Ollie Robinson is back in England’s Test team and, on Day 1 of his first Test match for the Poms after more than two years, he picked up four wickets. Robinson bowled the second over of New Zealand’s first innings
in the ongoing first Test at Lord’s and picked up three wickets.
He opened his wicket account by trapping Devon Conway in front of the wickets on the third ball and then got rid of Kane Williamson for a two-ball duck on the fifth ball. The former Kiwi captain was caught by debutant Emilio Gay.
Robinson, who last played a Test match for England against India in Ranchi from February 23 to 26, 2024, picked up his third wicket of the ongoing match in the form of Rachin Ravindra on the sixth ball of his first over. The left-handed batter was also trapped in front of the wickets.
Ollie Robinson’s first over against New Zealand in 2026 Lord’s Test
| BALL | BATTER ON STRIKE | RUNS SCORED | WICKET | NZ’s SCORE |
| 1 | Devon Conway | 0 | – | 2/0 |
| 2 | Devon Conway | 0 | – | 2/0 |
| 3 | Devon Conway | 0 | LBW | 2/1 |
| 4 | Kane Williamson | 0 | – | 2/1 |
| 5 | Kane Williamson | 0 | Caught (by Emilio Gay) | 2/2 |
| 6 | Rachin Ravindra | 0 | LBW | 2/3 |
The total of three wickets by Robinson in his first over of the match helped him enter his name in the history books. He is the first English bowler in the 149-year-old history of Test cricket to take three wickets in his first over of an innings.
Before him, a total of six players had managed to dismiss three opposition batters in their first over of a Test innings, but there was no English player on that list.
The record of being the first bowler in the world to dismiss three batters in his first over of a match is in the name of former Sri Lankan pacer Nuwan Zoysa. Zoysa needed just three balls to take his first three wickets for Sri Lanka in the 1999 Test against Zimbabwe at Harare Sports Club.
Bowlers to take a three-wicket first over in a Test innings
| BOWLER | COUNTRY | OVER NUMBER | BALL | BATTER DISMISSED | MODE OF DIMISSAL | OPPOSITION | VENUE | YEAR |
| Nuwan Zoysa | Sri Lanka | 2nd Over | 1 | Trevor Gripper | LBW | Zimbabwe | Harare | November 1999 |
| 2nd Over | 2 | Murray Goodwin | Caught | Zimbabwe | Harare | November 1999 | ||
| 2nd Over | 3 | Neil Johnson | LBW | Zimbabwe | Harare | November 1999 | ||
| Irfan Pathan | India | 1st Over | 4 | Salman Butt | Caught | Pakistan | Karachi | January-February 2006 |
| 1st Over | 5 | Younis Khan | LBW | Pakistan | Karachi | January-February 2006 | ||
| 1st Over | 6 | Mohammad Yousuf | Bowled | Pakistan | Karachi | January-February 2006 | ||
| Daniel Vettori | New Zealand | 10th Over | 1 | Zunaed Siddique | Stumped | Bangladesh | Mirpur | October 2008 |
| 10th Over | 3 | Mohammad Ashraful | LBW | Bangladesh | Mirpur | October 2008 | ||
| 10th Over | 6 | Rajin Saleh | LBW | Bangladesh | Mirpur | October 2008 | ||
| Haris Sohail | Pakistan | 26th Over | 1 | Rangana Herath | Caught | Sri Lanka | Dubai | October 2017 |
| 26th Over | 4 | Kusal Mendis | Caught | Sri Lanka | Dubai | October 2017 | ||
| 26th Over | 6 | Nuwan Pradeep | LBW | Sri Lanka | Dubai | October 2017 | ||
| Scott Boland | Australia | 6th Over | 1 | Kraigg Brathwaite | Caught | West Indies | Adelaide | December 2022 |
| 6th Over | 3 | Shamarh Brooks | LBW | West Indies | Adelaide | December 2022 | ||
| 6th Over | 6 | Jermaine Blackwood | Caught | West Indies | Adelaide | December 2022 | ||
| Mitchell Starc | Australia | 1st Over | 1 | John Campbell | Caught | West Indies | Kingston | July 2025 |
| 1st Over | 5 | Kevlon Anderson | LBW | West Indies | Kingston | July 2025 | ||
| 1st Over | 6 | Brandon King | Bowled | West Indies | Kingston | July 2025 | ||
| Ollie Robinson | England | 2nd Over | 3 | Devon Conway | LBW | New Zealand | Lord’s | June 2026 |
| 2nd Over | 5 | Kane Williamson | Caught | New Zealand | Lord’s | June 2026 | ||
| 2nd Over | 6 | Rachin Ravindra | LBW | New Zealand | Lord’s | June 2026 |
His feat was matched by former India all-rounder Irfan Pathan in 2006. In the first over of the third Test between India and Pakistan in Karachi, Pathan picked up three wickets in the last three balls of the first over of the match. He had opened his wicket account by dismissing Salman Butt on the fourth ball and then got rid of Younis Khan and Mohammad Yousuf in the next two deliveries.
New Zealand’s Daniel Vettori, Pakistan’s Haris Sohail, and Australia’s Mitchell Starc and Scott Boland are the only other four bowlers to dismiss three batters in their first over of a Test innings.
