Opening Day of Test Cricket With The Most Wickets in 122 years – South Africa vs India

Indian Cricket team is in South Africa playing 2 test match series against the home team. After the embarrassing defeat in the first test, Team India was looking to make a strong comeback in the 2nd test, and boy oh boy, what an overall bowling performance was shown by the Indian Bowlers. Md. Siraj with his spectacular bowling performance took 6 wickets and let Team India from the front, whereas J. Bumrah and Mukesh Kumar both got 2 wickets. However when Indian batters came to bat, they did not bat well, and the first day of the 2nd Test went all the way to the bowlers of both the teams. For South Africa Rabada, Burger and Ngidi took 3 wickets and dominated Indian Batters, When South Africa came to bat again they lost 3 wickets till the end of day 1 already.

Overall it was a day of Bowlers. Every bowler dominated the opposition batters and in the entire day 1, we say 23 wickets being taken, which itself is a big record in cricket. 23 wickets in a day is the second most on the opening day of a Test match in 147 years of the game’s history. The first was 25 wickets recorded on Day 1 of the second Ashes 1901/02 Test between Australia and England in Melbourne.

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