Players who got Sachin Tendulkar as their 1st wicket in International

Players who got Sachin Tendulkar as their 1st wicket in International: Sachin Tendulkar is often regarded as bunny of the newbie bowlers. Given the high number of matches he played in International Cricket, it helped the debutant players to dismiss Sachin and for some others to get the batting legend after ending up wicketless in their earlier games. Here we bring you the list of players who have registered Sachin Tendulkar as their 1st wicket in International Cricket.

Test Cricket: 12 Players

The first player to get Sachin Tendulkar as his maiden wicket in Test Cricket was South Africa’s Hansie Cronje who got Sachin’s wicket in 1992 at Johannesburg. The last such instance was in 2010 when New Zealand pacer Andy Mckay got Sachin’s wicket at Nagpur.

Zimbabwe’s Neil Johnson had Sachin Tendulkar’s wicket on both innings in his debut test at Harare in 1998. Hence, Sachin turned out to be Neil’s 1st and 2nd test victim.

Nagpur and Bangalore became the venue on 2 occasions when Sachin became a certain players’ 1st test scalp.

ODI Cricket: 16 players

Barring in 1995, Sachin became a certain players’ 1st ODI scalp at least once in each and every year from 1991 to 2000.

The first player to claim Sachin Tendulkar as his maiden wicket in ODIs was South Africa’s Craig Matthews in 1991 at Gwalior and the last player was Ireland’s Roger Wheland in 2007 when at Belfast.
UAE’s Asim Saeed at Dambulla in 2004, got Sachin Tendulkar as his first ODI wicket which turned out to be his only wicket in his ODI Cricket.

Sharjah hosted 3 occasions where Sachin became a certain players’ 1st wicket in ODIs.

International Cricket: 20 players

From 1991 to 2000, Sachin became a certain players’ 1st ever wicket in International cricket at least once in each and every year.

Bangladesh’s Mohammad Rafique picked up Sachin Tendulkar as his first wicket in ODIs as well as the first wicket in Tests.

UAE’s Asim Saeed, who got Sachin as his 1st International wicket, turned out to be his last wicket.