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Tim Southee took ten wickets in the Lord's Test - but New Zealand still lost. Has this ever happened before in Test cricket? asked Simon Hood from Australia
You'll probably be surprised to discover that Tim Southee's valiant effort at Lord's - he took 10 for 108 but lost - was actually the 69th occasion on which a bowler has bagged ten or more wickets in a Test but finished up on the losing side. Wasim Akram took ten but lost three times, while Muttiah Muralitharan, Tom Richardson, Saeed Ajmal, Hugh Trumble, Daniel Vettori and Shane Warne have all done it twice. The best match figures in defeat are Javagal Srinath's 13 for 132 for India against Pakistan in Kolkata in 1998-99.