The international debut of West Indies cricket team’s young fast bowler Shamar Joseph has been no less than a dream. Let us tell you that he has created a sensation in the cricket world by taking the wicket of Australian legend Steve Smith on the first ball of his debut test match.

Let us tell you that the first match of the Test series between Australia and West Indies has started from 17th January today at Adelaide Oval, Australia. So, after West Indies were all out on the first day of the match, Shamar Joseph came to bowl the 9th over of Australia’s innings, who got Steve Smith (12) caught out by Justin Greaves on his very first ball.

So if we give you information about this 24-year-old player, he plays domestic cricket for Guyana. Joseph is a resident of Barkara, a small village in Guyana. And before this he had taken 12 wickets in his name for West Indies A on the South Africa tour.

After taking the wicket of Smith, he has become the 23rd bowler in the history of Test cricket to take a wicket on his first ball. Tyrell Johnson had earlier done this for West Indies against England in 1939.

Australia in a strong position at the end of the first day’s play

If we tell you the condition of the match, then the host Australia won the toss and decided to bowl, which proved to be right for them. Let us tell you that batting first, West Indies’ first innings was limited to only 188 runs in 62.1 overs.

For the team, only Kirk McKenzie was able to play a big inning of 50 runs in the first innings. However, in the end fast bowler Shamar Joseph played an inning of 36 runs, due to which the Caribbean team was successful in reaching this target.

On the other hand, if we talk about Australia’s bowling, Pat Cummins and Josh Hazlewood got 4 wickets each. Apart from this, Mitchell Starc and Nathan Lyon got 1-1 wicket.

So at the end of the day, Australia has scored 59 runs at the loss of 2 wickets after 21 overs in the first innings and is behind West Indies by 129 runs on the basis of first innings. At the time of stumps, Usman Khawaja is present at the crease with 30* and Cameron Green with 6*.

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