RJ Burns of England collected the first ball duck in England’s second innings against India in the first test at Chennai of the ongoing test series against India to provide the 117^th occasion of an opening batsman batting at number one collecting the first ball duck in the annals of test cricket. It also provides the 23^rd occasion of an England batsman to suffer such an ignominy. All such occasions are tabulated below.

No	Player	Runs	BF	I	Opp	Ground	Start Date
1	WG Grace	0	1	2	Aus	Lord’s	21 Jul 1890
2	AC MacLaren	0	1	1	Aus	Melbourne	29 Dec 1894
3	AC MacLaren	0	1	3	Aus	Sydney	26 Feb 1898
4	LC Braund	0	1	4	Aus	Melbourne	05 Mar 1904
5	PF Warner	0	1	3	SAF	Jo’burg	06 Mar 1906
6	TW Hayward	0	1	1	SAF	The Oval	19 Aug 1907
7	CAG Russell	0	1	2	Aus	Sydney	17 Dec 1920
8	H Sutcliffe	0	1	1	NZl	Ch’church	24 Mar 1933
9	TS Worthington	0	1	1	Aus	Brisbane	04 Dec 1936
10	L Hutton	0	1	3	Aus	Brisbane	29 Nov 1946
11	LB Fishlock	0	1	3	Aus	Sydney	28 Feb 1947
12	RT Simpson	0	1	4	Aus	Brisbane	01 Dec 1950
13	BW Luckhurst	0	1	3	Pak	Leeds	08 Jul 1971
14	AR Lewis	0	1	2	Ind	Mum-BS	06 Feb 1973
15	G Boycott	0	1	3	Aus	Sydney	06 Jan 1979
16	G Fowler	0	1	2	NZl	Auckland	10 Feb 1984
17	GA Gooch	0	1	2	NZl	Nottingham	07 Jun 1990
18	MA Atherton	0	1	4	Win	Trinidad	25 Mar 1994
19	ME Trescothick	0	1	3	SAF	Nottingham	14 Aug 2003
20	ME Trescothick	0	1	4	SAF	P Elizabeth	17 Dec 2004
21	AJ Strauss	0	1	1	SAF	Jo’burg	14 Jan 2010
22	AN Cook	0	1	4	Aus	Perth	13 Dec 2013
23	RJ Burns	0	1	3	Ind	Chennai	05 Feb 2021

RJ Burns became the second England opening batsman batting at number one to collect the first ball duck against India after AR Lewis. Both the occasions are listed below

No	Player	Runs	BF	I	Opp	Ground	Start Date
1	AR Lewis	0	1	2	Ind	Mum-BS	06 Feb 1973
2	RJ Burns	0	1	3	Ind	Chennai	05 Feb 2021

It also provides the eleventh occasion of an an opening batsman batting at number one collecting the first ball duck in the annals of test cricket against India. All such occasions are tabulated below.

No	Player	Runs	BF	I	Team	Ground	Start Date
1	RC Fredericks	0	1	1	Win	Trindiad	06 Mar 1971
2	AR Lewis	0	1	2	Eng	Mum-BS	06 Feb 1973
3	Mohsin Khan	0	1	1	Pak	Jalandhar	24 Sep 1983
4	SJ Cook	0	1	1	SAF	Durban	13 Nov 1992
5	KJ Arnott	0	1	2	Zim	Delhi	13 Mar 1993
6	Nafees Iqbal	0	1	3	Ban	Chattogram	17 Dec 2004
7	Javed Omar	0	1	2	Ban	Dhaka	25 May 2007
8	Javed Omar	0	1	3	Ban	Dhaka	25 May 2007
9	TM Dilshan	0	1	2	Srl	Kanpur	24 Nov 2009
10	Karunaratne	0	1	2	Srl	Delhi	02 Dec 2017
11	RJ Burns	0	1	3	Eng	Chennai	05 Feb 2021