England leg-spinner Rehan Ahmed has become the first English player since Ian Botham to score a century and take 13 wickets in a first-class match.
On day three of the Leicestershire-Derbyshire County Championship 2025 division two match, Rehan became only the fourth Englishman this century to achieve the rare double of 100 runs and 10 wickets in a match. The feat came after he reduced Derbyshire to 87-4 during Leicestershire’s defence of a 446-run target.
Rehan added three more wickets on the final day, dismissing opposition keeper Brooke Guest (32), Zak Chappell (50), and Blair Tickner (0). He finished with 7-93 from 40 overs as Derbyshire were bowled out for 256, losing by 189 runs. In the process, he surpassed his previous career-best figures of 6-51 from the first innings and entered the record books yet again for multiple feats.
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Rehan’s 13 wickets in the match are the best figures by a Leicestershire bowler in a first-class match this century. The last bowler to take that many wickets for the county was Phil DeFreitas, who achieved the feat in a 1986 Championship match against Essex.
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A simply 𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗼𝘂𝘀 performance, Reh. 🤯#Foxes🦊 pic.twitter.com/uI1LKF1dtn
Rehan joins elite company
He also became the fifth Leicestershire player to achieve the double of a century and 10 wickets in a first-class match. The others to do so were Dick Pougher (v Essex, 1894), Frederic Geeson (v Derbyshire, 1901), Vic Jackson (v Kent, 1954), and David Millns (v Essex, 1996). Among them, only Pougher (14-89) had better match figures than Rehan’s 13-144, while Rehan's 141 runs (115, 26) is the highest match aggregate in this five-member club.
Rehan also became the first Englishman since 1980 to score a century and take as many as 13 wickets in the same first-class match. The last one to do so was Ian Botham, who scored 114 and took match figures of 13-106 (6-58 and 7-48) in the 1980 Mumbai Test against India at Wankhede Stadium, powering England to a 10-wicket victory.
