Best bowling in an innings — Test cricket
JC Laker is the first listed entry with 10 wickets for 53 runs in Redball’s recorded data for Test · International. Equal totals are ordered as explained below.
Leading recorded entries
| Player | Figures | Opposition | Date | Explore |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| JC Laker | 10/53 | Australia | 1956-07-26 | Scorecard → |
| A Kumble | 10/74 | Pakistan | 1999-02-04 | Scorecard → |
| AY Patel | 10/119 | India | 2021-12-03 | Scorecard → |
| GA Lohmann | 9/28 | South Africa | 1896-03-02 | Scorecard → |
| JC Laker | 9/37 | Australia | 1956-07-26 | Scorecard → |
| M Muralitharan | 9/51 | Zimbabwe | 2002-01-04 | Scorecard → |
| RJ Hadlee | 9/52 | Australia | 1985-11-08 | Scorecard → |
| Abdul Qadir | 9/56 | England | 1987-11-25 | Scorecard → |
| DE Malcolm | 9/57 | South Africa | 1994-08-18 | Scorecard → |
| M Muralitharan | 9/65 | England | 1998-08-27 | Scorecard → |
Ordered by wickets, then fewer runs conceded. Equal figures use match date and innings identifier for stable ordering. Domestic first-class records exclude Tests. Entries tied at the tenth-row cutoff may not all be shown.
Recorded match dates: 1877-03-15 to 2026-09-09. Date spans do not imply complete coverage. Career aggregates may cover a different set of matches.
Displayed source rows last updated: unavailable. Figures retrieved: 2026-10-02. This is not a live score feed.
Source: Redball’s recorded statistics. Methodology, definitions and coverage.
This is not a live score feed.