All Ten: The Ultimate Bowling Feat

253 Richard Johnson Middlesex v Derbyshire, 1994 County Championship County Ground, Derby on 30 June, 1, 2, July 1994 (4-day match) Toss won by Derbyshire Middlesex won by an innings and 96 runs Umpires: R Palmer, P Willey Derbyshire 344 (KJ Barnett 148, MA Feltham 5-69) and 105 (RL Johnson 10-45); Middlesex 545 (MW Gatting 147, MR Ramprakash 131, JD Carr 108 not out) Derbyshire second innings *KJ Barnett c Emburey b Johnson 4 MJ Vandrau b Johnson 0 TJG O’Gorman c Emburey b Johnson 18 CJ Adams c Carr b Johnson 8 DG Cork c Feltham b Johnson 4 +AS Rollins c and b Johnson 2 CM Wells b Johnson 32 AE Warner c Brown b Johnson 2 SJ Base lbw b Johnson 20 M Taylor c Ramprakash b Johnson 5 DE Malcolm not out 1 Extras (b 2, lb 4, nb 2, w 1) 9 Total (all out, 40.5 overs) 105 Fall of wickets 1-4, 2-9, 3-30, 4-34, 5-35, 6-36, 7-43, 8-93, 9-104, 10-105 Middlesex bowling: RL Johnson 18.5-6-45-10, KJ Shine 6-2-15-0, MA Feltham 12-4-37-0, PCR Tufnell 2-1-2-0, DL Haynes 2-2-0-0 Middlesex: DL Haynes, MA Roseberry, MW Gatting (capt), MR Ramprakash, JD Carr, KR Brown (wk), MA Feltham, RL Johnson, JE Emburey, KJ Shine, PCR Tufnell When Derbyshire and Middlesex met in June 1994 four of the bowlers playing had, or would take, over 100 Test wickets: for the home side the pace pair Dominic Cork and Devon Malcolm; for the visitors spinners John Emburey and Phil Tufnell. However it was the fast-medium swing bowling of 19-year-old Richard Johnson, playing only his eleventh first-class match and with previous best figures of only four for 64, that hit the headlines. The wide open spaces of the County Ground had had a varied and interesting history, having once been a racecourse, and the home of Derby County Football Club, but in well over a hundred years of county cricket they had never seen an all-ten. In fact, perhaps surprisingly given its reputation as a venue not usually welcoming to batsmen, Leicestershire’s David Millns, three years before, was the only bowler to have taken nine wickets in an innings there in the 20th century (although Kent’s Martin McCague would do so in the month following Johnson’s big day).