India’s pacer Navdeep Saini who recently got a spot in the Indian Test side for their upcoming series against West Indies bowled a lethal delivery for Worcestershire in a County Championship Division Two match. Saini who signed four match deal with Worcestershire, snared Derbyshire opener Harry Came on his first ball after delivering a nip backer that rattled the batter’s stump after he left the ball. The incident transpired on the first ball of the second over of Derbyshire's first innings.
Worcestershire then took to their Twitter handle and shared the video with a caption, "How about that for a first ball in Worcestershire colours!".
Talking about the game, at the time of stumps, Derbyshire were 32/2 with Came and Luis Reece back in the pavilion. Saini and Dillon Pennington scalped a wicket each so far for Worcestershire.
After opting to bat first, Worcestershire were bundled out for 237 with skipper Jake Libby as the top scorer after making 78 runs. Libby is now the third-highest run-getter in Division Two this summer with 614 runs at an average of 61.40. Libby said, "Honours just about even? I would say so. We will be a little disappointed with the bat. We would have liked to have squeezed a few more runs.
"It is quite a slow, turgid deck, and was quite tough to score runs on it so our score is probably a bit more than what it looks like on the scoreboard.
"We bowled brilliantly this evening to get two wickets and the game is poised nicely.
Since Saini has been asked to join the Indian team for the West Indies tour, he won’t be taking part in the game against Yorkshire (July 10-13), Leicestershire (July 19-22), and Gloucestershire (July 26-29). He had signed a four-match contract earlier.