5 Facts you might not know about India's first T20I

3. Ajit Agarkar bowled a maiden

Ajit Agarkar was a popular bowler of the Indian side through the lates 90s and early 2000s. The right-arm quick from Mumbai was favoured a lot of by Sourav Ganguly and later by Rahul Dravid. In 191 ODI matches, he picked up 288 wickets. He took all of those wickets at an average of 27. His record was quite good and his batting skills made him a must-have in the national team.

Agarkar was part of the Indian squad which went on to win the inaugural edition of the World T20 in 2007 in South Africa. Like all his teammates, Agarkar made his debut in international T20 cricket in this match. But, this was Agarkar’s first-ever twenty 20 match as he had never played in the format even at the domestic level.

During this match, Agarkar bowled a maiden over as well. Bowling a maiden in T20 is quite rare as the batsmen always tend to look for scoring runs. He also picked up the crucial wickets of Herschelle Gibbs and AB de Villiers in the game. However, while bowling his third over, Agarkar had a slight niggle and couldn’t bowl further. He ended his spell with figures of 2.3-1-10-2.