The feat in cricket of a bowler taking ten wickets in a single innings of a first-class match is rare and has been recorded 83 times by 77 different players to the start of the 2014 English cricket season. The earliest known instance was by Edmund Hinkly in 1848, though it may have been done in earlier times when scorecard compilation was rudimentary and catches were not credited as wickets to bowlers. Tich Freeman achieved it three times and three other players – W. G. Grace, Hedley Verity and Jim Laker – have done it twice. Laker (in 1956), Anil Kumble (in 1999) and Ajaz Patel (in 2021) have achieved this feat in Test cricket.