Nightmare debut for Windies' Chandrika

West Indies batsman Rajendra Chandrika has had a debut to forget in the second Test against Australia at Jamaica's Sabina Park.

The 25-year-old Guyanese opener became the 40^th player in the history of Test cricket to score a pair on debut – recording ducks in both innings.

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Mitchell Starc was his nemesis in both innings. Chandrika drove hard at a ball slanting across him from the left-armer in the first innings to give wicketkeeper Brad Haddin a simple catch in the first innings. And today, a similar shot squirted to Shaun Marsh in the gully who took a good low catch going forward.

Chandrika was handed his Test debut cap by West Indies legend Curtly Ambrose at Sabina Park, drafted into the side after Marlon Samuels was ruled out with illness.

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Chandrika receives his Test cap in Kingston // WICB

The opener's inclusion pushed Shai Hope, who made his debut just two Tests ago against England in Barbados, down the order to No.5.

Chandrika's pair was the 10^th time Australia's bowlers have inflicted the ignominious mark on opposing batsmen, and he was just the second West Indian to have that fate befall him.

The previous West Indian pair was recorded by spinner and No.11 batsman Alf Valentine in Manchester in 1950, who faced three and six balls for his pair, caught and bowled by Robert Berry in the first innings before succumbing to the spin of Eric Hollies in the second.

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Chandrika is the first pair on debut to fall to the same bowler in both innings since Mitchell Johnson did it to Dean Elgar in Perth in December 2012.

Chandrika will be hoping he has a longer career than the first man in Test history to record a pair; Fred Grace, the younger brother of the legendary WG Grace, who played in the first Test match in England in September 1980. He never played again, dying from pneumonia two weeks later.

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Johnson picked up Elgar twice in Perth // Getty Images

There are others, however, who have gone on to have long and successful careers after scoring a debut pair.

England's Graham Gooch was caught behind by Rod Marsh twice, first off the bowling of Max Walker and then Jeff Thompson, on his debut in an Ashes Test at Edgbaston in 1975.

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Gooch departs, caught Marsh on debut // Getty Images

By the time he retired, he was England's then leading Test run-scorer with 8,900 next to his name and a veteran of 118 Tests.

Chandrika can also take comfort from the debut pairs by great opening batsmen Saeed Anwar and Marvan Atapattu, whose pairs came in separate matches but at the same time.

Anwar scored more than 4000 Test runs before he finished his Test career, but in his opening dig in November 1990 he was undone by the West Indian greats of Curlty Ambrose and Ian Bishop, both at Sabina Park today.

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Atapattu score more than 5500 Test runs in 90 Tests but his first Test against India, played on the same days as Anwar's debut, was a horror show for the Sri Lankan team.

Atapattu's first inning duck was one of five ducks in the innings. Four of them were to the left-arm spin of Venkatapathy Raju, who took a career-best 6-12 in that innings. Sri Lanka scored another five ducks in the second innings, in which Atapattu was one of Kapil Dev's four victims.

Pairs on Test debut v Australia

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