HowSTAT! Test Cricket - Taking Wicket with First Ball of Match

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Bowlers Taking a Wicket with First Ball* of Match

Bowler	Country	Match	Versus	Ground	Batsman
A Coningham	Australia	29/12/1894	England	Melbourne Cricket Ground	A C MacLaren
A E E Vogler	South Africa	19/08/1907	England	Kennington Oval	T W Hayward
M W Tate	England	10/07/1926	Australia	Headingley	W Bardsley
F T Badcock	New Zealand	24/03/1933	England	AMI Stadium	H Sutcliffe
E L McCormick	Australia	04/12/1936	England	Brisbane Cricket Ground	T S Worthington
Fazal Mahmood	Pakistan	26/03/1958	West Indies	Queen's Park Oval	C C Hunte
G D McKenzie	Australia	20/01/1967	South Africa	Kingsmead	E J Barlow
S Abid Ali	India	06/03/1971	West Indies	Queen's Park Oval	R C Fredericks
R J Hadlee	New Zealand	22/03/1974	Australia	Eden Park	K R Stackpole
G G Arnold	England	04/07/1974	India	Edgbaston	S M Gavaskar
A M E Roberts	West Indies	27/12/1974	India	Eden Gardens	S S Naik
G G Arnold	England	28/02/1975	New Zealand	AMI Stadium	J F M Morrison
Kapil Dev	India	24/09/1983	Pakistan	Gandhi Stadium	Mohsin Khan
M D Marshall	West Indies	10/12/1983	India	Eden Gardens	S M Gavaskar
Imran Khan	Pakistan	21/02/1987	India	Sawai Mansingh Stadium	S M Gavaskar
R J Hadlee	New Zealand	09/02/1990	India	McLean Park	W V Raman
Kapil Dev	India	13/11/1992	South Africa	Kingsmead	S J Cook
C E L Ambrose	West Indies	02/01/1999	South Africa	Newlands	G Kirsten
G D McGrath	Australia	22/09/1999	Sri Lanka	Galle International Stadium	S T Jayasuriya
A A Donald	South Africa	19/04/2001	West Indies	Sabina Park	L V Garrick
M V Dillon	West Indies	02/05/2002	India	Kensington Oval	S S Das
P T Collins	West Indies	08/12/2002	Bangladesh	Bangabandhu National Stadium	Hannan Sarkar
P T Collins	West Indies	28/05/2004	Bangladesh	Daren Sammy National Cricket Stadium	Hannan Sarkar
P T Collins	West Indies	04/06/2004	Bangladesh	Sabina Park	Hannan Sarkar
Mashrafe Mortaza*	Bangladesh	18/05/2007	India	Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium	W Jaffer
R J Sidebottom	England	15/06/2007	West Indies	Riverside Ground	D Ganga
Mohammad Amir*	Pakistan	24/11/2009	New Zealand	University Oval	T G McIntosh
D W Steyn*	South Africa	14/01/2010	England	Wanderers Stadium	A J Strauss
R A S Lakmal*	Sri Lanka	01/12/2010	West Indies	Pallekele International Cricket Stadium	C H Gayle*
M A Starc*	Australia	04/08/2016	Sri Lanka	Galle International Stadium	D Karunaratne*
R A S Lakmal*	Sri Lanka	16/11/2017	India	Eden Gardens	K L Rahul*
J M Anderson*	England	26/12/2019	South Africa	SuperSport Park	D Elgar*
B Muzarabani*	Zimbabwe	02/03/2021	Afghanistan	Sheikh Zayed Stadium	Abdul Malik*
M A Starc*	Australia	08/12/2021	England	Brisbane Cricket Ground	R J Burns*
No. of Players = 34	* Wides and No Balls ignored / Run Outs off first ball excluded

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