#match figures

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Lohmann's 15 for 45 and Hat-Trick — South Africa All Out 30, 1896

South Africa v England

1896-02-13

Three weeks before the 9/28 at Old Wanderers, George Lohmann took 7 for 38 and 8 for 7 — match figures of 15 for 45 — at Port Elizabeth, dismissing South Africa for 30 in the second innings and ending the match with a hat-trick. The 30 all out remained the lowest Test innings total for sixty years; the 15/45 was then the best match analysis in Test cricket. The First Test of the 1895-96 series ran two days.

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⭐Serious

Tom Richardson's Old Trafford Heroism — 13 for 244 in a Lost Test, 1896

England v Australia

1896-07-16

In the same Old Trafford Test that produced Ranjitsinhji's debut 154*, England's fast bowler Tom Richardson took 7 for 168 and 6 for 76 — match figures of 13 for 244 from 110 overs of fast bowling. He bowled unchanged for three hours on the final afternoon as Australia scrabbled to 125 for 7 chasing 125 to win. Australia held on by three wickets. Richardson's spell is one of the great lost-cause performances in Test history.

#tom-richardson#1896#old-trafford

⭐Moderate

Hugh Trumble's 12 for 89 — Australia's Off-Spinner Bowls Through a Losing Test, Oval August 1896

England v Australia

1896-08-10

On a damp Oval pitch in August 1896, Australia's off-spinner Hugh Trumble took 6 for 59 and 6 for 30 — match figures of 12 for 89 — yet finished on the losing side. Australia, set 111 to win, collapsed to 19 for 8 and were all out for 44, England winning the third Test and the series 2-1. Wisden called Trumble 'on all wickets distinctly the best bowler on the side'; the match remains one of cricket's most celebrated bowling efforts in defeat.

#hugh-trumble#1896#the-oval

⭐Serious

Spofforth's 14 for 90 — The Demon at The Oval, 1882

England v Australia

1882-08-29

Fred 'The Demon' Spofforth took 7 for 46 and 7 for 44 at The Oval in August 1882, match figures of 14 for 90 that bowled Australia to a 7-run win and gave birth to the Ashes legend. The second-innings spell — bowled in tandem with Harry Boyle — broke an England chase of just 85 and stood as the best match analysis in Test cricket for 31 years.

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