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Records / Test matches / Bowling records / Best figures in an innings

Best figures in an innings

Player	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Econ	Team	Opposition	Ground	Match Date	Scorecard
JC Laker	51.2	23	53	10	1.03	England	v Australia	Manchester	26 Jul 1956	Test # 428
A Kumble	26.3	9	74	10	2.79	India	v Pakistan	Delhi	4 Feb 1999	Test # 1443
GA Lohmann	14.2x5	6	28	9	2.33	England	v South Africa	Johannesburg	2 Mar 1896	Test # 48
JC Laker	16.4	4	37	9	2.22	England	v Australia	Manchester	26 Jul 1956	Test # 428
M Muralitharan	40.0	19	51	9	1.27	Sri Lanka	v Zimbabwe	Kandy	4 Jan 2002	Test # 1583
RJ Hadlee	23.4	4	52	9	2.19	New Zealand	v Australia	Brisbane	8 Nov 1985	Test # 1029
Abdul Qadir	37.0	13	56	9	1.51	Pakistan	v England	Lahore	25 Nov 1987	Test # 1081
DE Malcolm	16.3	2	57	9	3.45	England	v South Africa	The Oval	18 Aug 1994	Test # 1266
M Muralitharan	54.2	27	65	9	1.19	Sri Lanka	v England	The Oval	27 Aug 1998	Test # 1423
JM Patel	35.5	16	69	9	1.92	India	v Australia	Kanpur	19 Dec 1959	Test # 483
N Kapil Dev	30.3	6	83	9	2.72	India	v West Indies	Ahmedabad	12 Nov 1983	Test # 967
Sarfraz Nawaz	35.4x8	7	86	9	1.81	Pakistan	v Australia	Melbourne	10 Mar 1979	Test # 849
JM Noreiga	49.4	16	95	9	1.91	West Indies	v India	Port of Spain	6 Mar 1971	Test # 683
SP Gupte	34.3	11	102	9	2.95	India	v West Indies	Kanpur	12 Dec 1958	Test # 461
SF Barnes	38.4	7	103	9	2.66	England	v South Africa	Johannesburg	26 Dec 1913	Test # 131
HJ Tayfield	37.0x8	11	113	9	2.29	South Africa	v England	Johannesburg	15 Feb 1957	Test # 437
AA Mailey	47.0	8	121	9	2.57	Australia	v England	Melbourne	11 Feb 1921	Test # 138
GA Lohmann	9.4x5	5	7	8	0.85	England	v South Africa	Port Elizabeth	13 Feb 1896	Test # 47
J Briggs	14.2x4	5	11	8	1.13	England	v South Africa	Cape Town	25 Mar 1889	Test # 32
GD McGrath	16.0	8	24	8	1.50	Australia	v Pakistan	Perth	16 Dec 2004	Test # 1726
SF Barnes	16.4	4	29	8	1.74	England	v South Africa	The Oval	12 Aug 1912	Test # 128
CEH Croft	18.5	7	29	8	1.53	West Indies	v Pakistan	Port of Spain	4 Mar 1977	Test # 799
FJ Laver	18.2	7	31	8	1.69	Australia	v England	Manchester	26 Jul 1909	Test # 104
FS Trueman	8.4	2	31	8	3.57	England	v India	Manchester	17 Jul 1952	Test # 353
IT Botham	20.5	8	34	8	1.63	England	v Pakistan	Lord's	15 Jun 1978	Test # 826
GA Lohmann	27.1x4	12	35	8	1.92	England	v Australia	Sydney	25 Feb 1887	Test # 26
LR Gibbs	53.3	37	38	8	0.71	West Indies	v India	Bridgetown	23 Mar 1962	Test # 527
GD McGrath	20.3	8	38	8	1.85	Australia	v England	Lord's	19 Jun 1997	Test # 1370
AE Trott	27.0	10	43	8	1.59	Australia	v England	Adelaide	11 Jan 1895	Test # 44
H Verity	22.3	8	43	8	1.91	England	v Australia	Lord's	22 Jun 1934	Test # 234
RGD Willis	15.1	3	43	8	2.83	England	v Australia	Leeds	16 Jul 1981	Test # 905
