Unique Records: Not one or two, 7 batsmen were out on 0, for the first time in 70 years the Indian great returned with his face hanging like this

New Delhi. The Indian team was all out for 46 runs in the first innings of the first Test against New Zealand. Team India compensated for this in the second innings and scored more than 10 times the runs. Total 462 runs. But do you know that despite this, India equaled such a 72 year old record, which no team wants. In this match, 7 batsmen of India were out on 0.

The first Test match of the three-match series is being played between India and New Zealand in Bengaluru. In this match, Virat Kohli, Sarfaraz Khan, KL Rahul, Ravindra Jadeja, Ravichandran Ashwin could not even open their account in the first innings. Jasprit Bumrah and Mohammad Siraj were out on 0 in the second innings. In this way, 7 batsmen of India returned to 0 once each in the match. This was the second time in Indian history and the first time in the last 72 years, when so many batsmen of Team India returned to the pavilion with their faces hanging.

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The Indian team had previously faced such a situation in England in 1952. Then in the Leeds Test match, the Indian team was out after scoring 293 runs in the first innings and 165 runs in the second innings. England, which scored 334 runs in the first innings, won the match by 7 wickets. This match was played between 5 and 9 June.

Three batsmen of the Indian team under the captaincy of Vijay Hazare could not open their account in the first innings and 4 batsmen could not open their account in the second innings. In the first innings, C. Gopinath, Gulabrai Ramchand and Ghulam Aham were out on 0. In the second innings, India’s top-3 batsmen Pankaj Roy, Dutta Gaikwad, Madhav Mantri and Vijay Manjrekar could not open the account.

Manjrekar and Sarfaraz’s 0 and century too
In the Bengaluru Test match against New Zealand, Sarfaraz Khan scored 150 runs in the second innings after being out for 0 in the first innings. Vijay Manjrekar also scored 133 runs before being out for 0 in the Leeds Test match in 1952. In this way, both these Mumbai batsmen are included in that list in which a batsman has scored a century and also got out on 0 in the same test match.

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