Only two bowlers in the history of Test cricket have picked up all 10 wickets in an innings.
England’s Jim Laker was the first to achieve this rare feat, doing so in a Test against Australia at Old Trafford, Manchester in 1956. Laker’s 10-53 still remains the best bowling figures in a Test innings to date.
A little less than 43 years later, in the second Test of the series between arch-rivals India and Pakistan in Delhi, Anil Kumble became just the second bowler to take all ten scalps in a Test innings.
Pakistan were chasing 420 in the fourth innings and a 100-run opening wicket partnership between Saeed Anwar and Shahid Afridi had given the visitors hopes of an unlikely victory.
Already 0-1 down in the series, it was a desperate situation for India until Kumble turned up and delivered.
Pakistan would go from 101-0 to 207 all out, with Kumble responsible for all 10 wickets, ending the innings with figures of 10-74.
