Batsmen dismissed by the first ball of a test
RJ Burns was dismissed by the first ball of the test in the ongoing test between Australia and England at Brisbane to provide the 34th occasion of a batsman dismissed by the first ball of the test match in the annals of test cricket. All auch occasions are tabulated below.
| No | Player | R | BF | I | Team | Opp | Ground | Mon/Year |
| 1 | AC MacLaren | 0 | 1 | 1 | Eng | Aus | Melbourne | Dec 1894 |
| 2 | TW Hayward | 0 | 1 | 1 | Eng | SAF | The Oval | Aug 1907 |
| 3 | W Bardsley | 0 | 1 | 1 | Aus | Eng | Leeds | Jul 1926 |
| 4 | H Sutcliffe | 0 | 1 | 1 | Eng | NZl | Ch’church | Mar 1933 |
| 5 | TS Worthington | 0 | 1 | 1 | Eng | Aus | Brisbane | Dec 1936 |
| 6 | CC Hunte | 0 | 1 | 1 | Win | Pak | Trinidad | Mar 1958 |
| 7 | EJ Barlow | 0 | 1 | 1 | SAF | Aus | Durban | Jan 1967 |
| 8 | RC Fredericks | 0 | 1 | 1 | Win | Ind | Trinidad | Mar 1971 |
| 9 | KR Stackpole | 0 | 1 | 1 | Aus | NZl | Auckland | Mar 1974 |
| 10 | SM Gavaskar | 0 | 1 | 1 | Ind | Eng | Birmingham | Jul 1974 |
| 11 | SS Naik | 0 | 1 | 1 | Ind | Win | Kolkata | Dec 1974 |
| 12 | JFM Morrison | 0 | 1 | 1 | NZl | Eng | Ch’church | Feb 1975 |
| 13 | Mohsin Khan | 0 | 1 | 1 | Pak | Ind | Jalandhar | Sep 1983 |
| 14 | SM Gavaskar | 0 | 1 | 1 | Ind | Win | Kolkata | Dec 1983 |
| 15 | SM Gavaskar | 0 | 1 | 1 | Ind | Pak | Jaipur | Feb 1987 |
| 16 | WV Raman | 0 | 1 | 1 | Ind | NZl | Napier | Feb 1990 |
| 17 | SJ Cook | 0 | 1 | 1 | SAF | Ind | Durban | Nov 1992 |
| 18 | G Kirsten | 0 | 1 | 1 | Srl | Win | Cape Town | Jan 1999 |
| 19 | ST Jayasuriya | 0 | 1 | 1 | Srl | Aus | Galle | Sep 1999 |
| 20 | LV Garrick | 0 | 1 | 1 | Win | SAF | Kingston | Apr 2001 |
| 21 | SS Das | 0 | 1 | 1 | Ind | Win | Bridgetown | May 2002 |
| 22 | Hannan Sarkar | 0 | 1 | 1 | Ban | Win | Dhaka | Dec 2002 |
| 23 | Hannan Sarkar | 0 | 1 | 1 | Ban | Win | Gros Islet | May 2004 |
| 24 | Hannan Sarkar | 0 | 1 | 1 | Ban | Win | Kingston | Jun 2004 |
| 25 | W Jaffer | 0 | 1 | 1 | Ind | Ban | Chattogram | May 2007 |
| 26 | D Ganga | 0 | 1 | 1 | Win | Eng | Ch-le-St | Jun 2007 |
| 27 | TG McIntosh | 0 | 1 | 1 | NZl | Pak | Dunedin | Nov 2009 |
| 28 | AJ Strauss | 0 | 1 | 1 | Eng | SAF | Jo’burg | Jan 2010 |
| 29 | CH Gayle | 0 | 1 | 1 | Win | Srl | Pallekele | Dec 2010 |
| 30 | FDM Karunaratne | 0 | 1 | 1 | Srl | Aus | Galle | Aug 2016 |
| 31 | KL Rahul | 0 | 1 | 1 | Ind | Srl | Kolkata | Nov 2017 |
| 32 | D Elgar | 0 | 1 | 1 | SAF | Eng | Centurion | Dec 2019 |
| 33 | Abdul Malik (1) | 0 | 1 | 1 | Afg | Zim | Abu Dhabi | Mar 2021 |
| 34 | RJ Burns | 0 | 1 | 1 | Eng | Aus | Brisbane | Dec 2021 |
It also provides the fourth such occasion in the Ashes series. All the four occasions are listed below.
| No | Player | R | BF | I | Team | Opp | Ground | Mon/Year |
| 1 | W Bardsley | 0 | 1 | 1 | Aus | Eng | Leeds | Jul 1926 |
| 1 | AC MacLaren | 0 | 1 | 1 | Eng | Aus | Melbourne | Dec 1894 |
| 2 | TS Worthington | 0 | 1 | 1 | Eng | Aus | Brisbane | Dec 1936 |
| 3 | RJ Burns | 0 | 1 | 1 | Eng | Aus | Brisbane | Dec 2021 |