This happened after 127 years
Pat Cummins is the second bowler, while the first fast bowler, to take 5 wickets in the debut Test as an Australian captain. Before him, George Giffen took 6/155 against England at the Melbourne Cricket Stadium in 1894. George was a spinner.
Second fast bowling captain after Waqar Younis
Waqar Younis had the record of taking 5 wickets in the debut match as captain before Pat Cummins. He took 5 wickets for 91 runs in the Karachi Test against Zimbabwe in 1993.
This happened after 2 years
Talking about the overall (spin and pacer), Rashid Khan was the last captain to do so. He took 5 wickets for 55 runs in the Chittagong Test against Bangladesh in 2019. Rashid was captaining Afghanistan in this match.
Included in the special list of Anil Kumble
Overall, Cummins joins the list of respected bowler-captains to take five wickets, which includes India’s Anil Kumble, West Indies’ Courtney Walsh, New Zealand’s Daniel Vettori. Earlier this year, England captain Joe Root also took five wickets during a Test against India.
After Kumble, Pat Cummins did wonders
India’s Anil Kumble took 5 wickets as captain for the last time on Australian soil. He did this feat in Melbourne in 2007. After that this is the first time that a bowler-captain has taken 5 wickets in Australia.
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