Complete Men’s Super Smash 5-Fers List

New Zealand’s domestic T20 competition is older than most other T20 leagues across the world, having originated in the 2005/06 season. Having changed multiple names over the years, the tournament is now called the Men’s Super Smash T20 competition, which runs each year during the Dec-Jan period, alongside the women’s competition as well.

While we always tend to glorify the best batting performances, we’re going to discuss some of the top bowling efforts in the men’s super smash history on this page. We’ve deep dived into every occasion that a 5-wicket haul was picked up by a bowler over the seasons, so keep reading below for our complete men’s Super Smash 5-fers list, from start of the tournament till date.

The first player to get a 5-fer in the men’s Super Smash competition was Ewen Thompson who did so while representing the Central Districts franchise in the 2006/07 season. He bagged 5/32 in that effort and it was only 6 years later that we saw the first overseas player to join the Super Smash 5-fers list, when Australia’s Ben Laughlin joined the action with 6/28 in 2013.

Laughlin’s 6/28 was not just the first time an overseas player got a 5-fer but it was also the second Super Smash 6-fer in the tournament’s history. The only other overseas player to get a Super Smash 5-fer is Ben Hilfenhaus, also from Australia. See below for our complete men’s Super Smash 5-wicket hauls list, last updated 27th January 2024, at the end of the 2023/24 Super Smash season:

Men’s Super Smash all 5-fers list

Sr.	Name	Team	Date	Figures
1	Ewen Thompson	Central Districts vs Otago	20 Jan 2007	5/32
2	Jacob Oram	Central Districts vs Otago	6 Jan 2010	5/14
3	Rob Nicol	Canterbury vs Northern Districts	10 Jan 2010	5/22
4	Ian Butler	Otago vs Auckland	15 Jan 2010	6/28
5	Andre Adams	Auckland vs Central Districts	3 Dec 2010	5/20
6	Ben Laughlin	Northern Districts vs Wellington	19 Nov 2013	6/28
7	Andrew Ellis	Canterbury vs Wellington	8 Nov 2014	5/14
8	Andrew Ellis (2)	Canterbury vs Northern Districts	6 Nov 2015	5/9
9	George Worker	Central Districts vs Otago	7 Nov 2015	5/10
10	Jacob Duffy	Otago vs Canterbury	12 Nov 2015	5/18
11	Ben Hilfenhaus	Canterbury vs Otago	23 Dec 2016	5/23
12	Blair Tickner	Central Districts vs Auckland	29 Dec 2016	5/19
13	Jacob Duffy (2)	Otago vs Canterbury	14 Dec 2017	5/39
14	Andrew Ellis (3)	Canterbury vs Otago	26 Dec 2017	5/16
15	Kyle Jamieson	Canterbury vs Auckland	1 Jan 2019	6/7
16	Tarun Nethula	Northern Districts vs Central Districts	25 Jan 2019	6/23
17	Nathan Smith	Otago vs Northern Districts	16 Dec 2019	5/14
18	Ollie Newton	Wellington vs Central Districts	27 Dec 2019	5/45
19	Will Williams	Canterbury vs Wellington	9 Jan 2020	5/12
20	Seth Rance	Central Districts vs Otago	18 Dec 2021	5/19
21	Dean Foxcroft	Otago vs Auckland	29 Dec 2022	5/11
22	Matthew Bacon	Otago vs Central Districts	21 Jan 2023	5/28
23	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD
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25	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD
26	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD
27	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD
28	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD

Ian Butler picked up the first 6-fer in the tournament with 6/28 for Otago against Auckland. Other players to join him in the Super Smash 6-fers list were Laughlin, Kyle Jamieson, and Tarun Nethula. Jamieson holds the record for the best bowling figures in Super Smash T20 history, bagging 6/7 for Canterbury against Auckland in the Super Smash 2018/19 season.

Local player Andrew Ellis became the first person to make multiple entries into the Super Smash 5-fers list, and then went on to become the first to get three 5-fers in the tournament too. No other bowler has got to this milestone three times, while Jacob Duffy is the only other player to have got two 5-fers in the competition.

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