CEL Ambrose	22.4	10	45	8	1.98	West Indies	v England	Bridgetown	5 Apr 1990	Test # 1143
M Muralitharan	16.2	4	46	8	2.81	Sri Lanka	v West Indies	Kandy	22 Jul 2005	Test # 1757
DL Underwood	34.5	17	51	8	1.46	England	v Pakistan	Lord's	8 Aug 1974	Test # 743
MH Mankad	47.0	27	52	8	1.10	India	v Pakistan	Delhi	16 Oct 1952	Test # 355
GB Lawrence	30.3	12	53	8	1.73	South Africa	v New Zealand	Johannesburg	26 Dec 1961	Test # 517
RAL Massie	27.2	9	53	8	1.93	Australia	v England	Lord's	22 Jun 1972	Test # 699
ARC Fraser	16.1	2	53	8	3.27	England	v West Indies	Port of Spain	5 Feb 1998	Test # 1398
MH Mankad	38.5	15	55	8	1.41	India	v England	Chennai	6 Feb 1952	Test # 348
SF Barnes	26.5	9	56	8	2.08	England	v South Africa	Johannesburg	26 Dec 1913	Test # 131
GA Lohmann	43.2	18	58	8	1.33	England	v Australia	Sydney	29 Jan 1892	Test # 36
Imran Khan	29.3	8	58	8	1.96	Pakistan	v Sri Lanka	Lahore	22 Mar 1982	Test # 927
C Blythe	15.5	1	59	8	3.72	England	v South Africa	Leeds	29 Jul 1907	Test # 94
AA Mallett	23.6x8	6	59	8	1.86	Australia	v Pakistan	Adelaide	22 Dec 1972	Test # 704
Imran Khan	20.1	4	60	8	2.97	Pakistan	v India	Karachi	23 Dec 1982	Test # 942
ND Hirwani	18.3	3	61	8	3.29	India	v West Indies	Chennai	11 Jan 1988	Test # 1089
MG Johnson	24.0	4	61	8	2.54	Australia	v South Africa	Perth	17 Dec 2008	Test # 1899
L Klusener	21.3	4	64	8	2.97	South Africa	v India	Kolkata	27 Nov 1996	Test # 1341
H Trumble	31.0	13	65	8	2.09	Australia	v England	The Oval	11 Aug 1902	Test # 74
W Rhodes	15.0	0	68	8	4.53	England	v Australia	Melbourne	1 Jan 1904	Test # 79
HJ Tayfield	37.7x8	14	69	8	1.36	South Africa	v England	Durban	25 Jan 1957	Test # 436
Sikander Bakht	21.0	3	69	8	3.28	Pakistan	v India	Delhi	4 Dec 1979	Test # 863
SJ Snooke	31.4	8	70	8	2.21	South Africa	v England	Johannesburg	10 Mar 1906	Test # 90
M Muralitharan	30.0	10	70	8	2.33	Sri Lanka	v England	Nottingham	2 Jun 2006	Test # 1804
GD McKenzie	28.0x8	5	71	8	1.90	Australia	v West Indies	Melbourne	26 Dec 1968	Test # 643
SK Warne	50.2	22	71	8	1.41	Australia	v England	Brisbane	25 Nov 1994	Test # 1275
AA Donald	33.0	12	71	8	2.15	South Africa	v Zimbabwe	Harare	13 Oct 1995	Test # 1307
S Venkataraghavan	51.1	26	72	8	1.40	India	v New Zealand	Delhi	19 Mar 1965	Test # 583
ND Hirwani	15.2	3	75	8	4.89	India	v West Indies	Chennai	11 Jan 1988	Test # 1089
ARC Fraser	28.5	7	75	8	2.60	England	v West Indies	Bridgetown	8 Apr 1994	Test # 1258
EAS Prasanna	23.0x8	5	76	8	2.47	India	v New Zealand	Auckland	24 Jan 1976	Test # 769
BS Chandrasekhar	41.5	18	79	8	1.88	India	v England	Delhi	20 Dec 1972	Test # 703
LC Braund	29.1	6	81	8	2.77	England	v Australia	Melbourne	5 Mar 1904	Test # 82
JR Ratnayeke	23.2	5	83	8	3.55	Sri Lanka	v Pakistan	Sialkot	27 Oct 1985	Test # 1027
