First ever cricketer to
take 19 wickets in a test match
including 10 wickets in an innings Achieved this feat on
July 31, 1956
Historical
Background
Full
Name
James Charles (Jim) Laker
Date of Birth / Death
9 February 1922 – 23 April 1986
Place
of Birth
Yorkshire, England.
Activity / Profession
Cricket -
Bowling
Nationality
British
Brief
History
He was a
cricketer who played for England in the 1950s.
His full name is James Charles Laker.
He is best known for "Laker's match" in 1956 at Old
Trafford, when he took nineteen wickets in England's victory
against Australia.
He played 46 Test matches between 1948 and 1959, taking 193
wickets with a bowling average of 21.24.
Born in Frizinghall, Bradford, Yorkshire, he was known as an
elegant off-spin bowler.
He was the first individual to take all 10 wickets in a Test
match innings, just for 53 in the Australians' second
innings of the fourth Ashes Test at Old Trafford on
July 31, 1956.
Anil Kumble of India is the only other bowler in the world
to take all 10 wickets in an innings.
Having already taken nine for 37 in the first innings,
Laker's match bowling figures were nineteen for 90: no other
bowler has taken more than seventeen wickets in a
first-class match.
Laker's effort was part of a record-breaking performance
during the 1956 Ashes series: Laker's 46 wickets established
a record for a five-Test Ashes series which remains
unbroken.
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