England pacer Ollie Robinson created history and emulated Kapil Dev's 43-year-old rare feat during the first day of play between England and Pakistan at the Headingley Cricket Ground in Leeds as the star pacer gave the hosts a dream start in the series by dismissing Azan Awais on the first ball of the match after Joe Root won the toss and chose to bowl first in his first game as full-time captain in his second stint.
Robinson continued his fine form from the series against New Zealand earlier in the home summer and took the new ball. The pacer delivered immediately by trapping the youngster in front of the stumps. The visitors took a review, but it went in vain.
Robinson is only the second bowler in world cricket to dismiss a Pakistani batter on the first ball of a Test match. The only player to achieve the feat was Kapil Dev, when he got the wicket of Mohsin Khan in 1983 in a Test match at Gandhi Stadium in Jalandhar.
Meanwhile, this is only the sixth instance of an English player achieving the feat and the fourth to do it on some soil. No visiting bowler yet has taken a first-ball wicket in a Test match against England. Quite interestingly, the first instance of the same happened exactly 100 years ago, also in Headingley.
English bowlers to take first-ball wicket in a Test Match
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