Tom Horan the first bowler in cricket.Nineteen bowlers have taken a wicket with the very first ball they bowled in an international cricket match. The first bowler to perform this feat in Test cricket was Australian Arthur Coningham, who dismissed Archie MacLaren with his first ball in 1895.The most recent is South African bowler Dane Piedt who joined the record holders on 9 August 2014, when he trapped Zimbabwe's Mark Vermeulen in front and dismissed him LBW. Six of these fourteen bowlers have been English cricketers.However, this accomplishment has not always led to a long and illustrious career.Only Maurice Tate, Intikhab Alam and Nathan Lyon went on to play in more than ten Tests.Arthur Coningham, Matt Henderson, Dennis Smith, and Tyrell Johnson played just one match each, and Smith's only Test wicket was the one he took with his first ball.

Eighteen bowlers have taken a wicket with their first ball in a One Day International (ODI) match. The first to accomplish this was English bowler Geoff Arnold, who bowled out Graeme Watson in 1972. The most recent is Indian Bhuvneshwar Kumar, who captured the wicket of Mohammad Hafeez (also innings 1st ball wicket) on 30 December 2012.Not all of these bowlers took their first wicket in their debut match. Clive Lloyd, Inzamam-ul-Haq, Sadagoppan Ramesh, and Martin van Jaarsveld did not get a chance to bowl on their debut matches, and took their first wicket in a later match.Ramesh and Wavell Hinds took their first wickets during the same match in 1999, the former in the first innings of the match and the latter in the second.It was also the only wicket taken by Ramesh during his ODI career.