Corbin Bosch scripts HISTORY, becomes first player in the world to achieve this unprecedented feat in Test cricket

New Delhi: Corbin Bosch started his Test career with a bang as South Africa crushed Zimbabwe by a record 328 runs to win the first of the two-match series at Queens Park Oval in the Bulawayo. It was the 9th straight Test victory by South Africa which is their longest in the format.

Bosch produced a stellar all-round performance as he scored his maiden Test century with an unbeaten 100 in the first innings. Then he presented his talent with the ball claiming a five-wicket haul in the second innings to complete an excellent performance.

Corbin Bosch scripts history

Bosch has got a great start in Test cricket, as he has scored 217 runs in 4 innings where his average stands at a great 108.50 besides 10 wickets to his name at a very modest 19.10. His debut came in the year 2024 against Pakistan at Centurion where he grabbed four wickets in the first innings as well as 81 scoring runs with the bat. But due to a duck in the second innings he was dropped and got only one wicket.

Bosch is the first test player in history to have recorded four or more wickets in a Test innings, and 80 or more runs on either side in his first 2 Test innings. He becomes the second cricketer to perform this rare double in his debut match and first since New Zealand Bruce Taylor got a five-wicket haul (5-86) and made 105 runs against India in 1965 at the Eden Gardens. Although Taylor also picked a five-wicket haul in his second match at the Brabourne Stadium in Mumbai (5-26, 3-76), his batting performance in the game remained poor with 8 and 21 in the first and second innings respectively.

Taylor is the only cricketer in Test cricket history to have the rare feat of a century and five-wicket haul on first appearance. In the meantime, Bosch is now fifth fastest (jointly) to score this accomplishment and is equally lauded with Jack Gregory and Roston Chase, and Brian Bennett. The first pace bowler to have this kind of achievement in 60 years, since Taylor, is Bosch.

In the meantime Bosch has become the first South African to have made this unique double in 23 years after Jacques Kallis. He is the fourth South African player to achieve the feat and second after the readmission of the South African country to global cricket. Although Kallis is still the only South African ever to have achieved the double twice, Bosch continously remains the first ever to have done this away on a Test.

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