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It is the day of Jason Krejza. The young Australian off-spinner Jason Krejza who made his debut really made the hosts stunned with his bowling mesmerism. He became only the sixth bowler - third from his country - to erode eight wickets in his debut Test innings. This off spinner triggered an Indian batting collapse on the second day of the fourth and final Test.
The 25-year-old bowler, who had to sit on bench for the first three Tests in the series in which they trail 0-1, got on India skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni (56), Sourav Ganguly (85), Zaheer Khan (1), Amit Mishra (0) and last man Ishant Sharma (0) in the space of 26 balls and 15 runs finishing up with eight wickets for 215 runs in 43.5 overs.
The chance of grabbing a hat-trick was denied by Sharma. In the post-lunch spell of 5.5-0-20-5 he send back Zaheer and Mishra off successive balls, but Sharma prevented him from achieving a hat-trick. This Tasmanian thus became only the sixth bowler in cricket history to take eight wickets in his first Test innings.
Krejza now shares his name with his compatriots Albert Trott (8 for 43 vs England at Adelaide in 1895) and Bob Massie (8 for 53 vs England at Lord’s in 1972), West Indian Alf Valentine (vs England at Manchester in 1950), India’s Narendra Hirwani (8 for 75 at Chennai in 1988) and South Africa’s Lance Klusener (8 for 64 vs India at Kolkata in 1996). Both Massie and Hirwani have grabbed eight wickets in the second innings in their debut Tests.
Krejza had made his mark on the first day of the Test on Thursday by showing Virender Sehwag (66), Rahul Dravid (0) and VVS Laxman (64) the way back to pavilion. He also has missed two chances of getting master batsman Sachin Tendulkar (109) out. But unfortunately, Sachin was not meant for him.
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