Ten wickets in an innings

When Anil Kumble took 10 wickets in an innings against Pakistan at Kotla, he become only the 2nd player to take all the 10 wickets in an innings.

Watching him among the spectators apparently was a British businessman by the name of Richard Stokes. He was at Kotla after the lunch break and saw Kumble get his Perfect Ten.

So why is Stokes deserving a mention here?

Forty three years earlier, Jim Laker took Test cricket’s first first-ever ten in an innings by a bowler! Laker had taken 10 wickets against Australia in the Ashes in 1956 playing at Old Trafford in Manchester. Stokes then ten years old, had accompanied his father to Old Trafford to see Laker those 10 wickets!!!

Now what are the odds a person seeing the first two 10 wicket haul in test cricket which occurred 43 years apart in 2 different continents!!!