Vinay Kumar
On the first day of the first match of the AUS vs IND Test series being played in Nagpur, deadly fast bowler Mohammed Shami registered a record of taking 400 wickets in international cricket career and became the fifth Indian fast bowler to take 400 or more wickets. Joined the exclusive club of Kapil Dev and Zaheer Khan. Spinner Ravichandran Ashwin also made a big record in his name.
He completed 450 wickets in Test cricket as soon as he took the wicket of Australia’s wicket-keeper Alex Carey on Thursday and became India’s second highest Test wicket-taker in the history of Test cricket. In the first innings of this match, he took a total of 3 wickets and by the end of the first day’s play, he had 452 wickets in his Test career.
Significantly, the highest wicket-taker in the history of Test cricket was Indian bowler Anil Kumble, who took a total of 609 wickets in his career. But, on the first day of this match, an embarrassing record was also recorded in the name of Indian batsman Virat Kohli, who is counted among the greatest batsmen in the world.
The great batsman Virat Kohli, who returned to his explosive signature form after almost 3 years, was once again seen disappointing in the fielding. During the first day match of India vs Australia (IND vs AUS Nagpur Test Match, 2023), Virat Kohli fielding at slip dropped the catch of Steve Smith. As soon as he missed this catch, Virat Kohli registered an embarrassing record in his name.
Significantly, the first match of the Test series between India vs Australia is going on in Nagpur. On the first day of this match, during the batting of Australia’s first innings, Virat Kohli disappointed the sports fans with his poor fielding. Actually it happened that Akshar Patel had come to bowl the 16th over of the first day’s bowling for India. During this, Steve Smith wanted to play a shot on his very first ball, but the ball went out touching Virat Kohli standing behind. Steve Smith would have been out as soon as he caught this catch. But, Kohli could not catch this catch. Catch missed. Please tell that this was the 100th catch of Kohli’s career. Even before this, Virat has dropped catches many times.
Playing-XI of both countries in AUS vs IND Nagpur Test
India
Rohit Sharma (Captain), KL Rahul, Cheteshwar Pujara, Virat Kohli, Suryakumar Yadav, Shrikar Bharat (KS Bharat Wicket-keeper), Ravindra Jadeja, Ravichandran Ashwin, Akshar Patel , Mohammed Shami, Mohammed Siraj.
Australia
David Warner Usman Khawaja, Marnus Labuschagne, Steve Smith, Matt Renshaw, Peter Handscomb, Alex Carey Wicket-keeper, Pat Cummins Captain , Nathan Lyon, Todd Murphy, Scott Boland.