A moment Nandre Burger will remember all his life. Having been handed his Test cap an hour ago, the left-arm pacer came steaming in and claimed the wicket of his Rajasthan Royals teammate Yashasvi Jaiswal. The tall pacer celebrated his maiden Test wicket emphatically, screaming in delight.
Nandre Burger pitched the ball at full length outside off, which jagged back in ever so slightly, taking the outside edge of Jaiswal as wicketkeeper Kyle Verreynne claimed an easy catch.
For the unaware, Burger was picked by Jaiswal’s IPL franchise, the Rajasthan Royals (RR), in the IPL 2024 auction. The left-arm pacer had set his base price at Rs 50 lakh and found just one bidder at the auction.
IND vs SA 1st Test: Playing XI
India: Rohit Sharma (c), Yashasvi Jaiswal, Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, KL Rahul (wk), Ravichandran Ashwin, Shardul Thakur, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Siraj, Prasidh Krishna
South Africa: Dean Elgar, Aiden Markram, Tony de Zorzi, Temba Bavuma (c), Keegan Petersen, David Bedingham, Kyle Verreynne (wk), Marco Jansen, Gerald Coetzee, Kagiso Rabada, Nandre Burger
