English bowler takes 10-wicket bag

An amateur cricketer took all 10 wickets in an innings in a club match in England.

An amateur cricketer took all 10 wickets in an innings in a club match in England.

Joe Dawborn returned with figures of 10-22 for Peterborough Town against Brixworth in the Northants Premier League.

The 21-year-old is looking to make it into first-class cricket while he currently works for his dad as a labourer.

He's currently representing Northants' second team on non-contract basis and he's had trials with Middlesex and Leicestershire.

His teammate Jamie Smith told BBC Sport: "I was trying my best to ruin it. It was magical. I was bowling at the other end and every time he delivered a ball it looked like he'd get a wicket.

"Once they (Brixworth) were seven or eight wickets down they seemed to give up, as if they knew it would happen. He's just a different class."

Dawborn's figures are the best in the Northants Premier League since 1968 and he's already got more wickets this season than anyone else in the division.

He's also playing for Cambridgeshire in the Minor Counties Championship in the UK and Lloyd Tennant, academy director at Leicestershire, said the County Championship club were tracking him.

"Joe's got a good work ethic and is desperate to be a pro," said Tennant. "I'm sure at some point a door will open for him.

"He's very accurate and moves the ball off the seam. He's not unlike Leicestershire all-rounder Ben Raine - he relentlessly bowls good line and length."