Just who are Ajaz Patel's illustrious mates Jim Laker and Anil Kumble?

Ajaz Patel wrote himself into the cricket history books on Saturday night with his remarkable 10-wicket haul in New Zealand’s test against India in Mumbai.

The 33-year-old left-arm spinner captured 10-119 off 47.5 overs in the hosts’ first innings at Wankhede Stadium, becoming just the third person in the history of international cricket to dismiss a whole side on their own.

But just who are the other two players – Jim Laker and Anil Kumble – the Black Caps spinner has now joined in the most illustrious of clubs and how did their feats stack up?

JIM LAKER – 10-53 (51.2 overs) for England v Australia, Manchester, 1956

Funnily enough, just like Patel, Laker was actually a seam bowler before turning to off-spin during his school days.

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And, gee, didn’t that move pay off and then some.

Thanks to his stunning deeds in England’s 1956 home Ashes series triumph over Australia, Laker, who died in 1986, still holds the record for the best test bowling figures – in both an innings and a match.

The fourth test of that series, at Old Trafford in Manchester, became known as ‘Laker’s Match’ after he claimed an astonishing 19 wickets, which to this day also remains a record in first-class cricket, too.

Warming up for the series, Laker took a casual 10 wickets in an innings for Surrey against the Australians, then a couple of months later went on to terrorise them even more.

After winning the toss and batting, England piled on 459 before Laker got to work on day two, sending Australia spiralling from 48-1 to 84 all out as he claimed 9-37 off 16.4 overs.

Then, in the tourists’ follow-on, the then 34-year-old ridiculously bettered that with his perfect 10.

With the pitch taking prodigious turn, Laker was unstoppable, and though rain threatened to cut the match short, with just over an hour of play remaining on the final day he trapped No 11 wicketkeeper Len Maddocks lbw to complete the 10-for, an innings and 170-run win, and the Ashes retention.

Just five years prior to his amazing exploits, Laker had been turning out for Auckland, and even considered making New Zealand home.

After getting married just prior to the 1951 season, he then took his wife, Lilly, for what was effectively an extended honeymoon during the English winter and was a player-coach for Auckland.

He played four matches in the 51-52 season and took 24 wickets, and was selected as the New Zealand Cricket Almanack Player of the Year in 1952.

And after liking their five-month stay so much, the Lakers seriously thought about emigrating, only for Jim to decide that his cricketing future was in England and he declined the association’s offer of an extension for the following season.

Laker went on to play a total of 46 tests, ending with 193 wickets at an average of 21.24.

ANIL KUMBLE – 10-74 (26.3 overs) for India v Pakistan, Delhi, 1999

Some 43 years after Laker’s feat, there was finally another member in the pantheon of test bowling.

And it was another tweaker, in the form of India leg-spinner Kumble.

In a lengthy test career that spanned from 1990 to 2008, Kumble’s 10-for heroics came right at the halfway point, in 1999.

And, like Laker’s, in the Ashes, it was fitting that such an accomplishment would come in a matchup with so much meaning, with the setting being a test against fierce rivals Pakistan, in Delhi.

Pakistan had won a thrilling first test in Chennai by 12 runs, so the hosts were looking to draw the series in the second and final test.

After winning the toss, India posted 252 then, thanks to Kumble’s 4-75, the visitors were dismissed for 172.

The home side then racked up 339 to set Pakistan a daunting 420 – what to this day would still be a record fourth-innings score to win – with almost two full days remaining.

An opening stand of 101 had the tourists on their way to potentially something special, but then Kumble weaved his magic in the 36 overs that followed.

After breaking the first-wicket partnership by having Shahid Afridi caught behind, he then trapped Ijaz Ahmed in front first ball and the crumble was on.

Two overs of his later Kumble took two wickets in three balls to dismiss Inzamam-ul-Haq and Mohammad, then he later got two in two as he claimed his eighth and ninth with his last balls of his 26th over.

That then left Javagal Srinath with six balls at captain Wasim Akram and Waqar Younis, but the crafty seamer – the match referee in this current test – famously then deliberately bowled wide of the stumps and a plan was hatched for fielders to drop any potential catches in order to give Kumble fair crack at the 10-for.

The plan almost came unstuck, though, as Sadagopan Ramesh, seemingly forgetting the Kumble conundrum, ran for a Younis top edge at square leg, only to not make it anyway.

Kumble then did the business next over. After Akram played and missed at the first ball, then jammed down in defence on the second, he inside edged the third for VVS Laxman to take a smart catch to complete the 212-run win and set off highly emotional scenes.

Going on to play a total of 132 tests, Kumble claimed 619 wickets – which currently has him fourth on the all-time list – at an average of 29.65.

Following his retirement, Kumble has stayed in the game in coaching and administrative roles, just last month stepping down as chairman of the ICC Men’s Cricket Committee, having served his maximum three three-year terms.

On Saturday night he welcomed Patel to “the club” in a Twitter message, then also congratulated him in a video with the match’s host broadcaster, Star Sports.