IND vs AUS Test Series: The Boxing Day Test match being played between India and Australia at the Melbourne Cricket Ground is currently in a very exciting situation in which the host Australia has given a target of 340 runs to Team India to win. In this match, Kangaroo team captain Pat Cummins has created a new history in Test cricket by taking the wicket of Rohit Sharma. In this match, Rohit Sharma lost his wicket to Pat Cummins' ball for the second consecutive time. Rohit was sent to the pavilion by Cummins on a personal score of just 9.
Pat Cummins made this new record in Test as captain
It is very rare in Test cricket that a captain of one team gets the wicket of the captain of the opposing team, but when Pat Cummins got the wicket of Rohit Sharma on the fifth day of the Boxing Day Test match, he did so for the sixth time when he was successful in getting the wicket of Rohit Sharma as a captain, in which Rohit was handling the responsibility of captaincy of Team India at that time. This is also a new world record in Test cricket because before this Richie Benod had got Ted Dexter his victim 5 times in which both of them were captains of their respective teams.
The captain who has dismissed the opposing team's captain the most number of times in Test cricket
Rohit Sharma – 6 times out against Pat Cummins
Ted Dexter – 5 dismissals against Richie Benaud
Sunil Gavaskar - 5 times out against Imran Khan
Gulabrai Ramchand - 4 times out against Richie Benaud
Clive Lloyd – 4 times out against Kapil Dev
Peter May – 4 dismissals against Richie Benaud
Pat Cummins became the captain with most Test wickets at home
Pat Cummins has become the captain who has taken the most wickets at home for Australia, in which he has taken 79 wickets so far. At the top of this list is the name of former Pakistani team captain Imran Khan, who took a total of 88 wickets in Test cricket while playing at home as a captain. Apart from this, at the third place in this list is Richie Benaud, who took 76 wickets.
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