Three wickets for no run in the first over: India's record collapse as Henry storms through at Mount Maunganui
India have never before faced such an embarrassing situation in one-day cricket. In the fourth ODI against New Zealand, the side set an unwanted record by losing their first three wickets before scoring a run. Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli and Shreyas Iyer all returned for ducks.
Chasing 334 at the Bay Oval in Mount Maunganui, India collapsed in the very first over of the innings. New Zealand pacer Matt Henry took three wickets in that over to push India into deep trouble.
Henry removed Rohit with the first ball. The short-of-a-good-length delivery bounced extra and moved away from the bat; forced into playing it, Rohit was caught by Finn Allen at first slip, returning with a golden duck after facing just one ball.
On the fifth ball of the over, Henry bowled Kohli. India's former captain could not handle a delivery that came back in; the ball passed between bat and pad and hit the stumps. Kohli departed without scoring after facing four balls.
Henry had Iyer lbw with the last ball of the over. Umpire Kumar Dharmasena initially turned down the appeal, but New Zealand reviewed, and with ball-tracking showing three reds the decision was overturned. Iyer was out for a duck off his first ball.
As well as taking three wickets, Henry conceded no run in that over, leaving India at none for three at the end of the first over.
Losing the first three wickets before scoring a run had happened only four times before in ODI cricket, and India are the fifth team on that list. Previously Pakistan fell into that position against New Zealand at the 1983 World Cup and against South Africa in 1997, Bangladesh did so against Sri Lanka at the 2003 World Cup, and Australia against Bangladesh in 2026.
Rohit and Kohli both making ducks in the same ODI is also rare. The two had previously both returned scoreless in the same match against Sri Lanka in Dambulla in 2010, and that was repeated against New Zealand this time. But losing three wickets in the first over will remain the bigger nightmare for Indian cricket.
