Afghanistan's First Test

Afghanistan's First Test

Afghanistan's defeat by an innings and 262 runs is the heaviest by a country in their debut Test. West Indies and Pakistan are the only other countries to lose by an innings whilst Australia remain the only team to win their first Test. Zimbabwe are the only side to draw. The 168 partnership between Murali Vijay and Shikhar Dhawan is the highest opening stand against a side making its Test debut. Indeed, this is the only opening century stand, the previous best being 66 for India vs Bangladesh in Dhaka in 2000-01. Afghanistan's match aggregate of 212 runs is the lowest by any country in its debut Test. The previous lowest was South Africa's 213 in 1888-89 at Port Elizabeth. India's 474 is the highest first innings total made against a debut country. The previous highest totals were 429 by India against Bangladesh and 401 by England against West Indies. Afghanistan's first innings total of 109 is the second-lowest debut batting total, South Africa making only 84 at Port Elizabeth in 1888-89. Afghanistan's Rashid Khan and Mujeeb Zadran became the fifth and sixth Test cricketers to be dismissed twice by the same bowler on the same day of their country's first Test. The same happened to Pakistan's Maqsood Ahmed and Khan Mohammad and Learie Constantine and Karl Nunes of the West Indies. Murali Vijay and Shikhar Dhawan became the first openers to score centuries against a country making its Test debut. Vijay and Dhawan's stand is the first occurrence of both openers making centuries at Bangalore and the seventh such in India. Dhawan became the first Indian batsman to score a hundred before lunch on the first day of a Test. The match saw the first occasion of a Test being played in India in June. The only other debut Test to finish in two days was South Africa vs England at Port Elizabeth in 1888-89. Afghanistan, like Pakistan in 1952-53, became the second country to lose their first Test wicket to a run out, Mohammad Shahzad being the dismissed batsman.