RAL Massie	32.5	7	84	8	2.55	Australia	v England	Lord's	22 Jun 1972	Test # 699
Harbhajan Singh	41.5	20	84	8	2.00	India	v Australia	Chennai	18 Mar 2001	Test # 1539
N Kapil Dev	30.5	7	85	8	2.75	India	v Pakistan	Lahore	23 Jan 1983	Test # 947
AW Greig	36.1	10	86	8	2.37	England	v West Indies	Port of Spain	30 Mar 1974	Test # 738
J Srinath	27.0	6	86	8	3.18	India	v Pakistan	Kolkata	16 Feb 1999	Test # 1444
MG Hughes	37.0	9	87	8	2.35	Australia	v West Indies	Perth	2 Dec 1988	Test # 1110
M Muralitharan	34.1	9	87	8	2.54	Sri Lanka	v India	Colombo (SSC)	29 Aug 2001	Test # 1559
MA Holding	33.0	9	92	8	2.78	West Indies	v England	The Oval	12 Aug 1976	Test # 781
T Richardson	36.1	7	94	8	2.59	England	v Australia	Sydney	26 Feb 1898	Test # 57
CJ McDermott	24.4	2	97	8	3.93	Australia	v England	Perth	1 Feb 1991	Test # 1163
IT Botham	27.4	6	103	8	3.72	England	v West Indies	Lord's	28 Jun 1984	Test # 990
AL Valentine	50.0	14	104	8	2.08	West Indies	v England	Manchester	8 Jun 1950	Test # 323
N Kapil Dev	38.0	6	106	8	2.78	India	v Australia	Adelaide	13 Dec 1985	Test # 1032
BJT Bosanquet	32.4	2	107	8	3.27	England	v Australia	Nottingham	29 May 1905	Test # 83
NA Foster	46.2	15	107	8	2.30	England	v Pakistan	Leeds	2 Jul 1987	Test # 1077
SCG MacGill	33.3	2	108	8	3.22	Australia	v Bangladesh	Fatullah	9 Apr 2006	Test # 1797
PA Strang	51.5	12	109	8	2.10	Zimbabwe	v New Zealand	Bulawayo	12 Sep 2000	Test # 1510
GF Lawson	40.0	7	112	8	2.80	Australia	v West Indies	Adelaide	7 Dec 1984	Test # 1002
JC White	64.5	21	126	8	1.94	England	v Australia	Adelaide	1 Feb 1929	Test # 179
CJ McDermott	36.0	3	141	8	3.91	Australia	v England	Manchester	1 Aug 1985	Test # 1020
A Kumble	46.5	7	141	8	3.01	India	v Australia	Sydney	2 Jan 2004	Test # 1680
MHN Walker	42.2x8	7	143	8	2.53	Australia	v England	Melbourne	8 Feb 1975	Test # 755
Saqlain Mushtaq	74.0	20	164	8	2.21	Pakistan	v England	Lahore	15 Nov 2000	Test # 1513
JJ Krejza	43.5	1	215	8	4.90	Australia	v India	Nagpur	6 Nov 2008	Test # 1892

Records includes the following current or recent matches:

West Indies v Bangladesh at Kingstown, 1st Test, Jul 9-13, 2009 [Test # 1923 - Live]
» Bangladesh 42/0 (18.5 ov, Tamim Iqbal 14*, Imrul Kayes 26*, DJG Sammy 0/6) - Stumps

England v Australia at Cardiff, 1st Test, Jul 8-12, 2009 [Test # 1922 - Live]
» Australia 249/1 (71.0 ov, SM Katich 104*, RT Ponting 100*, A Flintoff 1/48) - Stumps

Sri Lanka v Pakistan at Galle, 1st Test, Jul 4-7, 2009 [Test # 1921]

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Andrew Symonds holds the record for most number of sixes hit in a first-class match. He slammed 20 for Gloucestershire against Glamorgan in Abergavenny in 1995. He struck 16 in his first innings score of 254, and four more in the second innings, when he made 76.

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