Edhen Apple Tom lived a dream on Thursday.
He had visualised that he would take a wicket with his first ball on Ranji Trophy debut. He did that when he came on to bowl the 14th over for Kerala against Mizoram on the opening morning at the Saurashtra Cricket Association Ground (C).
He had opener Kishan Lyngdoh caught at slip. He didn’t realise that he had just become the first Kerala bowler ever to achieve the feat of claiming a wicket with the first ball in First Class cricket. Remarkably, he did it at the age of 17. And he went on to take three more wickets to finish with figures of four for 41 from nine overs.
