IND vs Eng: Sai Sudarshan has got a chance to debut in the Leeds Test match being played with England. However, he could not redeem this opportunity, he returned to the pavilion without opening the account in the first innings and returned to the pavilion. The debut of Sudarshan’s Test career was disappointing and at the same time his name has joined an unwanted list.
Sai Sudarshan, who won the Orange Cap in IPL 2025, also got a chance to debut in the Leeds Test. He was the 317th player to debut in Tests for India. In the first innings, he came on the field after KL Rahul was dismissed, but he could not face the English bowlers and returned to the pavilion after being out on the fourth ball. Sai Sudarshan was selected to bat on number-3 in the team before Abhimanyu Ishwaran, where he failed to prove himself.
With his debut in his debut Test match, many unwanted records have been recorded in the name of Sai Sudarshan. This was the first time in the history of Indian Test cricket, when a batsman was out on zero while batting on number-3 in the debut Test innings.
Apart from this, Sudarshan has also become the third Indian batsman who was out without opening an account while batting in the top-3 in the debut Test innings. Prior to him, Krishnamachari Srikanth and Dewang Gandhi were out on zero like this and both of these batsmen landed as openers. At the same time, Sudarshan is the 29th Indian to be dismissed on Duck in Debut Test innings.
CT Sarwate: 1946
JK Irani: 1947
SA Banerjee: 1948
Ghulam Ahmed: 1948
SP Gupte: 1951
GS Ramchand: 1952
JM Patel: 1955
MS Hardikar: 1958
VM Mudaiya: 1959
MM Sood: 1960
BS Chandrashekhar: 1964
UN Kulkarni: 1967
ED Solkar: 1969
GR Vishwanath: 1969
DD Parsana: 1979
K Srikanth: 1981
Maninder Singh: 1982
RGM Patel: 1988
V Rajdan: 1989
A Kuruvilla: 1997
R Singh: 1999
DJ Gandhi: 1999
R Vijay Bhardwaj: 1999
A Ratra – 2002
PA Patel: 2002
WP Saha: 2010
R Ashwin: 2011
UT Yadav: 2011
Sai Sudarshan: 2025
