Spinner Sam Whitehead registers greatest figures in South African home cricket with 10 wickets for 36 runs

Spin-bowling all-rounder Sam Whitehead grabbed 10 wickets for 36 runs to register the perfect bowling figures in South African home cricket in 115 years. Picture for representational use (Reuters Photo)A South African spinner named Sam Whitehead made historical past on Saturday as he grabbed all 10 wickets in an innings throughout a first-class match to register the best-bowling figures in his nation’s home cricket in 115 years.

Whitehead, who represented South Africa on the 2016 Under-19 World Cup in Bangladesh, completed with an excellent 10-36 to assist South Western Districts bowl Eastern Storm out for 65 in a chase of 186 in Division two of the 4-Day Franchise Series.The 24-year-old loved a superb match general, taking 5-64 within the Easterns’ first innings and contributing 66 and 45 with the bat as his aspect wrapped up a 120-run victory on the third day of their conflict on the Recreation Ground in Oudtshoorn.Whitehead’s figures are the second greatest within the historical past of home cricket in South Africa behind leg-spinner Bert Vogler, who took 10-26 for Eastern Province in opposition to Griqualand West in 1906. (With Reuters inputs)Click right here for IndiaToday.in’s full protection of the coronavirus pandemic.