Composing one from the cricketers with their last names starting with L, CricketCountry Historian Arunabha Sengupta finds plenty of style and substance, balance and brilliance, with perhaps the most potent bowling attack.
This is a thought that has been bothering me for some time now, more so since Australia had decided to rest their frontline bowlers during the ODI series in South Africa.
Maddocks found a place in history, as the man who made Laker the first to take 10 wickets in a Test innings and 19 wickets in a First-Class match.
Alan Stanley Myles Oakman was born April 20, 1930 at Hastings, Sussex, and was educated at Hastings Grammar School and Cambridge University, playing cricket for both institutions as a right-hand batsman and off-break bowler.
The bizarre celebrations were restricted to soccer where somersaults were a frequent sight but not imaginable in cricket. However, the advent of T20, cricket has begun to find its share of weirdness too.
The feat remains untouched till date and on this occasion; Virender Sehwag and English speedster Stuart Broad remember his outing.
Ahead of the second England-Pakistan Test, let's take a look at the history of the venue Old Trafford, where England have so far played 75 Tests, winning 26, losing 14 while 35 Tests have ended in a draw.
Put a 150-wicket cut-off, and you will find that Laker has the best bowling average among all spinners in the history of Test cricket.
Local boy Stuart Broad surely must have been pepped up by his captain’s comment as he went on to architect the Australian devastation.
Watch Jim Laker take 19 wickets in a Test against Australia.