Yasir Shah joins Lord’s spin greats

Pakistan's Yasir Shah (C) is congratulated after taking the wicket of England's Jonny Bair
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London (AFP) – Yasir Shah took 10 wickets in a Test for the first time in his career as the leg-spinner bowled Pakistan to a 75-run win over England at Lord’s on Sunday.

The 30-year-old Shah, who earlier this year served a three-month drugs ban after saying he had taken his wife’s blood pressure medication instead of his own, now has a brilliant Test record.

In just 13 matches, he has taken 86 wickets at an average of just 23 apiece.

His second-innings haul of four for 69 gave man-of-the-match Shah an overall return for this Test of 10 for 141.

That made him the first spinner to take 10 wickets in a Lord’s Test since England’s Derek Underwood in 1974 and just the sixth in all.

Below is the select group Shah has now joined.

Spinners taking 10 wickets in a Test at Lord’s (player, country, overs, wickets, runs, opposition, year):

Johnny Briggs    (ENG)  11-74  v AUS  1886

Hedley Verity    (ENG)  15-104 v AUS  1934

Sonny Ramadhin   (WIS)  11-152 v ENG  1950

Roy Tattersall   (ENG)  12-101 v RSA  1951

Derek Underwood  (ENG)  11-70  v NZL  1969

Derek Underwood  (ENG)  13-71  v PAK  1974

Yasir Shah       (PAK)  10-141 v ENG  2016

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