All Ten: The Ultimate Bowling Feat

274 Zulfiqar Babar Multan v Islamabad, 2009/10 Quaid-e-Azam Trophy Multan Cricket Stadium, Multan on 9, 10, 11, 12 December 2009 (4-day match) Toss won by Islamabad Match drawn Umpires: Akram Raza, Ghaffar Kazmi Multan 352 (Naved Yasin 131) and 332-5 dec (Rameez Alam 119 not out); Islamabad 418 (Ashar Zaidi 130 not out, Zulfiqar Babar 10-143) and 58-3 Islamabad first innings Raheel Majeed c Abdul Rehman Muzammil b Zulfiqar Babar 48 Umair Khan c Gulraiz Sadaf b Zulfiqar Babar 63 Ali Sarfraz c Rizwan Haider b Zulfiqar Babar 36 Ameer Khan c Gulraiz Sadaf b Zulfiqar Babar 0 Ashar Zaidi not out 130 Wasim Abbas b Zulfiqar Babar 12 Imad Wasim c Rameez Alam b Zulfiqar Babar 28 +Naeem Anjum c Naved Yasin b Zulfiqar Babar 12 *Rauf Akbar c Tahir Maqsood b Zulfiqar Babar 39 Fakhar Hussain c Rameez Alam b Zulfiqar Babar 25 Nasrullah Khan c Rameez Alam b Zulfiqar Babar 0 Extras (b 7, lb 10 , nb 8) 25 Total (all out, 103.4 overs) 418 Fall of wickets 1-86, 2-155, 3-155, 4-162, 5-206, 6-277, 7-302, 8-384, 9-418, 10-418 Multan bowling: Ansar Javed 14-1-67-0, Tahir Maqsood 19-5-66-0, Zulfiqar Babar 39.4-3-143-10, Mohammad Ali 1-0-5-0, Rizwan Haider 8-0-34-0, Abdul Rehman Muzammil 18-5-57-0, Shahid Abbasi 4-0-29-0 Multan: Abdul Rehman Muzammil, Gulraiz Sadaf (wk), Rameez Alam, Shahid Abbasi, Naved Yasin (capt), Mohammad Ali, Zafar Iqbal, Rizwan Haider, Ansar Javed, Zulfiqar Babar, Tahir Maqsood Born in 1978, slow left-armer Zulfiqar Babar hails from the agricultural city of Okara 75 miles south west of Lahore. At the time of writing he is the only first-class cricketer still playing with an all-ten to his name. He was a bit of a late starter. He made his first-class debut for the Rest of Punjab against Islamabad in February 2002, but his next match, for Multan against Faisalabad, wasn’t for another five and a half years, by which time he was nearly 29. This time there was no looking back and in 2009/10 he took 96 wickets, and became the fourth Pakistani to take an all-ten. Wisden ’s reporting of the 2009/10 season in Pakistan makes depressing reading. Insecurity in the region meant that there was uncertainty in every part of society – including sport. With Pakistan forced to play all their international matches abroad, most of the national players were away so often that home supporters rarely got the chance to see them. There was