen Afridi | Won |
| 20 | 29 June 2022 | Galle International Stadium, Galle | Sri Lanka | 1 | 25 | 90 | 5 | 3.60 | Dimuth Karunaratne Angelo Mathews Ramesh Mendis Niroshan Dickwella Lasith Embuldeniya | Won |
| 21 | 30 November 2022 | Perth Stadium, Perth | West Indies | 4 | 42.5 | 128 | 6 | 2.98 | Shamarh Brooks Jermaine Blackwood Kyle Mayers Kraigg Brathwaite Roston Chase Kemar Roach | Won |
| 22 | 17 February 2023 | Arun Jaitley Cricket Stadium, Delhi | India | 2 | 29 | 67 | 5 | 2.31 | K. L. Rahul Rohit Sharma Cheteshwar Pujara Shreyas Iyer K. S. Bharat | Lost |
| 23 | 1 March 2023 †‡ | Holkar Stadium, Indore | India | 3 | 23.3 | 64 | 8 | 2.72 | Shubman Gill Rohit Sharma Ravindra Jadeja K. S. Bharat Ravichandran Ashwin Cheteshwar Pujara Umesh Yadav Mohammed Siraj | Won |

## Test ten-wicket hauls

Ten-wicket hauls in Tests by Nathan Lyon :

| No. | Figures | Against | Venue | Date | Result |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | 12/286 | India | Adelaide Oval, Adelaide | 9 December 2014 | Won |
| 2 | 13/154 | Bangladesh | Zohur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium, Chattogram | 4 September 2017 | Won |
| 3 | 10/118 | New Zealand | Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney | 3 January 2020 | Won |
| 4 | 11/99 | India | Holkar Stadium, Indore | 1 March 2023 | Won |
