Shamar Joseph of Wesr Indies dismissed SPD Smirh of Australia off his first ball in test cricket at Melbourne in the ongoing test between the two teams to provide the 23^rd occasion of a bowler capturing a wicket of the first ball bowled in a test. All such occasions are tabulated below

No	Bowler	Batsman	Team	Opp	Ground	Season
1	TP Horan	WW Read	Aus	Eng	Sydney	1882-83
2	A Coningham	AC MacLaren	Aus	Eng	Melbourne	1894-95
3	WM Bradley	F Laver	Eng	Aus	Manchester	1899
4	EG Arnold	VT Trumper	Eng	Aus	Sydney	1903-04
5	AEE Vogler	EG Hayes	SAF	Eng	Johannesburg	1905-06
6	JN Crawford	AEE Vogler	Eng	SAF	Johannesburg	1905-06
7	GG Macaulay	GAL Hearne	Eng	SAF	Cape Town	1922-23
9	MW Tate	MJ Susskind	Eng	SAF	Birmingham	1924
9	M Henderson	EW Dawson	NZ	Eng	Christchurch	1929-30
10	HD Smith	E Paynter	NZ	Eng	Christchurch	1932-33
11	TF Johnson	WW Keeton	Win	Eng	The Oval	1939
12	Keith Miller	Walter Hadlee	Aus	NZl	Wellington	1945-46
13	R Howorth	D V Dyer	Eng	SAF	The Oval	1947
14	Intikhab Alam	CC McDonald	Pak	Aus	Karachi	1959-60
15	RK Illingworth	PV Simmons	Eng	Win	Nottingham	1991
15	NM Kulkarni	MS Atapattu	Ind	Srl	Colombo	1997
17	MKGCP Lakshitha	Mohammad Ashraful	Srl	Ban	Colombo	2002
18	NM Lyon	KC Sangakkara	Aus	Srl	Galle	2011
19	RMS Eranga	SR Watson	Srl	Aus	Col-SSC	2011
20	DL Piedt	MA Vermeulen	SAF	Zim	Harare	2014
21	GC Viljoen	AN Cook	SAF	Eng	Johannesburg	2015-16
22	Nijat Masood	Zakir Hasan	Ban	Afg	Mirpur	2023
23	Shamar Joseph	Steven Smith `	Win	Aus	Adelaide	2023