Wreckers-in-chief

Everyone remembers the Delhi Test between India and Sri Lanka in 2005 for Sachin Tendulkar's record-breaking 35th Test century. But do you recall India losing five wickets for six runs on the second morning? A collapse masterminded by Muttiah Muralitharan who took seven wickets in the first innings, or that Anil Kumble took ten in the match to bowl India to victory. A century often overshadows a five-wicket haul even though a five-for is perhaps harder to achieve, given that you have your fellow bowlers competing for wickets. This week, the List features bowlers and their five-wicket hauls in matches won and lost.

Stuart MacGill, Shane Warne's perennial understudy, heads the list of bowlers with the highest percentage of five-fors in wins . He is the only bowler with more than ten five-wicket hauls to have a 100% win-rate though Jason Gillespie is not far behind. Australia has won each of the eight times Gillespie has taken five wickets in an innings. MacGill has taken four of his eight five-wicket hauls in Australia at the SCG, where he has 53 wickets from only eight Tests.

South Africa have won 12, drawn one and lost one - both against Australia - of the 14 matches in which Makhaya Ntini has taken five wickets in an innings . His five-for win percentage of 85.71 is the highest for a current bowler from outside Australia. Nine of Ntini's five-wicket hauls have come at home where he averages 22.83, compared to his career 28.09, and strikes every 43 balls. He had a phenomenal season in 2005-06 during which he took 48 wickets in eight Tests and won the South African cricketer of the year award for the second successive year.

Percentage won with 5 wickets in an innings - Tests (qualification: 5 instances of 5wi)

Player	Span	Mat	5wi		Won	5wi	%		Lost	5wi	%
SCG MacGill (Aust)	1998-2006	40	12		28	12	100.00		6	0	0.00
J Briggs (Eng)	1884-1899	33	9		19	9	100.00		12	0	0.00
JN Gillespie (Aust)	1996-2006	71	8		47	8	100.00		15	0	0.00
KR Miller (Aust)	1946-1956	55	7		31	7	100.00		9	0	0.00
JV Saunders (Aust)	1902-1908	14	6		9	6	100.00		4	0	0.00
R Peel (Eng)	1884-1896	20	5		12	5	100.00		7	0	0.00
AP Freeman (Eng)	1924-1929	12	5		6	5	100.00		4	0	0.00
GOB Allen (Eng)	1930-1948	25	5		10	5	100.00		8	0	0.00
PS de Villiers (SAf)	1993-1998	18	5		8	5	100.00		7	0	0.00
GA Lohmann (Eng)	1886-1896	18	9		15	8	88.88		3	1	11.11

Irfan Pathan also ranks highly among bowlers with the highest percentages of five-fors in wins - six of his seven five-wicket hauls have been in Indian victories. But a closer look reveals that Pathan has made the most of his battles with minnows. All of his six five-wicket hauls in wins were against Bangladesh or Zimbabwe . He has just one five-for - against Pakistan at Karachi , a match India lost - in 20 Tests against teams other than Bangladesh and Zimbabwe.

Kapil Dev, India's second-highest wicket-taker in Tests with 434 wickets, is 20th on the list of bowlers with lowest percentages of five-fors in wins. Kapil took five wickets in an innings 23 times but only on three occasions - against Pakistan at Chennai, Australia at Melbourne, and England at Mumbai - did India go on to win the match. Kapil's extremely poor win-percentage of 13.04 is by far the lowest among top 25 bowlers with most five-wicket hauls. Alec Bedser is second lowest with 40%.

Percentage lost with 5 wickets in an innings - Tests (qualification: 5 instances of 5wi)

Player	Span	Mat	5wi		Won	5wi	%		Lost	5wi	%
HH Streak (Zimb)	1993-2005	65	7		8	1	14.28		37	6	85.71
Mohammad Rafique (Bang)	2000-2006	26	7		1	1	14.28		22	6	85.71
BKV Prasad (India)	1996-2001	33	7		6	1	14.28		13	5	71.42
RM Hogg (Aust)	1978-1984	38	6		9	2	33.33		16	4	66.66
CTB Turner (Aust)	1887-1895	17	11		4	3	27.27		11	7	63.63
G Dymock (Aust)	1974-1980	21	5		6	2	40.00		9	3	60.00
RW Price (Zimb)	1999-2004	18	5		2	0	0.00		11	3	60.00
MW Tate (Eng)	1924-1935	39	7		15	2	28.57		8	4	57.14
BS Bedi (India)	1966-1979	67	14		17	6	42.85		28	7	50.00
DL Vettori (ICC/NZ)	1997-2006	71	12		24	4	33.33		24	6	50.00

In one-day internationals, Ian Bishop leads the table of bowlers with the highest percentages of four-fors in wins. All nine of Bishop's four-wicket hauls resulted in West Indian wins.

Fifteen of Glenn McGrath's 16 four-fors , 14 of Brett Lee's 15 and five of Gillespie's six four-wicket hauls have ended in victories. A clear indication that, when one of their fast bowlers fire, Australia will roll over the opposition. Lee's frequency of four-wicket hauls or more is extremely impressive. He's got 15 four-fors in 135 ODIs while McGrath has 16 after 221 games.

Percentage won with 4 wickets in an innings - ODIs (qualification: 5 instances of 5wi)

Player	Span	Mat	4wi		Won	4wi	%		Lost	4wi	%
IR Bishop (WI)	1988-1997	84	9		42	9	100.00		38	0	0.00
L Klusener (SAf)	1996-2004	171	7		109	7	100.00		53	0	0.00
M Prabhakar (India)	1984-1996	130	6		64	6	100.00		61	0	0.00
DW Fleming (Aust)	1994-2001	88	5		58	5	100.00		28	0	0.00
UDU Chandana (SL)	1994-2005	146	5		82	5	100.00		59	0	0.00
JM Anderson (Eng)	2002-2006	50	5		23	5	100.00		25	0	0.00
GD McGrath (Aust/ICC)	1993-2006	221	16		149	15	93.75		65	1	6.25
B Lee (Aust)	2000-2006	135	15		97	14	93.33		30	0	0.00
Shoaib Akhtar (Asia/ICC/Pak)	1998-2005	129	8		71	7	87.50		56	1	12.50
CA Walsh (WI)	1985-2000	205	7		112	6	85.71		86	1	14.28