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Eden Gardens is a cricket ground in Kolkata, India. It is the home of the Bengal cricket team and the Indian Premier League's Kolkata Knight Riders, as well as being a Test and One Day International ground. It has a capacity of 90,000. The ground has held Test matches since 1934 and hosted its first One Day International in 1987.

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. The first bowler to take a five-wicket haul in a Test match at Eden Gardens was Dattu Phadkar for India against Pakistan in 1952. Australia's Richie Benaud became the first to take two five-wicket hauls in the same match at Eden Gardens, when he took 6 for 52 and 5 for 53 in the second and fourth innings of the third Test of Australia's 1956–57 tour of India. As of December 2019, 44 Test match five-wicket hauls have occurred at the ground.

Three bowlers have taken five-wicket hauls during ODIs at Eden Gardens. The first player to do so was Allan Donald of South Africa, who achieved the feat when he took 5 wickets for 29 runs against India in 1991. The second five-wicket haul was made by India's Anil Kumble, which is also the best figures in ODI cricket at this ground. He took 6 for 12 against the West Indies in 1993. The most recent was by Ravindra Jadeja against South Africa during the 2023 Cricket World Cup.

Bangladeshi bowler Mustafizur Rahman is the only bowler to have taken a five-wicket haul in a T20I match held at the ground, doing so against New Zealand during the 2016 ICC World Twenty20.

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Five-wicket hauls in Test matches at Eden Gardens

No.	Bowler	Date	Team	Opposing team	Inn	Overs	Runs	Wkts	Econ	Batsmen	Result
1	Dattu Phadkar	12 December 1952	India	Pakistan	1	32	72	5	2.25	Hanif Mohammad Waqar Hasan Abdul Kardar Anwar Hussain Imtiaz Ahmed	Match drawn
2	Subhash Gupte	28 December 1955	India	New Zealand	2	33.5	90	6	2.66	John Guy Noel McGregor Tony MacGibbon Harry Cave John Hayes Jack Alabaster	Match drawn
3	Ghulam Ahmed	2 November 1956	India	Australia	1	20.3	49	7	2.39	Colin McDonald Neil Harvey Jim Burke Peter Burge Richie Benaud Ray Lindwall Pat Crawford	Australia won
4	Richie Benaud §	2 November 1956	Australia	India	2	29	52	6	1.79		Australia won
5	Richie Benaud §	2 November 1956	Australia	India	4	24.2	53	5	2.17		Australia won

One Day Internationals

Five-wicket hauls in One Day International matches at Eden Gardens

No.	Bowler	Date	Team	Opposing team	Inn	Overs	Runs	Wkts	Econ	Batsmen	Result
1	Allan Donald †	10 November 1991	South Africa	India	2	8.4	29	5	3.34	Ravi Shastri Sanjay Manjrekar Navjot Sidhu Sachin Tendulkar Pravin Amre	India won
2	Anil Kumble †	27 November 1993	India	West Indies	2	6.1	12	6	1.94	Roland Holder Jimmy Adams Anderson Cummins Carl Hooper Winston Benjamin Curtly Ambrose	India won
3	Ravindra Jadeja	15 November 2023	India	South Africa	2	9	33	5	3.66	Temba Bavuma Heinrich Klaasen David Miller Keshav Maharaj Kagiso Rabada	India won

Twenty20 Internationals

As of 21 November 2023

A single five-wicket haul has been taken in T20I matches on the ground.

Five-wicket hauls in Twenty20 Internationals at Eden Gardens

No.	Bowler	Date	Team	Opposing team	Inn	Overs	Runs	Wkts	Batsmen	Result
1	Mustafizur Rahman	26 March 2016	Bangladesh	New Zealand	1	4	22	5	Henry Nicholls Kane Williamson Grant Elliott Mitchell Santner Nathan McCullum	New Zealand won

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