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The date of 24 October 2024 has been recorded in golden letters in the history of Test cricket. In Pune, Indian spinners made the New Zealand batsmen dance to their spin. R Ashwin and Washington Sundar together bundled out the entire New Zealand team for 259 runs. This is the sixth time on Indian soil that all 10 wickets in the first innings on the first day of a Test match fell into the hands of spinners. R Ashwin took the wickets of 3 batsmen while Washington Sundar sent 7 batsmen to the pavilion.
In reply to New Zealand’s score of 259 runs, India had put 16 runs on the scoreboard at the loss of 1 wicket in their first innings by the end of the day’s play. Rohit Sharma returned to the pavilion without opening his account. He was dismissed by Tim Southee. On one hand, where Indian spinners troubled the Kiwi batsmen in Pune, on the other hand, spinners troubled the English batsmen a lot in the neighboring country Pakistan.
The magic of spin was also seen in Pakistan.
Like India, Pakistani spinners also did a great feat of dismissing all 10 players of England. This is the sixth time in the history of Test cricket that Pakistani spinners have taken all 10 wickets in the first innings of a Test match. At the same time, this has happened for the fourth time against England when all its players have become victims of spinners. After England’s first innings were reduced to 267 runs, Pakistan had put 73 runs on the scoreboard by losing 3 wickets by the end of the first day of the Rawalpindi Test. Here too the spinners dominated. Jack Leach and Shoaib Bashir took 1-1 wickets while pacer Gus Atkinson got a success.
South Africa thrashed Bangladesh.
Now let’s talk about the third test match which was played on this day i.e. 24 October. The only difference is that India vs New Zealand and Pakistan vs England test matches started while South Africa vs Bangladesh match ended today. In this match, South Africa defeated Bangladesh by 7 wickets.
On the fourth day, Bangladesh scored 283 runs after losing 7 wickets but on the last day of the match, Kagiso Rabada dismissed 2 Bangladeshi batsmen while Wiaan Mulder dismissed one batsman and bundled out the host team for 307 runs. After this, South Africa achieved the target of 106 runs after losing 3 wickets. Bangladesh spinner Taijul Islam took three wickets of South Africa. In this way, a total of 30 wickets fell in 3 Test matches in a single day, out of which 25 wickets were taken by spinners alone while Kagiso Rabada was the only fast bowler who took more than one wicket. The remaining 3 fast bowlers took only 1 wicket each.
