Australia’s Cummins-Starc-Hazlewood-Lyon turn out to be first quartet to the touch 500 Take a look at wickets collectively

Australia’s paceman Mitchell Starc (C) celebrates the wicket of India’s KL Rahul (2nd R) in the course of the first day of the third first Take a look at cricket match between Australia and India on the Optus Stadium in Perth on November 22, 2024
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The Australian bowling quartet of pacers Pat Cummins, Mitchell Starc, Josh Hazlewood and spinner Nathan Lyon made historical past on Friday (November 22, 2024) as they grew to become the primary bowling quartet in Take a look at historical past to take 500 Take a look at wickets whereas taking part in collectively.

The legendary quartet achieved this feat in the course of the first Border-Gavaskar Trophy Take a look at in opposition to India at Perth. In the course of the first session of the match, Hazlewood and Starc struck twice every, taking the wicket tally to the five hundred mark. Australian media outet ABC Sport took to Instagram to disclose the statistic.

Whereas taking part in collectively, Cummins has 130 scalps, Hazlewood and Starc have 124 every and Lyon has 122 wickets.

The quarter closest to them is England’s James Anderson, Stuart Broad, Ben Stokes, and Moeen Ali with 415 scalps whereas taking part in in whites collectively. Nonetheless, solely Stokes is the one energetic participant in worldwide cricket left now. Based mostly on pure numbers, Lyon (530 scalps in 130 matches), Starc (360 in 90 matches), Hazlewood (275 scalps in 71 matches) and Cummins (269 scalps in 63 matches) are up there as one of many biggest quartets in Assessments ever, if not the best. Australia’s finest quartet when it comes to Take a look at wickets taken is Shane Warne (708 wickets), Glenn McGrath (563 wickets), Brett Lee (310 wickets) and Jason Gillespie (259 wickets), who all dominated the 2000s period of the game and performed 16 Assessments collectively.

Coming to the match, India gained the toss and opted to bat first. They ended the primary session with 51/4 on the board, with Rishabh Pant (10*) and Dhruv Jurel (4*) unbeaten. Starc and Josh Hazlewood took early wickets of Yashasvi Jaiswal (0), Devdutt Padikkal (0), Virat Kohli (5) as nicely.