IND vs ENG: Debut catastrophe! Sai Sudharsan registers rare low for India after seven years | Cricket News

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NEW DELHI: Hype met heartbreak for Sai Sudharsan on Friday because the highly-rated teenager endured a nightmare begin to his Test profession, falling for a duck in his debut innings in opposition to England within the first Test of the Anderson–Tendulkar Trophy sequence at Headingley.Live Score: India vs England, 1st Test Day 1The 23-year-old left-hander, handed India Test Cap No. 317 by Cheteshwar Pujara earlier than the toss, walked in at No. 3 – a place steeped in Indian cricketing historical past – however managed to final simply 4 balls earlier than edging a supply from Ben Stokes to wicketkeeper Jamie Smith.Go Beyond The Boundary with our YouTube channel. SUBSCRIBE NOW!Sudharsan got here to the crease after KL Rahul (42) and Yashasvi Jaiswal (42 not out) had put collectively a promising 91-run opening stand. He survived a detailed LBW name off the primary ball he confronted from Brydon Carse, however seemed tentative all through his transient keep.

Stokes, attacking with goal, probed him within the following over, and eventually drew the sting that despatched Sudharsan again for a duck – an inauspicious begin to what has been an in any other case glowing rise by the ranks. India went into lunch on 92/2 on Day 1.

Sudharsan’s debut got here on a date etched in Indian Test folklore – June 20, the identical day Rahul Dravid and Sourav Ganguly debuted in 1996, and Virat Kohli in 2011. Expectations have been excessive for the Tamil Nadu batter, who topped the IPL 2025 run charts and had been earmarked as a pillar of India’s new period in red-ball cricket.His early dismissal, nonetheless, serves as a reminder of the brutal challenges of Test cricket – significantly in English situations.Last 10 India Test debutants to be dismissed for duck:Sairaj Bahutule (2001)Ajay Ratra (2002)Parthiv Patel (2002)Wriddhiman Saha (2010)Praveen Kumar (2011)R Ashwin (2011)Umesh Yadav (2011)Jasprit Bumrah (2018)Hanuma Vihari (2018)Sai Sudharsan (2025)