AUS vs IND: Yashasvi Jaiswal’s ‘golden duck’ on First Ball

Team India’s explosive opener Yashasvi Jaiswal failed to carry on his sublime batting touch in the first inning of the Adelaide Test, on Friday, December 6, as he got dismissed by pacer Mitchell Starc on the first ball of the game. Notably, Jaiswal was coming into the game after smacking a daddy hundred (161 runs) in Perth. However, Starc got the better of him after he trapped the southpaw in front of the wicket.

For the unversed, the ongoing day-night Test is a vital part of the ongoing Border-Gavaskar Trophy (BGT 2024-25). As a result, the 22-year-old got himself enlisted into an unwanted record which also consists of the legendary, Sunil Gavaskar. Courtesy of the LBW (Leg Before Wicket dismissal), Yashasvi Jaiswal became only the seventh batter to have dismissed on the first ball of a Test match.

Quite astonishingly, Gavaskar was the first Indian batter to suffer the wrath of a pacer upfront in the form of the former England bowler, Geoff Arnold, when he was dismissed on the first ball of the Manchester Test in 1974. Fascinatingly, this incident did not happen just once for the former India legend as suffered the same fate on two more occasions.

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West Indies’ fiery pacer Malcolm Marshall handed the now 75-year-old, a first-ball dismissal in Kolkata in the closing phases of the year 1983. Thereafter, Pakistan’s former Skipper and pace legend, Imran Khan, too claimed Sunil Gavaskar‘s wicket on the first delivery during a Test played in Jaipur in the year 1987.

Indian batters dismissed on first ball of a Test match

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