Workforce India’s explosive opener Yashasvi Jaiswal failed to hold on his elegant batting contact within the first inning of the Adelaide Check, on Friday, December 6, as he bought dismissed by pacer Mitchell Starc on the primary ball of the sport. Notably, Jaiswal was coming into the sport after smacking a daddy hundred (161 runs) in Perth. Nevertheless, Starc bought the higher of him after he trapped the southpaw in entrance of the wicket.
For the unversed, the continuing day-night Check is an important a part of the continuing Border-Gavaskar Trophy (BGT 2024-25). Because of this, the 22-year-old bought himself enlisted into an undesirable report which additionally consists of the legendary, Sunil Gavaskar. Courtesy of the LBW (Leg Earlier than Wicket dismissal), Yashasvi Jaiswal grew to become solely the seventh batter to have dismissed on the primary ball of a Check match.
Fairly astonishingly, Gavaskar was the primary Indian batter to undergo the wrath of a pacer upfront within the type of the previous England bowler, Geoff Arnold, when he was dismissed on the primary ball of the Manchester Check in 1974. Fascinatingly, this incident didn’t occur simply as soon as for the previous India legend as suffered the identical destiny on two extra events.
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West Indies’ fiery pacer Malcolm Marshall handed the now 75-year-old, a first-ball dismissal in Kolkata within the closing phases of the yr 1983. Thereafter, Pakistan’s former Skipper and tempo legend, Imran Khan, too claimed Sunil Gavaskar‘s wicket on the primary supply throughout a Check performed in Jaipur within the yr 1987.
Indian batters dismissed on first ball of a Check match
Participant Title |
Bowler |
Opponent |
Match Venue |
12 months |
Sunil Gavaskar |
Geoff Arnold |
England |
Manchester |
1974 |
Sudhir Naik |
Andy Roberts |
West Indies |
Kolkata |
1974 |
Sunil Gavaskar |
Malcolm Marshall |
West Indies |
Kolkata |
1983 |
Sunil Gavaskar |
Imran Khan |
Pakistan |
Jaipur |
1987 |
WV Raman |
Richard Hadlee |
New Zealand |
Napier |
1990 |
Shiv Sunder Das |
Mervyn Dillon |
West Indies |
Bridgetown |
2002 |
Wasim Jaffer |
Mashrafe Mortaza |
Bangladesh |
Chattogram |
2007 |
KL Rahul |
Suranga Lakmal |
Sri Lanka |
Kolkata |
2017 |
Yashasvi Jaiswal |
Mitchell Starc |
Australia |
Adelaide |
2024* |
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