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dated May 18, 1956: Laker's grand feat

J.C. Laker, 34-year-old Surrey and England off-spinner, bowled out the Australians on his own at The Oval in London on May 16. He took all ten wickets in the tourists' first innings against Surrey to achieve the finest performance of his career. Laker's ten wickets cost him 88 runs. His final figures were 46 overs, 18 maidens, 88 runs, ten wickets. The not out batsman was K.R. Miller, the Australian Vice-Captain, who scored 57 in two hours. Only once before have all ten Australian wickets been taken by an English bowler - in 1878, when E. Barratt, also a Surrey bowler, made a clean sweep of the first Australian touring team when they met The Players at The Oval.

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