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Manipur’s Fairojam Singh became the fourth Indian to take nine wickets on debut

Manipur’s 16-year-old Fairojam Singh on Wednesday became the fourth Indian bowler to claim nine wickets on first-class debut in their Ranji Trophy Plate group match against Sikkim. The young medium-pacer took nine for 69 from five maidens in 22 overs, surpassing Vasant Ranjane (9 for 35, 1956–57), Amarjit Singh (9 for 45, 1971–72) and Joining the elite list of players like Sanjay Yadav (9/52, 2019-20) who took nine wickets on first-class debut.

Manipur bundled out Sikkim for 220 runs. This is the 10th best performance by an Indian player in first-class cricket history and the fourth best on debut. Sikkim started last night at 58 without a wicket and Fairojam began his haul of wickets as he came close to becoming the first Indian to claim all 10 wickets on first-class debut at the same time. Were. But Rex Rajkumar dismissed Anvesh Sharma (39 runs) to end Sikkim’s innings in 73.1 overs.

However, in this too, Fairojam played an important role by taking a catch. Albert Moss and Fitz Hinds of England are the only two bowlers in cricket history to have taken all 10 wickets in an innings on first-class debut. Sikkim, however, took a first innings lead and were 59 for four at stumps in Manipur’s second innings. Manipur’s team could only score 186 runs in the first innings. In another match at Patna, Bihar reached 367 for four at stumps in reply to Arunachal Pradesh’s 212 in their first innings. In Nadiad, Mizoram scored 37 runs losing three wickets in the second innings against Meghalaya. Meghalaya team was reduced to 171 runs in the first innings. Mizoram scored 252 runs in the first innings.

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