BOTH OPENERS OUT FOR DUCK

Both Bangladeshi openers out for Duck against India on Sunday at the Share Bangla Stadium, Mirpur. Ishant Sharma got the rid of Imrul Kayes on his first ball of this test and then Zaheer Khan bowled Tamim Iqbal on third ball of his second over.
This was the 43rd instance in test history. Here are some more interesting details about both openers out for duck.
*** This was the first instance since August 2006 and after 138 test matches.
*** This was the first time a Bangladeshi opening pair out for a duck
*** Tamim-Imrul is the fifth pair to be out for a duck against India.
*** Last time Zimbabwe opening pair of Grant Flower and Gavin Rennie lost their wicket without opening the account at Delhi in 2000-01.
*** Out of five such instances 3 time a West Indian opening pair out for a duck against India. They are John Hott & Conrad Hunte (at Kanpur, 1958-59), Alvin Greenidge & Basil Williams (at Wankhede, 1978-79, both wicket by Karasan Ghavri) and Gordon Greenidge & Desmond Haynes (at Port of Spain, 1982-83 both wicket by BS Sandhu).
*** Javagal Srinath took both wickets against Zimbabwe during the Delhi test mention above.
*** There are 6 instances each when Australian and Pakistani openers out for a duck while 5 time this has happened with England, India, New Zealand and West Indies. 4 Sri Lankan opening pair and South Africa and Zimbabwe lost their openers 3 time each before they open their account.
*** This has happened 11 times against England in test cricket.

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Consecutive hundreds in test matches

India’s Gautam Gambhir scored hundred against Bangladesh on Wednesday. This was his fifth consecutive hundred in FIVE test matches. Thus became the 4th batsmen to do so in the history of test cricket.
Sir Donald George Bradman is the only batsman to hit SIX consecutive ton in 11 innings of six consecutive tests from January 1937 to July 1938, while Mohammad Yousuf scored five in five from August 2006 to December 2006 for Pakistan.
South African batsman Jacques Kallis hit five ton in five consecutive from December 2003 to March 2004 and now Gautam Gambhir joined this elite club.
Gambhir scored 137 and 167 against New Zealand in March 2009 at Napier and Wellington respectively and then went on to score 114 at Ahmedabad and 167 at Kanpur against Sri Lanka in November 2009. He missed a test at Brabourne (While taking a break due to his sister’s marriage) against Sri Lanka.
And now in Bangladesh at Chittagong again he reached hundred and scored 116 before becomes the first test victim of Shafiul Islam.
There are 18 batsmen who scored hundred in 4 consecutive centuries in test history.

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