{"id":14217,"date":"2026-08-19T17:03:06","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T17:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/?p=14217"},"modified":"2026-08-19T17:03:06","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T17:03:06","slug":"first-in-43-years-azan-awais-matches-unwanted-pakistan-record-in-england-test-cricket-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/?p=14217","title":{"rendered":"First in 43 years! Azan Awais matches unwanted Pakistan record in England Test | Cricket News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"e9jwa\">\n<div class=\"vdo_embedd\">\n<div class=\"GfdvZ\">\n<section class=\"_bIDB  clearfix id-r-component leadmedia undefined undefined  E9tg9 \" style=\"top:0px\">\n<div class=\"_bIDB\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">\n<div class=\"ypVvZ\">\n<div class=\"WGttI\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/thumb\/msid-133353580,imgsize-97746,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4\/azan-awais.jpg\" alt=\"First in 43 years! Azan Awais matches unwanted Pakistan record in England Test\" title=\"Azan Awais\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Pakistan opener Azan Awais was dismissed off the very first ball of the first Test against England at Headingley on Wednesday, becoming only the second Pakistani opener ever to suffer the unwanted fate.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"2\"\/>Ollie Robinson produced a superb delivery to trap Awais lbw with the opening ball of the three-match series. The right-arm seamer&#8217;s wobble-seam delivery moved sharply into the left-hander and struck him in front of off stump. Awais played around the ball and was given out by umpire Chris Gaffaney.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"4\"\/><span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"6\"\/>Pakistan reviewed the decision, but replays showed a clear gap between bat and ball, while ball-tracking indicated three reds with the delivery hitting the top of middle stump. <!-- -->Awais departed for 0 off one ball.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"11\"\/>The dismissal made Awais only the second Pakistan opener to be dismissed from the first delivery of a Test. The previous instance came in 1983, when <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/mohsin-khan\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mohsin Khan<\/a> was dismissed off the first ball against India in Jalandhar.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"15\"\/><\/p>\n<p><h2>Robinson joins select England list<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"17\"\/>Robinson&#8217;s strike also made him only the fourth England bowler to take a wicket with the first ball of a Test played in England.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"19\"\/>Maurice Tate was the first to achieve the feat against Australia at Leeds in 1926, dismissing Warren Bardsley. Geoff Arnold then struck against India at Birmingham in 1974, removing Sunil Gavaskar, while Ryan Sidebottom dismissed Daren Ganga against West Indies at Chester-le-Street in 2007.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"23\"\/>Robinson became the latest entrant to the list by removing Awais at Headingley.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"26\"\/><span class=\"strong\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">Picked the wicket on the first ball of the Test in England<\/span><span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"28\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"cdatainfo   id-r-component \" data-pos=\"29\">\n<ul>\n<li>Maurice Tate vs AUS, Leeds, 1926 (W Bardsley)<\/li>\n<li>Geoff Arnold vs IND, Birmingham, 1974 (S Gavaskar)<\/li>\n<li>Ryan Sidebottom vs WI, Chester-le-Street, 2007 (D Ganga)<\/li>\n<li>Ollie Robinson vs PAK, Leeds, 2026 (Azan Awais)*<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>The early breakthrough was also a dramatic start to Robinson&#8217;s return to the England side. The seamer had last played a Test at Lord&#8217;s against New Zealand in June, where he claimed match-winning figures of 7-77 in his first Test appearance in two years.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"32\"\/><span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"34\"\/><\/p>\n<p><h2>Robinson leads Pakistan top-order collapse<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"36\"\/>Robinson continued to trouble Pakistan&#8217;s top order as the opening session unfolded. He removed four of Pakistan&#8217;s top five batters, helping England seize control after rain had shortened the morning session.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"38\"\/>Pakistan slipped to 150\/7 by tea, with Robinson finishing the extended three-hour session with impressive figures of 4-39 from 16 overs.<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/sports\/cricket\/news\/first-in-43-years-azan-awais-matches-unwanted-pakistan-record-in-england-test\/articleshow\/133353502.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan opener Azan Awais was dismissed off the very first ball of the first Test against England at Headingley on Wednesday, becoming only the second Pakistani opener ever to suffer the unwanted fate.Ollie Robinson produced a superb delivery to trap Awais lbw with the opening ball of the three-match series. The right-arm seamer&#8217;s wobble-seam delivery [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14218,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-31"],"magazineBlocksPostFeaturedMedia":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/azan-awais.jpg","medium":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/azan-awais.jpg","medium_large":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/azan-awais.jpg","large":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/azan-awais.jpg","1536x1536":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/azan-awais.jpg","2048x2048":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/azan-awais.jpg","blogsy-small":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/azan-awais.jpg","blogsy-small-tall":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/azan-awais.jpg","blogsy-small-square":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/azan-awais.jpg","blogsy-small-masonry":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/azan-awais.jpg","blogsy-medium":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/azan-awais.jpg","blogsy-medium-masonry":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/azan-awais.jpg","blogsy-large":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/azan-awais.jpg","blogsy-wide":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/azan-awais.jpg"},"magazineBlocksPostAuthor":{"name":"admin","avatar":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/8709732a479614e7a8aa24d3eb1b239f30dc6d90c61464ed495001e7a469d856?s=96&d=mm&r=g"},"magazineBlocksPostCommentsNumber":"0","magazineBlocksPostExcerpt":"Pakistan opener Azan Awais was dismissed off the very first ball of the first Test against England at Headingley on Wednesday, becoming only the second Pakistani opener ever to suffer the unwanted fate.Ollie Robinson produced a superb delivery to trap Awais lbw with the opening ball of the three-match series. The right-arm seamer&#8217;s wobble-seam delivery [&hellip;]","magazineBlocksPostCategories":["\u0b26\u0b47\u0b36 \u0b2c\u0b3f\u0b26\u0b47\u0b36"],"magazineBlocksPostViewCount":1,"magazineBlocksPostReadTime":2,"magazine_blocks_featured_image_url":{"full":["https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/azan-awais.jpg",400,225,false],"medium":["https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/azan-awais.jpg",300,169,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/azan-awais.jpg",150,84,false]},"magazine_blocks_author":{"display_name":"admin","author_link":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/author\/admin"},"magazine_blocks_comment":0,"magazine_blocks_author_image":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/8709732a479614e7a8aa24d3eb1b239f30dc6d90c61464ed495001e7a469d856?s=96&d=mm&r=g","magazine_blocks_category":"<a href=\"#\" class=\"category-link category-link-31\">\u0b26\u0b47\u0b36 \u0b2c\u0b3f\u0b26\u0b47\u0b36<\/a>","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}