All Ten: The Ultimate Bowling Feat

247 Imran Adil Bahawalpur v Faisalabad, 1989/90 BCCP Patron’s Trophy Iqbal Stadium, Faisalabad on 30, 31 October, 1, 2 November 1989 (4-day match) Toss won by Bahawalpur Faisalabad won by 31 runs Umpires: Khalid Aziz, Saqib Irfan Faisalabad 226 (Imran Adil 10-92) and 139 (Imran Adil 5-66); Bahawalpur 155 and 179 Faisalabad first innings Aamer Nazir b Imran Adil 0 Nadeem Arshad c Shahid Anwar b Imran Adil 35 Mohammad Ashraf c Imran Zia b Imran Adil 0 Saadat Gul lbw b Imran Adil 0 +Bilal Ahmed c Sohail Iqbal b Imran Adil 47 Tanvir Afzal c Imran Zia b Imran Adil 57 Naseer Shaukat c and b Imran Adil 13 *Wasim Haider not out 62 Anwar Awais c Mohammad Zahid b Imran Adil 7 Rashid Wali b Imran Adil 1 Naved Nazir c Imran Zia b Imran Adil 0 Extras (lb 1, nb 1, w 2) 4 Total (all out, 56.5 overs) 226 Fall of wickets 1-0, 2-0, 3-1, 4-86, 5-107, 6-180, 7-209, 8-225, 9-226, 10-226 Bahawalpur bowling: Imran Adil 22.5-3-92-10, Shahid Anwar 13-2-36- 0, Tariq Ismail 2-0-12-0, Saleem Taj 1-0-8-0, Mohammad Zahid 6-0-21-0, Naeem Taj 9-0-44-0, Mohammad Shahid 3-0-12-0 Bahawalpur: Shahid Anwar, Tariq Ismail, Javed Rana, Imran Zia (wk), Saleem Taj, Mohammad Shahid, Aamer Sohail, Naeem Taj, Sohail Iqbal, Mohammad Zahid, Imran Adil (capt) Three weeks short of his 19th birthday Imran Adil became the youngest bowler to take an all-ten, and the second teenager after Tony Pearson 28 years before. Unfortunately, unlike Pearson, his feat did not prevent him finishing on the losing side. Born in Bahawalpur, Punjab, he made his first-class debut in November 1985 aged 14 years 358 days, which makes him younger than any debutant in Britain (beating Barney Gibson who was a month older when he played for Yorkshire in 2011) but way down the long list of (apparently) precocious Asian cricketers. Just over three years later the promise of Adil’s fast-medium bowling earned him selection for the Second Under-19 Test between Pakistan and India, a 4-day non-first-class match. Numbered among a strong Pakistan side were three players who would go on to have a considerable impact at full Test level: Moin Khan, Inzamam-ul-Haq and Mushtaq Ahmed. In his only representative match Adil had the rather