Nikita Miller misses on all 10 wickets, still sets West Indies domestic record

Jacobs’s wicket meant that Nikita Miller, the left-arm finger-spinner who has played a Test, 46 ODIs, and 9 T20Is for West Indies, missed out on the rare feat of taking all 10 wickets in an innings.

Cricket statisticians across the world groaned in exasperation when Jamaican Damion Jacobs trapped Trinidad & Tobago’s Roshon Primus leg-before in the WICB Professional Cricket League Regional 4 Day Tournament match at Sabina Park, Jamaica. Jacobs’s wicket meant that Nikita Miller, the left-arm finger-spinner who has played a Test, 46 ODIs, and 9 T20Is for West Indies, missed out on the rare feat of taking all 10 wickets in an innings. Miller finished with figures of 22-5-41-9, the best bowling figures in West Indies domestic cricket. The record was previously held by Ryan Hinds, who had claimed 9 for 68 for Barbados against Leeward Islands at Charlestown, back in 2000-01.

Had Miller taken all 10 wickets in the innings, he would also have recorded the best First-Class figures in 11-a-side First-Class matches on West Indian soil. The only man to have achieved the feat in a match in West Indies, whose 10 wickets for an International XI against a West Indies XI in 1982-83 had come at the cost of 175 runs. Back in 1900-01, Delmont Cameron St Clair ‘Fitz’ Hinds had taken 10 for 36 in a First-Class match for AB St Hill’s XI against Trinidad at Queen’s Park Oval, but that was a 12-a-side contest.

Then, in the 55th over of the match (Miller’s 22nd), wicketkeeper Steven Katwaroo fell off the first ball, Marlon Richards off the third, and Jon-Russ Jaggesar off the fifth, but Sheldon Cottrell survived the last ball. Primus played out five balls from Jacobs at the other end before being trapped leg-before off the sixth. The last four wickets fell without the addition of a run.

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