Fresh from his recall to the Indian Test aspect, pacer Navdeep Saini struck gold on his first ball for Worcestershire in a County Championship Division Two match. Saini, who had signed a four-match take care of Worcestershire, cleaned up Derbyshire opener Harry Came with a nip backer after the batter paid the last word worth for leaving the ball. The incident occurred on the primary ball of the second over of Derbyshire’s first innings. “How about that for a first ball in Worcestershire colours!,” Worcestershire captioned a video on Twitter.

How about that for a primary ball in Worcestershire colors!@navdeepsaini96 pic.twitter.com/8pw585qVMA

— Worcestershire County Cricket Club (@WorcsCCC) June 25, 2023

At stumps, Derbyshire have been 32/2 with Came and Luis Reece again in dugout. Saini and Dillon Pennington have taken a wicket every to date for Worcestershire.

Earlier, Worcestershire have been bundled out for 237 after opting to bat. Captain Jake Libby (78) was their high scorer. Libby is now the third highest scorer in Division Two this summer season with 614 runs at a mean of 61.40.

Meanwhile, Anuj Dal (5/45) was the wrecker-in-chief for Derbyshire as he ran by means of the highest order.

Due to his India name up, Saini will not be accessible to face Yorkshire (July 10-13), Leicestershire (July 19-22) and Gloucestershire (July 26-29). He had signed a four-match contract initially.

Libby stated: “Honours just about even? I would say so. We will be a little disappointed with the bat. We would have liked to have squeezed a few more runs.

“It is sort of a sluggish, turgid deck and was fairly robust to attain runs on it so our rating might be a bit greater than what it seems to be like on the scoreboard.

“We bowled brilliantly this evening to get two wickets and the game is poised nicely.