Lancaster Park, formerly also known as AMI Stadium, is a 13,000 capacity cricket stadium situated in a suburb of Christchurch in New Zealand. The stadium is currently closed due to damage sustained in the February 2011 Christchurch earthquake. The Hadlee Stand has been demolished and the fate of the rest of the stadium is unresolved. It was New Zealand's oldest Test cricket venue before it was demolished. The ground was the venue for 40 men's Test matches, 48 One-Day Internationals (ODI) and four Twenty20 Internationals (T20I). The first Test match at the ground was between New Zealand and England on 10 January 1930, with the first ODI between New Zealand and Pakistan in February 1973 and the first T20I was played in February 2008 between New Zealand and England. Two women's Test matches have been played on the ground, the first in 1935, as well as seven women's ODIs and one women's T20I.
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. [1]
The first bowler to take a five-wicket haul in a Test match at Lancaster Park was Maurice Allom, who took five wickets for 38 runs for England against New Zealand in 1930. Phil Tufnell of England has the best Test match innings bowling figures on the ground, taking 7/47 in 1992, [2] whilst fellow Englishman Derek Underwood has the best match figures on the ground, taking 12/97 in 1971. [3]
The first five-wicket haul in an ODI on the ground was achieved by Richard Collinge who took 5 for 23 for New Zealand against India in 1976. [4] Australian Simon O'Donnell recorded the best ODI bowling figures at the venue with 5/13 against New Zealand in 1990. [5]
Symbol | Meaning |
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Date | Day the Test started or ODI was held |
Inn | Innings in which five-wicket haul was taken |
O | Number of overs bowled |
R | Number of runs conceded |
W | Number of wickets taken |
Result | Result of the match |
There have been 44 five-wicket hauls taken in men's Test matches and two in women's Tests on the ground.
No. | Bowler | Date | Team | Opposing team | Inn | O | R | W | Result |
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1 | Myrtle Maclagan | 16 February 1935 | England | New Zealand | 1 | 14.2 | 22 | 5 | England won [37] |
2 | Mary Duggan [upper-alpha 18] | 29 November 1957 | England | New Zealand | 1 | 40 | 55 | 6 | Drawn [38] |
A total of five five-wicket hauls have been taken in One Day International matches on the ground.
No. | Bowler | Date | Team | Opposing team | Inn | O | R | W | Result |
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1 | Richard Collinge [upper-alpha 19] | 21 February 1976 | New Zealand | India | 1 | 7 | 23 | 5 | New Zealand won [4] |
2 | Richard Hadlee | 18 February 1984 | New Zealand | England | 1 | 10 | 32 | 5 | England won [39] |
3 | Terry Alderman | 3 March 1990 [lower-alpha 3] | Australia | India | 2 | 10 | 32 | 5 | Australia won [41] |
4 | Simon O'Donnell [upper-alpha 20] | 4 March 1990 [lower-alpha 3] | Australia | New Zealand | 2 | 6 | 13 | 5 | Australia won [5] |
5 | Danny Morrison | 17 December 1995 | New Zealand | Pakistan | 1 | 10 | 46 | 5 | New Zealand won [42] |
Timothy Grant Southee, is a New Zealand international cricketer who captains for New Zealand cricket team in all formats of the game. He is a right-arm medium-fast bowler and a hard-hitting lower order batsman. The third New Zealand bowler to take 300 Test wickets, he was one of the country's youngest cricketers, debuting at the age of 19 in February 2008. On his Test debut against England he took 5 wickets and made 77 off 40 balls in the second innings. He plays for Northern Districts in the Plunket Shield, Ford Trophy and Super Smash as well as Northland in the Hawke Cup. He was named as New Zealand's captain for the first T20I against West Indies in place of Kane Williamson, who was rested for that game. The Blackcaps won that match by 47 runs. Southee was a member of the New Zealand team that won the 2019–2021 ICC World Test Championship. Southee currently has the highest (international) test batting strike rate among the batsmen with a minimum of 2000 test runs. His (batting) career strike rate is 83.12. He was also a part of the New Zealand squads to finish as runners-up in two Cricket World Cup finals in 2015 and 2019.