Some Cricket Oddities – Bowlers returning with figures of “5 for 55″, 6 for 66″ and 7 for 77” in Test innings.
MA Starc of Australia returned with figures of 6 for 66 in Pakistan’s first innings in the ongoing Test at Adelaide to provide the eighth occasion of a bowler returning with figures of “Six for Sixty Six” in an innings in the annals of Test Cricket. All such occasions are tabulated below
Test Cricket has witnessed one occasion of a bowler capturing “Seven for Seventy Seven” and 22 occasions of bowlers capturing “Five for Fifty-five”. All such occasions are tabulated. There are no occasions of a bowler’s “Eight for Eighty-Eight” and “Nine for Ninty Nine” witnessed in the annals of Test cricket.
| No | Player | Overs | M | Runs | W | Inns | Team | Oppn | Ground | Start Date |
| 1 | Danish Kaneria | 19.4 | 4 | 77 | 7 | 3 | Pak | Ban | Dhaka | 09 Jan 2002 |
| No | Player | Overs | M | Runs | W | Inns | Team | Oppn | Ground | Start Date |
| 1 | Fazal Mahmood | 27.0 | 10 | 66 | 6 | 4 | Pak | Win | Dhaka | 06 Mar 1959 |
| 2 | DK Lillee | 30.0 | 8 | 66 | 6 | 3 | Aus | Eng | Manchester | 08 Jun 1972 |
| 3 | DL Underwood | 32.5 | 13 | 66 | 6 | 3 | Eng | Aus | Manchester | 07 Jul 1977 |
| 4 | RJ Ratnayake | 19.4 | 2 | 66 | 6 | 1 | Srl | Aus | Hobart | 16 Dec 1989 |
| 5 | BA Reid | 26.2 | 7 | 66 | 6 | 1 | Aus | Ind | Melbourne | 26 Dec 1991 |
| 6 | KCG Benjamin | 24.0 | 7 | 66 | 6 | 1 | Win | Eng | Kingston | 19 Feb 1994 |
| 7 | M Ntini | 31.4 | 12 | 66 | 6 | 3 | SAF | NZl | Bloemfontein | 17 Nov 2000 |
| 8 | MA Starc | 25.0 | 6 | 66 | 6 | 2 | Aus | Pak | Adelaide | 29 Nov 2019 |
| No | Player | Overs | M | Runs | W | Inns | Team | Oppn | Ground | Start Date |
| 1 | WJ Whitty | 34.0 | 12 | 55 | 5 | 2 | Aus | SAF | Manchester | 27 May 1912 |
| 2 | MS Nichols | 23.5 | 7 | 55 | 5 | 3 | Eng | Ind | Mumbai | 15 Dec 1933 |
| 3 | WE Bowes | 11.3 | 3 | 55 | 5 | 3 | Eng | Aus | The Oval | 18 Aug 1934 |
| 4 | HHH Johnson | 31.0 | 11 | 55 | 5 | 3 | Win | Eng | Kingston | 27 Mar 1948 |
| 5 | JM Patel | 25.4 | 7 | 55 | 5 | 4 | Ind | Aus | Kanpur | 19 Dec 1959 |
| 6 | N Gifford | 29.0 | 9 | 55 | 5 | 3 | Eng | Pak | Karachi | 24 Mar 1973 |
| 7 | BL Cairns | 33.1 | 11 | 55 | 5 | 1 | NZl | Ind | Chennai | 26 Nov 1976 |
| 8 | BS Bedi | 13.7×8 | 3 | 55 | 5 | 1 | Ind | Aus | Brisbane | 02 Dec 1977 |
| 9 | Sikander Bakht | 22.1 | 5 | 55 | 5 | 1 | Pak | Ind | Mumbai | 16 Dec 1979 |
| 10 | J Garner | 23.5 | 7 | 55 | 5 | 3 | Win | Eng | Birmingham | 14 Jun 1984 |
| 11 | C Sharma | 13.1 | 2 | 55 | 5 | 2 | Ind | Win | Delhi | 25 Nov 1987 |
| 12 | GR Dilley | 23.0 | 6 | 55 | 5 | 1 | Eng | Win | Lord’s | 16 Jun 1988 |
| 13 | AA Donald | 27.0 | 11 | 55 | 5 | 1 | SAF | Ind | Port Elizabeth | 26 Dec 1992 |
| 14 | Wasim Akram | 20.0 | 3 | 55 | 5 | 2 | Pak | Srl | Peshawar | 08 Sep 1995 |
| 15 | CEL Ambrose | 24.5 | 7 | 55 | 5 | 1 | Win | Aus | Melbourne | 26 Dec 1996 |
| 16 | GD McGrath | 17.0 | 1 | 55 | 5 | 3 | Aus | Ind | Sydney | 02 Jan 2000 |
| 17 | CR Miller | 18.0 | 5 | 55 | 5 | 4 | Aus | NZl | Auckland | 11 Mar 2000 |
| 18 | CS Martin | 20.0 | 6 | 55 | 5 | 2 | NZl | SAF | Wellington | 26 Mar 2004 |
| 19 | SR Clark | 17.0 | 3 | 55 | 5 | 1 | Aus | SAF | Cape Town | 16 Mar 2006 |
| 20 | TG Southee | 23.1 | 8 | 55 | 5 | 1 | NZl | Eng | Napier | 22 Mar 2008 |
| 21 | DJG Sammy | 16.0 | 1 | 55 | 5 | 4 | Win | Ban | St George’s | 17 Jul 2009 |
| 22 | Rashid Khan | 19.5 | 3 | 55 | 5 | 2 | Afg | Ban | Chattogram | 05 Sep 2019 |