India's history of hit wicket dismissals

Sport360 staff 13:22 12/11/2016
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    • Virat Kohli reacts after getting out hit wicket.

    In 139 years of Test cricket, Indian captain Virat Kohli’s dismissal in the first Test against England at Rajkot was the 155th instance of a batsman getting out hit wicket.

    Kohli was batting on 40 when he went on the back foot to pull a short delivery from Adil Rashid to mid-wicket. It didn’t seem like there was any fault with the shot until English wicket-keeper Jonny Bairstow noted that one of the bails was on the ground.

    Bairstow immediately went up in celebration and despite the on-field umpires going to the third umpire for the final decision, Kohli knew that his fate had been sealed.

    The Delhi batsman’s dismissal was the 22nd instance of an Indian batsman losing their wicket in such a manner in Test cricket.

    The first Indian batsman to be dismissed hit wicket in Tests was Lala Amarnath against the West Indies at Chennai in 1949. Incidentally, the former Indian captain’s son Mohinder Amarnath fell in such a manner as many as three times in the longest format of the game – the highest for any Indian batsman.

    Here, we look at all the 22 instances of Indian batsmen getting out hit wicket.

    No. Batsman Opposition Venue Year
    1 Lala Amarnath West Indies Chennai 1949
    2 Madhav Apte West Indies Georgetown 1953
    3 Chandu Borde West Indies Delhi 1959
    4 Naren Tamhane West Indies Delhi 1959
    5 Budhi Kunderan Australia Mumbai 1960
    6 Dilip Sardesai England Kanpur 1961
    7 Vijay Manjrekar West Indies Port of Spain 1962
    8 Hanumant Singh New Zealand Mumbai 1965
    9 Motganhalli Jaisimha New Zealand Delhi 1965
    10 Syed Abid Ali Australia Sydney 1968
    11 Madan Lal England Manchester 1974
    12 Ashok Mankad England Birmingham 1974
    13 Brijesh Patel England Kolkata 1977
    14 Dilip Vengsarkar Australia Brisbane 1977
    15 Mohinder Amarnath Pakistan Lahore 1978
    16 Mohinder Amarnath Australia Mumbai 1979
    17 Mohinder Amarnath Pakistan Faisalabad 1984
    18 Kiran More West Indies Kingston 1989
    19 Nayan Mongia West Indies Mohali 1994
    20 Shiv Sundar Das Australia Kolkata 2001
    21 VVS Laxman West Indies St. John's 2002
    22 Virat Kohli England Rajkot 2016

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