• By bowling Jaffer, Mashrafe Mortaza became the first Bangladeshi bowler to take a wicket on the first ball in a Test match.
• The first batsman to be dismissed on the first ball in a Test match was England’s Archibald Campbell MacLaren against Australia at Melbourne in 1894-95 while Sunil Gavaskar was the first Indian to achieve this unwanted feat. England’s Geoff Arnold dismissed Gavaskar on the first ball at Birmingham in 1974.
• Sunil Gavaksar is the only bastsman who was out on first ball in a Test match thrice.
—Syed Pervez Qaiser
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