When the substitute caught out his own team player, this has happened 3 times in test history

Cricket News Desk. A few days ago, a very strange incident happened during the Sri Lanka-Pakistan Colombo Test. Pakistan cricketer Mohammad Rizwan was not in the playing eleven. Shortly after the start of the Test, Rizwan was caught by Kusal Mendis (6) off the ball of substitute player Shaheen Shah Afridi. After this, Sarfaraz (14* off 22 balls) retired hurt in Pakistan's innings and Rizwan became the concussion substitute, meaning now he is in the Test team.

So, Rizwan's role in the Test was as follows – one catch as a substitute, 50* as a concussion substitute and stumping Ramesh Mendis in the second innings. It was a unique sight to see the same player playing different roles in the same Test. This is the first time in Test cricket that the fielding names of a team have been written differently in both the innings.

It has happened in Test history that a Test playing player dismissed a substitute player in the same Test i.e. he was a substitute for the other team. At the time, teams played with very few players in Tests (to save costs – even the Australian team on tour had only 12 players so that tour profits did not have to be shared among multiple players; the Australian team agreed. The money will be received only after this demand) and it is often required. When dropped from the team, he asks any player from the other team to take the field as his replacement.

This is only the third time a substitute player has taken a catch, i.e. caught by a player from his own team – this record is held by Australia's Billy Murdoch (1884), Effie Jarvis (1884–85) and Charles Turner (1886–87). ) is near. , Interestingly, none of these three took a single catch for their team in that Test.

Now let's talk in detail about what Murdoch did – this is a historical story. One of his teammates took a catch, and the first Australian captain to do so was Billy Murdoch – he caught 'Tup' Scott (75) in a Test against England at Lord's in 1884. Murdoch was then fielding in place of WG Grace (who had suffered a finger injury). Biggest Record: This was the first catch taken by a substitute player in Test cricket.