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Ed Wells breaks league records with historic 10fer

Ed Wells breaks league records with historic 10fer

Nick Friend

Wellsy's figures of 10 for 15 for the men's 3rd XI are the best recorded in MCCL history

Ed Wells recorded the best figures in MCCL history, taking all ten wickets to fall in an eight-wicket win for the 3rd XI over Indian Gymkhana.

He became just the eighth person in the league's long history to claim a ten-wicket haul, with his figures - 10 for 15 in 14.1 overs - the best the competition has ever seen.

All ten wickets fell to catches, with eight coming in front of the wicket.

Only once in the club's 151-year history had someone previously taken all ten in an innings. Jon Lederman twice took nine but was on the losing side on both occasions; John Webster claimed 10 for 18 for the 3rd XI in 1965 against Edmonton.

According to the substantial Cricket Archive database, there have been just nine better sets of bowling figures anywhere in the world in the 21st century.

Dom Rawlings, who took four catches, nearly snuck a yorker through Gymkhana's No.11, but fortunately the tailender dug out the delivery.

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