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There were many players out on zero, but what happened to Sai Sudarshan, it has not been with anyone yet

Samira Vishwas | June 21, 2025 1:24 AM CST

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 losing wickets at zero

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.

This happened after 14 years

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.

Watch the list of batsmen to be dismissed on zero in the first Test innings here

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