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!!!
9 Comments:
Oh so that's why surfer dudes started using the term "I'm stoked".
-R
3:41 am GMT
Is there proof that this guy was actually there? May be people are just buying the story just as many Indians believe that the Indian Railways has turned around!
-N
2:40 pm GMT
The Indian Railways has indeed turned around. Kudos to Laloo.
Now they will even be offering worldspace satellite radio on trains. I hope he can repeat the same miracle on passenger trains as he has done with freight.
Long live Laloo. Long live Bihar.
3:27 am GMT
from cricket to railways...i'm starting to wonder if the blog entry was on cricket or railways...if results, budgets and actions are to be believed we can be assured that railways is turning around...what share of these profits actually go into a ministers pocket can only be known over time...as long as the extent of bribe does not pull the railways down to where it was I'm ok with it...
- Pee Are
PS: and if there is any other comment on railways I will delete it...
3:59 am GMT
I see that you are not a big proponent of free speech.
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