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- From: banarji@unixg.ubc.ca (Ajai Banarji)
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- Subject: Dismissed first ball....
- Date: 19 Nov 1992 03:06:57 GMT
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- Dismissed first ball....
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- Sorry, Wisden does NOT have a list of batsmen dismissed off the first ball
- of a test, though it does have a list of bowlers who took a wicket with their
- first ball in test cricket.
- This list does appear in "Figures of Cricket" by Sudhir Vaidya, although
- I don't have it now. Offhand, here are a few instances in recent years:
- Roy Fredericks-dismissed by Abid Ali at Port-of-Spain in 1970-71
- This was India's first win against WI, and the setting for
- Gavaskar's debut
- Sudhir Naik-by Andy Roberts, Calcutta, 1974-75
- Poor Sudhir is better known for the "socks episode" during
- the 1974 tour of England.
- Sunil Gavaskar-by Geoff Arnold (?) at Edgbaston (?) in 1974 AND
- by Andy Roberts at Calcutta in 1983-84
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- Others have given more recent instances.
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