West Indian batsman R Chandrika who has been named in the West Indies squad to play India in the first test at North Sound on 21^st July 2016 had collected a pair on his test debut against Australia at Kingston in Jun 2015. His debut pair provides the 40^th occasion of a batsman collecting a pair on test debut. All such occasions are listed below in the chronological order

No	Player	FI	SI	Team	Oppn	Ground	Start Date
1	GF Grace	0	0	Eng	Aus	The Oval	06 Sep 1880
2	CS Wimble	0	0	SAF	Eng	Cape Town	19 Mar 1892
3	JT Willoughby	0	0	SAF	Eng	Port Elizabeth	13 Feb 1896
4	JJ Kotze	0	0	SAF	Aus	Johannesburg	18 Oct 1902
5	PS Twentyman-Jones	0	0	SAF	Aus	Cape Town	08 Nov 1902
6	TA Ward	0	0	SAF	Aus	Manchester	27 May 1912
7	PT Lewis	0	0	SAF	Eng	Durban	13 Dec 1913
8	CD Dixon	0	0	SAF	Eng	Johannesburg	01 Jan 1914
9	FT Badcock	0	0	NZl	Eng	Christchurch	10 Jan 1930
10	KC James	0	0	NZl	Eng	Christchurch	10 Jan 1930
11	CIJ Smith	0	0	Eng	Win	Bridgetown	08 Jan 1935
12	LA Butterfield	0	0	NZl	Aus	Wellington	29 Mar 1946
13	CG Rowe	0	0	NZl	Aus	Wellington	29 Mar 1946
14	CN McCarthy	0	0	SAF	Eng	Durban	16 Dec 1948
15	AL Valentine	0	0	Win	Eng	Manchester	08 Jun 1950
16	GS Ramchand	0	0	Ind	Eng	Leeds	05 Jun 1952
17	GA Gooch	0	0	Eng	Aus	Birmingham	10 Jul 1975
18	BP Bracewell	0	0	NZl	Eng	The Oval	27 Jul 1978
19	MR Whitney	0	0	Aus	Eng	Manchester	13 Aug 1981
20	Maninder Singh	0	0	Ind	Pak	Karachi	23 Dec 1982
21	KR Rutherford	0	0	NZl	Win	Port of Spain	29 Mar 1985
22	CM Kuggeleijn	0	0	NZl	Ind	Bangalore	12 Nov 1988
23	RGM Patel	0	0	Ind	NZl	Mumbai	24 Nov 1988
24	MS Atapattu	0	0	Srl	Ind	Chandigarh	23 Nov 1990
25	Saeed Anwar	0	0	Pak	Win	Faisalabad	23 Nov 1990
26	AA Donald	0	0	SAF	Win	Bridgetown	18 Apr 1992
27	SG Peall	0	0	Zim	Pak	Karachi	01 Dec 1993
28	PE McIntyre	0	0	Aus	Eng	Adelaide	26 Jan 1995
29	DP Viljoen	0	0	Zim	Pak	Bulawayo	14 Mar 1998
30	GM Hamilton	0	0	Eng	SAF	Johannesburg	25 Nov 1999
31	JEC Franklin	0	0	NZl	Pak	Auckland	08 Mar 2001
32	Alamgir Kabir	0	0	Ban	Pak	Colombo (PSS)	21 Jul 2002
33	KHRK Fernando	0	0	Srl	SAF	Johannesburg	08 Nov 2002
34	SL Malinga	0	0	Srl	Aus	Darwin	01 Jul 2004
35	LPC Silva	0	0	Srl	NZl	Christchurch	07 Dec 2006
36	CT Tremlett	0	0	Eng	Ind	Lord’s	19 Jul 2007
37	MR Gillespie	0	0	NZl	SAF	Centurion	16 Nov 2007
38	D Elgar	0	0	SAF	Aus	Perth	30 Nov 2012
39	N M’shangwe	0	0	Zim	Ban	Khulna	03 Nov 2014
40	R Chandrika	0	0	Win	Aus	Kingston	11 Jun 2015

R Chandrika became the second West Indies batsman to collect a pair on test debut after AL Valentine. AL Valentine has bagged a pair on his test debut against England at Manchester in Jun 1950. R Chandika emulated him after a gap of 65 years !!!!!!!!!!!!!

No	Player	FI	SI	Team	Oppn	Ground	Start Date
1	AL Valentine	0	0	Win	Eng	Manchester	08 Jun 1950
2	R Chandrika	0	0	Win	Aus	Kingston	11 Jun 2015

R Chandrika became the tenth batsman to collect a pair on debut against Australia. The list includes GF Grace and GA Gooch of England

No	Player	FI	SI	Team	Oppn	Ground	Start Date
1	GF Grace	0	0	Eng	Aus	The Oval	06 Sep 1880
2	JJ Kotze	0	0	SAF	Aus	Johannesburg	18 Oct 1902
3	PS Twentyman-Jones	0	0	SAF	Aus	Cape Town	08 Nov 1902
4	TA Ward	0	0	SAF	Aus	Manchester	27 May 1912
5	LA Butterfield	0	0	NZl	Aus	Wellington	29 Mar 1946
6	CG Rowe	0	0	NZl	Aus	Wellington	29 Mar 1946
7	GA Gooch	0	0	Eng	Aus	Birmingham	10 Jul 1975
8	SL Malinga	0	0	Srl	Aus	Darwin	01 Jul 2004
9	D Elgar	0	0	SAF	Aus	Perth	30 Nov 2012
10	R Chandrika	0	0	Win	Aus	Kingston	11 Jun 2015

R Chandrika is one of the four opening batsmen to collect a pair on debut. Others are – KR Rutherford of New Zealand, Saeed Anwar of Pakistan and DP Vijolen of Zimbabwe. The performance of these four batsmen are listed below. R Chandrika is the first West Indian opening batsman to suffer such an ignominy

No	Player	FI	SI	Team	Oppn	Ground	Start Date
1	KR Rutherford	0	0	NZl	Win	Port of Spain	29 Mar 1985
2	Saeed Anwar	0	0	Pak	Win	Faisalabad	23 Nov 1990
3	DP Viljoen	0	0	Zim	Pak	Bulawayo	14 Mar 1998
4	R Chandrika	0	0	Win	Aus	Kingston	11 Jun 2015