5 bowlers with incredible stats you've probably never heard of

#1.Alf Valentine- Figures of 92-49-140-3 in a Test match inning

Sonny Ramadhin and Alf Valentine

If anything, Alf Valentine was a bowling machine in the form of a human. He had impeccable physical fitness along with immense mental strength that enabled him to bowl over after over without getting tired.

Representing West Indies, Valentine bowled 12953 deliveries in 63 Test innings, on average 34.26 overs per innings which is a humungous task. He wasn't just an effective line and length bowler but was also a master of purchasing turn and drift.

His slow left-arm bowling was so effective that West Indies team of that era dominated world cricket without having a genuine pacer in their ranks.

The West Indian spinner registered these incredible figures while bowling against England in 1950 at Nottingham. West Indies accumulated vital first innings lead but England came back strongly in the second innings with their top-order batsmen notching up vital runs.

To keep the noose tight on the batsmen and to prevent England from scoring quick runs, Valentine bowled 92 overs of which 49 were maidens. He ended up with three wickets while his accomplice, Sonny Ramadhin registered figures of 81.2-25-135-5. The visitors won the match by ten wickets and Valentine inked his name in the record books for bowling the most number of maidens in an inning.