4 incredible all-rounders who hit 100 runs and took a 10-for in the same Test

Archie Starkey 14 Dec 2024

Shakib Al Hasan has been among the best all-rounders in Test cricket for an extended period.

Centuries and wickets are essential to a winning formula in Test cricket.

Key contributions are paramount for success with the best players, those who rack up runs and wickets with immense regularity.

Batters keep their place in the side by gathering strings of scores, while bowlers need to take wickets to prove their worth in the side.

For all-rounders, bad innings in the middle can be redeemed with the ball in hand, and a few crucial wickets can overshadow a lacklustre cameo with the bat.

There have been several all-rounders in the history of Test cricket who have shone with both bat and ball.

But how many of these made game-changing impacts with both bat and ball in a Test match for their country?

Here are four players who collected 100 runs and took ten wickets in a match…

4. Alan Davidson, Australia

The left-arm all-rounder had a match for the ages when Australia hosted the West Indies in Brisbane in 1960.

With 11 wickets through figures of 5/135 and 6/87, as well as 124 runs in the match, Davidson was the first Test player to ever achieve this feat.

3. Shakib Al Hasan, Bangladesh

A staple in Bangladesh‘s Test side over the last decade, Al Hasan has had a monumental impact on his country’s results through all formats of the game.

In 2014. while hosting Zimbabwe in Khulna, the left-arm spinner took ten wickets in the match for 124 runs across both innings.

He then tonned up in Bangladesh’s first innings with a further game-defining contribution of 137 runs.

2. Imran Khan, Pakistan

Pakistan hosted fierce rivals India in 1983 when all-rounder Imran Khan stepped up to the plate.

He took figures of 6/98 in the first inning of the match and then whittled away with the bat to back up his stellar bowling with a century, scoring 117 runs for his team.

With no rest, Khan was asked to bowl and cleaned up their neighbours with five wickets for 82 runs.

1. Ian Botham, England

One of the iconic English all-rounders, who is all over the record books, dominated England’s 1980 victory in Wankhede, India.

Just two wickets short of 15 and a record of his own, Botham took a staggering 13 wickets for just 106 runs across both of India’s innings.

He struck an impressive century with his 114 runs, rounding off one of the most dominant individual performances from a player in the history of Test cricket.