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On May 6, 1922 Jennings Tune took 10 wickets without conceding a run

XtraTime Web Desk: One of the most unique feats in a game of cricket is to pick all ten wickets in an innings. It might sound like once in a blue moon kind for any player to achieve this sort of a record. But the fact is more than fifty bowlers have been able to achieve this rare feat of claiming all 10 wickets in an innings in first-class cricket. Only two bowlers – Jim Laker of England and India’s Anil Kumble have claimed all 10 wickets in test matches. Laker was the first bowler to take all 10 wickets in a Test match innings, 10 for 53 in the 2nd innings of the 4th Ashes Test at Old Trafford in 1956. Kumble picked all 10 wickets during the second innings of the Kotla test match against Pakistan in 1999. An English bowler named Jennings Tune achieved the unique record of claiming all 10 wickets in Yorkshire's Howden and District League, playing for Cliffe against Eastrington. What is more interesting is all the dismissals by Tune were clean bowled and he did so without conceding a single run. Cliffe is the only bowler to achieve such a rare feat on this day in 1922. According to cricket historian Abhishek Mukherjee, Cliffe was not the only bowler to achieve such a rare feat. A Dartnell had taken 10 for 0 playing for Broad Green against Thornton Heath in as early as 1867, and since then eight others have managed to do the same before Tune. The achievement of Tune is not enlisted in Cricinfo’s list of bowlers though, who claimed 10 wickets in an innings in a first class or test matches. Jennings Tune bowled all 10 opposition batsman in a span of only 5 overs. It has to be an ultimate dream for any bowler to claim all 10 ten wickets in an innings. And what Tune achieved on that day was simply unremarkable. Former Yorkshire cricketer ‘Sandy Jacques ensured Tune’s name made it to The Guinness Book of World Records. As far as the most clean bowled dismissals by a bowler in an innings is concerned, it was Johnny Briggs of England. Briggs claimed all his 8 wickets bowled against South Africa during the second test match of the 1889 series. Jennings Tune achieved something that will not be easy to replicate – picking 10 wickets, all bowled and not a single run conceded — that too in five overs. Isn’t that an incredible feat!