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Records / First-class matches / Bowling records / Best figures in an innings

Best figures in an innings

Player
H Verity	10-10	Yorkshire v Nottinghamshire	Leeds	1932
G Geary	10-18	Leicestershire v Glamorgan	Pontypridd	1929
PM Chatterjee	10-20	Bengal v Assam	Jorhat	1956-57
AEE Vogler	10-26	E Province v Griqualand West	Johannesburg	1906-07
AE Moss	10-28	Canterbury v Wellington	Christchurch	1889-90
WP Howell	10-28	Australians v Surrey	The Oval	1899
Naeem Akhtar	10-28	Rawalpindi Blues v Peshawar	Peshawar	1995-96
C Blythe	10-30	Kent v Northamptonshire	Northampton	1907
H Pickett	10-32	Essex v Leicestershire	Leyton	1895
A Drake	10-35	Yorkshire v Somerset	Weston-s-M	1914
H Verity	10-36	Yorkshire v Warwickshire	Leeds	1931
TW Wall	10-36	South Australia v NSW	Sydney	1932-33
AS Kennedy	10-37	Players v Gentlemen	The Oval	1927
CV Grimmett	10-37	Australians v Yorkshire	Sheffield	1930
SE Butler	10-38	Oxford U v Cambridge U	Lord's	1871
EG Dennett	10-40	Gloucestershire v Essex	Bristol	1906
W Bestwick	10-40	Derbyshire v Glamorgan	Cardiff	1921
GOB Allen	10-40	Middlesex v Lancashire	Lord's	1929
JD Bannister	10-41	Warwickshire v Comb Services	Birmingham	1959
GP Wickramasinghe	10-41	Sinhalese SC v Kalutara PCC	Colombo	1991-92
AE Trott	10-42	Middlesex v Somerset	Taunton	1900
E Barratt	10-43	Players v Australians	The Oval	1878
T Rushby	10-43	Surrey v Somerset	Taunton	1921
IJ Brayshaw	10-44	Western Australia v Victoria	Perth	1967-68
T Richardson	10-45	Surrey v Essex	The Oval	1894
RL Johnson	10-45	Middlesex v Derbyshire	Derby	1994
W Hickton	10-46	Lancashire v Hampshire	Manchester	1870
DS Mohanty	10-46	East Zone v South Zone	Agartala	2000-01
TF Smailes	10-47	Yorkshire v Derbyshire	Sheffield	1939
OD Gibson	10-47	Durham v Hampshire	Durham	2007
CHG Bland	10-48	Sussex v Kent	Tonbridge	1900
WG Grace	10-49	MCC v Oxford U	Oxford	1886
EJ Tayler	10-49	Somerset v Surrey	Taunton	1895
WE Hollies	10-49	Warwickshire v Nottinghamshire	Birmingham	1946
NI Thomson	10-49	Sussex v Warwickshire	Worthing	1964
H Howell	10-51	Warwickshire v Yorkshire	Birmingham	1923
J Mercer	10-51	Glamorgan v Worcestershire	Worcester	1936
JB King	10-53	Philadelphia v Ireland	Haverford	1909
AP Freeman	10-53	Kent v Essex	Southend	1930
JC Laker	10-53	England v Australia	Manchester	1956
G Wootton	10-54	All England XI v Yorkshire	Sheffield	1865
GAR Lock	10-54	Surrey v Kent	Blackheath	1956
J Briggs	10-55	Lancashire v Worcestershire	Manchester	1990
Shahid Mahmood	10-58	Karachi Whites v Khairpur	Karachi	1969/70
G Burton	10-59	Middlesex v Surrey	The Oval	1888
ST Jefferies	10-59	Western Province v OFS	Cape Town	1987-88
PJ Allan	10-61	Queensland v Victoria	Melbourne	1965-66
TB Mitchell	10-64	Derbyshire v Leicestershire	Leicester	1935
GC Collins	10-65	Kent v Nottinghamshire	Dover	1922
MW Olivier	10-65	Warriors v Eagles	Bloemfontein	2007/08
G Giffen	10-66	Australia v Rest of Australia	Sydney	1883-84
AA Mailey	10-66	Australians v Gloucestershire	Cheltenham	1921
JKR Graveney	10-66	Gloucestershire v Derbyshire	Chesterfield	1949
K Smales	10-66	Nottinghamshire v Gloucestershire	Stroud	1956
EA Watts	10-67	Surrey v Warwickshire	Birmingham	1939
SMJ Woods	10-69	Cambridge U v CI Thornton's XI	Cambridge	1890
A Shaw	10-73	MCC v North of England	Lord's	1874
VE Walker	10-74	England v Surrey	The Oval	1859
A Kumble	10-74	India v Pakistan	Delhi	1998-99
JC White	10-76	Somerset v Worcestershire	Worcester	1921
SP Gupte	10-78	President's XI v Combined XI	Bombay	1954-55
AJG Pearson	10-78	Cambridge U v Leicestershire	Loughborough	1961
P Sunderam	10-78	Rajasthan v Vidarbha	Jodhpur	1985-86
CWL Parker	10-79	Gloucestershire v Somerset	Bristol	1921
AP Freeman	10-79	Kent v Lancashire	Manchester	1931
JC Laker	10-88	Surrey v Australians	The Oval	1956
A Fielder	10-90	Players v Gentlemen	Lord's	1906
JM Sims	10-90	East v West	Kingston	1948
TE Bailey	10-90	Essex v Lancashire	Clacton	1949
Imran Adil	10-92	Bahawalpur v Faisalabad	Faisalabad	1989-90
R Berry	10-102	Lancashire v Worcestershire	Blackpool	1953
VE Walker	10-104	Middlesex v Lancashire	Manchester	1865
TWJ Goddard	10-113	Gloucestershire v Worcestershire	Cheltenham	1937
VWC Jupp	10-127	Northamptonshire v Kent	Tunbridge W	1932
Jas Lillywhite	10-129	South v North	Canterbury	1872
AP Freeman	10-131	Kent v Lancashire	Maidstone	1929
EE Hemmings	10-175	International XI v West Indies XI	Kingston	1982-83
Mario Olivier	10-65	Warriors v Eagles	Bloemfontein	2007
E Hinkly	10- ?	Kent v England	Lord's	1848
J Wisden	10- ?	North v South	Lord's	1850

The following bowlers took 10 wickets in 12-a-side matches

Player
EM Grace	10- 69	MCC v Gentlemen of Kent	Canterbury	1862
WG Grace	10- 92	MCC v Kent	Canterbury	1873
DCS Hinds	10- 36	AB St Hill's XII v Trinidad	Port-of-Spain	1900-01

Notes

1. Wisden's 10 wickets were all bowled

2. No analyses are available for the first two ever instances (by Hinkly and Wisden)

3. In EM Grace's match one batsman was absent, so he took all 10 wickets to fall

4. AP Freeman achieved the feat three times, at which time he was 42, 43 and 44

5. AE Moss took all ten in the first innings of his first-class debut. He only played four matches in all

6. The oldest man to achieve the feat is Billy Bestwick in 1921 when he was 46 years and 116 days old. He achieved his ten-for on June 20, 1921, and on the same day Jack White took all ten wickets for Somerset at Worcester

7. The youngest man is Imran Adil in 1989-90 when he was 18 years 344 days old

8. Jim Laker is the only man to achieve the feat twice in one season (1956), both times against Australia. On both occasions Colin McDonald top scored with 89

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