AR Patel captured five for 60 in England’s second innings to provide the 167^th occasion of a bowler capturing five or more wickets on test debut. He became the second Indian bowler to capture five plus wickets on test debut against England after M Nissar. M Nissar had captured five for 93 against England at Lord’s in Jun 1932. This test was incidentally India’s first ever test match. Thus AR Patel emulated M Nissar in capturing five plus wickets on test debut against England after a gap of 88 years and 08 months.

No	Player	Wkts	I	Opp	Ground	Start Date
1	M Nissar	5-093	1	Eng	Lord’s	25 Jun 1932
2	AR Patel	5-060	4	Eng	Chennai	13 Feb 2021

AR Patel’s feat of five for 60 in this test provide the 49^th occasion of a bowler capturing five plus wickets on test debut against England. He became the 46^th bowler to perform such a feat on test debut.