All Ten: The Ultimate Bowling Feat

280 Appendices Some statistics about bowlers taking all ten wickets in an innings Youngest: before the age of 20 Imran Adil 18 years 344 days, R.L.Johnson 19 years 185 days, A.J.G.Pearson 19 years 189 days Oldest: over 45 W.Bestwick 46 years 116 days, J.M.Sims 45 years 120 days Had never taken five wickets in an innings before A.E.Moss, H.Pickett, A.J.G.Pearson, Imran Adil, G.P.Wickramasinghe, R.L.Johnson Never took five wickets in an innings again A.Drake, Shahid Mahmood Took five wickets in an innings fewer than five times in career (including the all-ten) 2 A.E.Moss, 2 A.J.G.Pearson, 3 Shahid Mahmood, 4 H.Pickett Played ten or fewer matches before taking all-ten 0 A.E.Moss, 3 E.Hinkly, 7 S.E.Butler, 10 A.J.G.Pearson, 10 R.L.Johnson Had taken 30 or fewer wickets in career before taking all-ten 0 A.E.Moss, 9 E.Hinkly, 24 Imran Adil, 27 R.L.Johnson, 28 A.J.G.Pearson, 30 H.Pickett Played fewer than five matches after taking all-ten 1 A.Drake, 2 Shahid Mahmood, 3 A.E.Moss, J.B.King Fewest wickets taken in season in which all-ten taken: England and Wales 19th century: 22 V.E.Walker, 26 W.Hickton 20th century: 31 G.O.B.Allen, 40 R.L.Johnson Fewest wickets taken in overseas season in which all-ten taken Australia: 19th century - 17 G.Giffen; 20th century - 25 I.J.Brayshaw South Africa: 32 M.W.Olivier India: 14 S.P.Gupte (also took 55 wickets in Pakistan in the same season), 18 P.M.Chatterjee West Indies: 10 E.E.Hemmings (only played one match in the West Indies; also took 23 wickets in Australia) Pakistan: 16 Shahid Mahmood Sri Lanka: 38 G.P.Wickramasinghe (also took 11 wickets in Pakistan) New Zealand: 26 A.E.Moss USA: 25 J.B.King Fewer than 150 wickets taken in career 26 A.E.Moss, 89 Shahid Mahmood, 106 S.E.Butler, 134 H.Pickett, 134 P.M.Chatterjee All-ten in first season A.E.Moss, A.J.G.Pearson All-ten in last season A.E.Moss, J.Briggs, A.Drake, T.Rushby, Shahid Mahmood All-ten in fewest balls 53 A.Drake (he took the wickets in a spell of 42 balls) All-ten in most balls 308 J.C.Laker (Fourth Test England v Australia 1956) Least/most expensive all-tens in terms of runs per six balls H.Verity 10-10 (0.51), J.C.Laker 10-53 (1.03), P.M.Chatterjee 10-20 (1.05) J.M.Sims (10-90) 4.82, Imran Adil (10-92) 4.03, A.Drake (10-35) 3.96