It is perhaps all bowlers’
dream to destroy the opponent team’s batting line up single-handedly. It is
such a difficult and nearly impossible task that only a few cricketers have
done it so far. However, many more players are likely to be included in this
elite club in future, but the pitch being more batting friendly, it has become
really very hard for bowlers to take all the wickets of an opponent team in an
innings in the longest version of the cricket team. As cricket is a game of making
new records, anything can happen.
Jim
Laker:
England’s
right-arm off break bowler, James Charles Laker
(who
is popularly known as Jim Laker), became the first cricketer to achieve this
feat in the history of cricket game. This incident took place at Old Trafford,
Manchester in 1956 when the bowler picked up all 10 wickets of the Australian
cricket team for 53 runs in 51.2 overs in the second innings of the fourth Test
of the 1956 Ashes series. However, in the first innings of the same match, the spinner
also bagged 9 wickets conceding 37 runs in 16.4 overs. The remaining one wicket
of that innings was taken by Tony Lock. Jim Laker ended up taking 19 wickets
for 90, which is a world record in first class cricket. Because of his
outstanding performance, this match has become known as Laker’s match. He led
his team to win the match by an innings and 170 runs. 
Full Scorecard- http://www.espncricinfo.com/series/17417/scorecard/62814/england-vs-australia-4th-test-australia-tour-of-england-1956
Anil
Kumble:
It
looked like no other players will be able to touch this record. However, 43
years after Jim Laker set this record, Anil Kumble of
India repeated the history at Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi in 1999. The right-arm
leg spinner (leg break googly) grabbed all 10 Pakistani wickets in the second
innings of the 2nd Test bowling 26.3 overs giving 74 runs. With this
achievement, Anil Kumble became only the second bowler to reach the feat of
taking all the wickets in an innings. However, in the first innings of the same
match, he could pick up only four wickets, totaling to 14 for 149. Because of
his good performance, India won the match by 212 runs.
Full Scorecard- http://www.espncricinfo.com/series/15864/scorecard/63829/india-vs-pakistan-2nd-test-pakistan-tour-of-india-1998-99
Mehboob
Alam:
Nepalese
cricketer, Mehboob Alam, has
also equaled this record, but his one is different from the other two players
mentioned above because he has done it in the limited version of the cricket game.
The left-arm fast bowler took all ten wickets of Mozambique giving 12 runs in
7.5 overs in a match during the 2008
ICC World Cricket League Division Five in Jersey.
So far this is the best bowling figure in a limited over cricket match. Because
of his superb bowling, the opponent team was bowled out for just 19 runs.
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