Dismissed by the first ball of a match

Dismissed by the first ball of a match in Tests

Dismissed by the first ball of a match

Batter	Bowler	Match	Location	Season
AC MacLaren	A Coningham	England v Australia	Melbourne	1894/95
TW Hayward	AEE Vogler	England v South Africa	The Oval	1907
W Bardsley	MW Tate	Australia v England	Leeds	1926
H Sutcliffe	FT Badcock	England v New Zealand	Christchurch	1932/33
TS Worthington	EL McCormick	England v Australia	Brisbane	1936/37
CC Hunte	Fazal Mahmood	West Indies v Pakistan	Port-of-Spain	1957/58
EJ Barlow	GD McKenzie	South Africa v Australia	Durban	1966/67
RC Fredericks	S Abid Ali	West Indies v India	Port-of-Spain	1970/71
KR Stackpole	RJ Hadlee	Australia v New Zealand	Auckland	1973/74
SM Gavaskar	GG Arnold	India v England	Birmingham	1974
SS Naik	AME Roberts	India v West Indies	Kolkata	1974/75
JFM Morrison	GG Arnold	New Zealand v England	Christchurch	1974/75
Mohsin Khan	N Kapil Dev	Pakistan v India	Jullundur	1983/84
SM Gavaskar	MD Marshall	India v West Indies	Kolkata	1983/84
SM Gavaskar	Imran Khan	India v Pakistan	Jaipur	1986/87
WV Raman	RJ Hadlee	India v New Zealand	Napier	1989/90
SJ Cook	N Kapil Dev	South Africa v India	Durban	1992/93
G Kirsten	CEL Ambrose	South Africa v West Indies	Cape Town	1998/99
ST Jayasuriya	GD McGrath	Sri Lanka v Australia	Galle	1999
LV Garrick	AA Donald	West Indies v South Africa	Kingston	2000/01
SS Das	M Dillon	India v West Indies	Bridgetown	2001/02
Hannan Sarkar	PT Collins	Bangladesh v West Indies	Dhaka	2002/03
Hannan Sarkar	PT Collins	Bangladesh v West Indies	Gros Islet	2004
Hannan Sarkar	PT Collins	Bangladesh v West Indies	Kingston	2004
W Jaffer	Mashrafe Mortaza	India v Bangladesh	Chittagong (CDS)	2007
D Ganga	RJ Sidebottom	West Indies v England	Chester-le-Street	2007
TG McIntosh	Mohammad Aamer	New Zealand v Pakistan	Dunedin	2009/10
AJ Strauss	DW Steyn	England v South Africa	Johannesburg	2009/10
CH Gayle	RAS Lakmal	West Indies v Sri Lanka	Pallekele	2010/11
FDM Karunaratne	MA Starc	Sri Lanka v Australia	Galle	2016
KL Rahul	RAS Lakmal	India v Sri Lanka	Kolkata	2017/18
D Elgar	JM Anderson	South Africa v England	Centurion	2019/20
Abdul Malik (1)	B Muzarabani	Afghanistan v Zimbabwe	Abu Dhabi	2020/21
RJ Burns	MA Starc	England v Australia	Brisbane	2021/22
Yashasvi Jaiswal	Mitchell Starc	India v Australia	Adelaide	2024/25

Notes:
*** SJ Cook, LV Garrick and Abdul Malik (1) were making their Test debut.
*** SM Gavaskar (3 times) and Hannan Sarkar (3 times) are the only batsman to appear more than once
*** GG Arnold, RJ Hadlee, Kapil Dev, PT Collins, RAS Lakmal and MA Starc are the only bowlers to appear more than once