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Jaiswal was trapped in front of the wickets by Mitchell Starc on the first ball of the 2nd India-Australia Test, which is currently underway at the Adelaide Oval.
Yashasvi Jaiswal becomes the 7th Indian batter to get out on the first ball of a Test match. (Picture Credit: X/@ICC, AP)
Yashasvi Jaiswal failed to open his account in the first innings of the ongoing second Test between India and Australia, which got underway at the Adelaide Oval on Friday (December 6). The 22-year-old left-handed batter was trapped in front of the wickets by Australian fast bowler Mitchell Starc on the first ball of the day-night Test. By getting out for a first-ball duck, Jaiswal, who is India’s highest-ranked Test batter at present times, joined legendary Sunil Gavaskar in an unwanted list.
Jaiswal, who scored 161 runs in the second innings of the first Test played between India and Australia in Perth last month, became the seventh Indian batter to get out on the first ball of a Test match.
Gavaskar was the first Indian batter to achieve the unwanted feat. He was dismissed by right-arm pacer Geoff Arnold on the first ball of the 1974 Test played between India and England in Manchester from June 4 to 8.
The 75-year-old former cricketer, who was the first player in Test cricket’s history to score 10,000 runs, got out for a platinum duck on two more occasions during his playing career. Malcolm Marshall of the West Indies dismissed him for a first-ball duck during the Kolkata Test played in December 1983, and Pakistan’s Imran Khan got rid of Gavaskar on the first ball of the India-Pakistan Test played in Jaipur from February 21 to 26 in 1987.
Indian batters to get dismissed on the first ball of a Test match
| BATTER | BOWLER | OPPOSITION | VENUE | YEAR |
| 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 |
Apart from Gavaskar and Jaiswal, Sudhir Naik (vs West Indies in Kolkata, December 1974), WV Raman (vs New Zealand in Napier, February 1990), Shiv Sunder Das (vs West Indies in Bridgetown, May 2002), Wasim Jaffer (vs Bangladesh in Chattogram, May 2007), and KL Rahul (vs Sri Lanka in Kolkata, November 2017) also returned back to the pavilion on the first ball of a Test match.
5-wicket haul for Starc
During Day 1’s play of the ongoing second India-Australia Test in Adelaide, after removing Jaiswal, Starc got rid of KL Rahul and Virat Kohli in the first session and dismissed R Ashwin and Harshit Rana in the second session to complete his maiden five-wicket haul in Test cricket against India.
