Adam Voges' Debut Hundred Neutralises Devendra Bishoo's Career-Best Test Figures
Devendra Bishoo took six for 80 but Adam Voges' debut hundred helped Australia take a significant first innings lead against the West Indies in the first Test being played in Dominica.
- NDTVSports
- Updated: June 05, 2015 09:20 PM IST
Australia continued to dominate West Indies in the first Test match in Dominica but the hosts did show some spunk thanks to leg-spinner Devendra Bishoo's career-best figures of six for 80 on Day 2. This was his fifth five-wicket haul in the longest format of the game. (Scorecard)
Bishoo's exploits with the ball on a second day pitch could have had more dire consequences for the Aussies, who are looking to regain world supremacy in Test cricket. In fact the visitors were in all kinds of trouble at 178 for eight, having bundled the West Indies out for only 148 in their first innings, before Adam Voges, (35 years 242 days), became the oldest player to score a hundred on Test debut. The previous record was held by Zimbabwean Dave Houghton, who slammed a ton in his maiden Test match, aged 35 years and 117 days.
Bishoo, an underrated but effective bowler, completed 50 wickets in his 13th Test match. His figures are also the best by any bowler in Dominica. Had it not been for Voges, who also became the fourth oldest Australian to smash a maiden Test hundred, the Baggy Greens could have been looking at an embarrassing position. However, Australia managed 318 and took a significant first innings lead.
Key Stats from Dominica Test
Adam Voges' 26th century in first-class cricket is his first on his debut in Tests.
# Voges (35 years 242 days) is the oldest player to score a century on Test debut, obliterating Dave Houghton's record. Houghton, at 35 years 117 days, had scored 121 for Zimbabwe vs India at Harare in October 1992.
# Voges is the fourth oldest Australian batsman to post a maiden hundred in Tests. Arthur Richardson had registered a century in Tests at the age of 37 years 351 days - 100 vs England at Leeds in July 1926; Chris Rogers, at the age of 35 years and 343 days had recorded 110 vs England at Chester-le-Street in August 2013 and George Gifften, at 35 years 262 days had posted 161 vs England at Sydney in December 1894.
# Josh Hazlewood (39) has recorded his highest Test score, obliterating the 32 not out vs India at Brisbane in December 2014.
# Hazlewood's innings is the highest by a number eleven batsman at Roseau, Dominica in Tests.
# Voges and Hazlewood were involved in a 97-run stand for the tenth wicket, equalling an Australian record for this wicket-position vs West Indies in Tests. Rodney Hogg and Tom Hogan had put on 97 in the 1983-84 Georgetown Test.
(With Inputs from Rajesh Kumar)