On this day in 1956 , Jim Laker took all ten wickets for Surrey in a tour match vs the Australians, a feat he would famously repeat in the Old Trafford Test later that summer .
Here Laker took 10 for 88 and his spin partner Tony Lock 0 for 100 on a turner so raging that Ray Lindwall bowled only two out of 133 overs in Surrey’s first innings.
Ten weeks later Laker took 10 for 53 in the second innings of the fourth Test, to make it 19 for 90 in that match. Poor Lock was again the bridesmaid, with 1 for 116.
Here, though, he at least cleaned up in the second innings, taking seven wickets to Laker’s two.
