London: Yasir Shah took 10 wickets in a Test for the first time in his career as the leg-spinner bowled Pakistan to a 75-run win over England at Lord’s on Sunday.
The 30-year-old Shah, who earlier this year served a three-month drugs ban after saying he had taken his wife’s blood pressure medication instead of his own, now has a brilliant Test record.
In just 13 matches, he has taken 86 wickets at an average of just 23 apiece.
His second-innings haul of four for 69 gave man-of-the-match Shah an overall return for this Test of 10 for 141.
That made him the first spinner to take 10 wickets in a Lord’s Test since England’s Derek Underwood in 1974 and just the sixth in all.
Below is the select group Shah has now joined.
Spinners taking 10 wickets in a Test at Lord’s (player, country, overs, wickets, runs, opposition, year):
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| Johnny Briggs (ENG) | 11-74 | v AUS | 1886 |
| Hedley Verity (ENG) | 15-104 | v AUS | 1934 |
| Sonny Ramadhin (WIS) | 11-152 | v ENG | 1950 |
| Roy Tattersall (ENG) | 12-101 | v RSA | 1951 |
| Derek Underwood (ENG) | 11-70 | v NZL | 1969 |
| Derek Underwood (ENG) | 13-71 | v PAK | 1974 |
| Yasir Shah (PAK) | 10-141 | v ENG | 2016 |
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