All Ten: The Ultimate Bowling Feat

214 Jack Bannister Warwickshire v Combined Services, 1959 Mitchell’s and Butler’s Ground, Birmingham on 27, 28 May 1959 (3-day match) Toss won by Warwickshire Warwickshire won by nine wickets Umpires: D Davies, N Oldfield Warwickshire 328-4 dec (WJP Stewart 151) and 17-1; Combined Services 114 (JD Bannister 10-41) and 229 Combined Services first innings A Jones c Khalid Ibadulla b Bannister 20 B Roe c Hitchcock b Bannister 10 DS Williams c Fox b Bannister 0 RJ Langridge c Fox b Bannister 4 *GG Tordoff lbw b Bannister 15 EMP Hardy c Cartwright b Bannister 0 JHG Deighton c Carter b Bannister 0 +J Fawkes c Khalid Ibadulla b Bannister 4 PJ Phelan c Fox b Bannister 41 D Meakin not out 14 RL Pratt c Khalid Ibadulla b Bannister 0 Extras (b 4, lb 1, w 1) 6 Total (all out, 46.3 overs) 114 Fall of wickets 1-25, 2-27, 3-32, 4-35, 5-39, 6-47, 7-50, 8-68, 9-114, 10-114 Warwickshire bowling: JD Bannister 23.3-11-41-10, RG Carter 12-2-31-0, TW Cartwright 2-1-4-0, Khalid Ibadulla 9-4-32-0 Warwickshire: Khalid Ibadulla, WJP Stewart, TW Cartwright, BE Fletcher, RE Hitchcock, MJK Smith (capt), WB Bridge, GH Hill, JG Fox (wk), JD Bannister, RG Carter Jack Bannister spent a lifetime in cricket. After National Service, and three seasons with Mitchells and Butlers in the Birmingham League, Wolverhampton-born Bannister’s first-class career began at Swansea in August 1950 three days after his 20th birthday. When it finished 18 years later all but six of his 374 matches had been for Warwickshire, and his fast-medium bowling had brought him 1,181 wickets for the county, a total only exceeded, just, by Sydney Santall’s pre-First World War medium pace and, of course by a considerably larger margin, by Eric Hollies’ wrist spin. Between the Wars the armed services separately played a number of first- class matches. A combined team also occasionally came together, but after the Second World War it played more regularly, competing in another 57 matches until 1964, by which time the end of National Service had meant the end of a steady supply of promising young cricketers into the forces, many of whom would go on to shine for county or country. In addition to the counties, Combined Services sometimes played Oxford and Cambridge