All Ten: The Ultimate Bowling Feat

233 Shahid Mahmood Karachi Whites v Khairpur, 1969/70 Quaid-e-Azam Trophy National Stadium, Karachi on 5, 6 September 1969 (3-day match) Toss won by Khairpur Karachi Whites won by an innings and 56 runs Umpires: Badshah Shirazi, Shujauddin Khairpur 93 and 146 (Shahid Mahmood 10-58); Karachi Whites 295 Khairpur second innings Abdul Hameed b Shahid Mahmood 15 Zafar Iqbal c Aftab Alam b Shahid Mahmood 0 Shakoor Rana b Shahid Mahmood 14 Aslam Sanjrani b Shahid Mahmood 5 +Razaullah Khan c Aftab Alam b Shahid Mahmood 27 Mohammad Akram c Abdul Kadir b Shahid Mahmood 5 Zafar Mahmood b Shahid Mahmood 23 Talat Iqbal c Abdur Raqib b Shahid Mahmood 2 Tahir Ali not out 38 *Abdul Aziz c Aftab Alam b Shahid Mahmood 6 Ghulam Sabir c Hasan Pervez b Shahid Mahmood 4 Extras 7 Total (all out, 55 overs) 146 Fall of wickets 1-25, 2-33, 3-52, 4-68, 5-88, 6-92, 7-93, 8-105, 9-117, 10-146 Karachi Whites bowling: Mufassir-ul-Haq 3-2-6-0, Hasan Pervez 2-1-15-0, Shahid Mahmood 25-5-58-10, Saleem Jan 9-4-11-0, Abdur Raqib 7-3-18-0, Akram Ali 3-2-14-0, Aftab Alam 6-1-17-0 Karachi Whites: Amin Ashraf, Shahid Mahmood, Aftab Alam, Abdul Kadir (wk), Wallis Mathias (capt), Akram Ali, Waheed Yar Khan, Saleem Jan, Abdur Raqib, Hasan Pervez, Mufassir-ul-Haq The next all-ten also came out of the blue. By September 1969, in a career that had started 13 years previously, 30-year-old left-hand allrounder Shahid Mahmood had taken 74 wickets in 63 matches with his medium- pace bowling, including five wickets in an innings just twice. Born in 1939 in Lucknow, India, his family moved to Pakistan in the early 1950s. He made the first of five centuries, a double (220), for Karachi University against Peshawar University shortly before his 20th birthday. Three seasons later he made a second century, 174 for Karachi against a fairly strong North Zone attack. Three other fifties and 23 wickets earned him place on the second Pakistan Test-playing tour to the British Isles in 1962. The tour contrasted unhappily with the first in 1954 when Pakistan had drawn the rubber with an historic win at The Oval. This time an inexperienced team, unused to the conditions, was completely outplayed, losing the series four-nil. Shahid already had some experience of the country having toured with the Pakistan Eaglets in 1958 (taking an all-ten and scoring a century against Isle of Wight CA), but in common with a

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