All Ten: The Ultimate Bowling Feat

240 Pradeep Sunderam Rajasthan v Vidarbha, 1985/86 Ranji Trophy Barkatullah Khan Stadium, Jodhpur on 17, 18, 19 November 1985 (3-day match) Toss won by Rajasthan Rajasthan won by nine runs. (Rajasthan were bowled out short of the winning target but when penalty runs for Vidarbha’s slow over-rate were added they were declared winners) Umpires: BR Keshavamurthy. R Mitra Vidarbha 140 (P Sunderam 10-78) and 184 (P Sunderam 6-76); Rajasthan 218 (BB Thakre 5-44) and 115 Vidarbha first innings + PB Hingnikar c and b Sunderam 1 *VS Telang lbw b Sunderam 0 MT Kaore not out 19 SG Hedaoo c Ratan Singh b Sunderam 0 SP Takle b Sunderam 0 PG Sahasrabudhe b Sunderam 45 SJ Phadkar b Sunderam 0 VS Gawate c and b Sunderam 0 HR Wasu b Sunderam 10 A Wankhede c Asawa b Sunderam 15 BB Thakre c Vyas b Sunderam 23 Extras (b 4, nb 3) 7 Penalties 20 Total (all out, 43 overs) 140 Fall of wickets 1-1, 2-5, 3-5, 4-5, 5-8, 6-8, 7-69, 8-78, 9-86, 10-120 Rajasthan bowling: P Sunderam 22-5-78-10, Yunus Ali 9-6-13-0, AV Mudkavi 2-1-2-0, Ratan Singh 7-1-16-0, SV Mudkavi 3-1-7-0 Rajasthan: SR Kaushik (wk), Parvinder Singh, PL Shastri, SV Mudkavi, AB Asawa, S Jain, AV Mudkavi, SM Vyas (capt), P Sunderam, Ratan Singh, Yunus Ali In its first fifty years only two bowlers (Chatterjee and Gupte) had taken 15 wickets in a Ranji Trophy match. Medium pacer Pradeep Sunderam would become the third man to achieve the feat, and then for good measure go one better. Born in Jaipur, Rajasthan, northern India, in 1960, Sunderam made his first-class debut in 1982. His father Gundibail had played for India twice, opening the bowling against New Zealand in 1955/56. He is another bowler whose all-ten probably came as a bit of a surprise. Although he had taken five wickets in an innings three times in his second season, in a 14-match career so far he had taken just 49 wickets at 37 apiece. He never played Test cricket, but after his success against Vidarbhar he might have hoped to be picked to go to England with the