India, Aug. 2 -- When Jim Laker produced a 'perfect 10'

Great achievements that magnify human endeavour have a timeless quality - climbing Mount Everest for the first time or running the first sub-four minute mile, for instance.

Test cricket's greatest single performance came in the summer of 1956, when England off-spinner Jim Laker made history by becoming the first bowler to capture all 10 wickets in an innings.

Laker's magnificent 10/53 came in the Australian second innings of the fourth Ashes Test at Old Trafford, after a near-perfect storm had hit their first innings where he captured 9/37. Laker's match haul of 19/90 remains the greatest bowling feat in Test cricket by some distance. No one else has claimed more than 17 wickets e...