Apart from Mido's miss, Cole also had an opportunity to score but was unable to get enough control of the loose ball to test Sorensen after being put free following an error from Robert Huth.
Steven Thomson crossed for Higdon but the striker could not get his foot around the ball enough to test the Rangers goal.
And it has two promising young bowlers, Saqlain Mushtaq and Shoaib Akhtar (Shoaib is the only cricketer to have bowled Tendulkar first ball in a Test).
Kallis was three short of his Test best score of 189 when edging Oram to Brendon McCullum to end a 262-ball effort - his 28th Test century.
He was reprimanded by Lloyd for tampering with the ball during the first Test, but faced no further punishment.
Three other bowlers took wickets with the first ball of their only Test.
Virender Sehwag struck a fluent 92 as India raced to 116-0 before they lost three quick wickets, including Sourav Ganguly first ball in his final Test.
Proving the theory that runs are much easier with the newer, harder ball, Sehwag reached his 17th Test fifty with his sixth four.
There have been reports that Pakistan hold England's Stuart Broad responsible for the injury after he threw the ball at Zulqarnain during the second Test.
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Jayawardene, by contrast, made a flying start and reached his half-century at almost a run a ball, before registering his 13th Test hundred from 157 deliveries.
Admittedly, even a thorough stress test offers no crystal ball.
Australia should have scored a second try when Barnes failed to find one of six support players before flanker George Smith, playing his 100th Test, dropped the ball just short of the line.
Pietersen spoke of his delight at Broad's recall after the 22-year-old was left out for the third Test after struggling with the ball in the first two Tests.
Tim Bresnan looks well below being a Test-class new-ball bowler, and though we can bear in mind that Stuart Broad and Graham Onions are ahead of him in the reckoning, this is not proving to be a great match for Bresnan.
Following the decision to refer Michael Beer's "dismissal" of Cook that proved to be a no-ball and denied the spinner a maiden Test wicket, Johnson revealed that the front line of the popping crease is not of paramount concern during practice.
Sangakkara was out off the last ball of the innings attempting an optimistic second run, and might have been an anxious man while watching Virender Sehwag - who fired a 254-ball 293 for India in the second Test last week - and Gambhir blaze away at the top of the innings.
In a recent test, he kicked a soccer ball, walked around the room and climbed stairs without a hiccup.
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Gambhir was next to go, cutting a ball to third man to deliver a first Test wicket to Shafiul Islam.
Vaughan was dismissed for a first-ball duck on day one of the third Test against South Africa and has scored just 24 runs in his last four innings.
McIntosh struck a six and 10 fours during his four-and-a-half-hour innings but missed out on a second Test hundred when he edged a ball from Hauritz to Simon Katich shortly before the umpires offered the light.
Bell continued his impressive form in the series with a chanceless innings, including 15 fours and a six, but one-day skipper Paul Collingwood failed to get some valuable practice ahead of the Test, departing for a fourth ball duck.
Borthwick claimed a second easy catch to give Bresnan his first Test wicket when Brendan Nash guided a ball travelling down the leg side to square-leg.
So while I spent my weekends writing essays with a room full of Poindexters who preferred the thrills of multiple choice test taking to tossing around a sports ball, I maintained a healthy social life, which, to my naive mind, also meant picking up a couple of bad habits.
Brearley missed the final Test after his arm was broken by a ball from Sikander Bahkt during a warm-up game.
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Alastair Cook and Jonathan Trott both fell to the new ball and Andrew Strauss became Wayne Parnell's first Test victim before bad light halted play.
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In terms of the batting, opener Phil Hughes showed he is susceptible to the short ball and, along with Ponting, goes into the first Test lacking runs.
Having reached his second Test century, Dhoni fell to the second new ball shortly before the close, caught behind off Prasad, leaving Harbhajan Singh to keep Dravid company at stumps on two.
In November 1988, he became the third West Indian to take a hat-trick in a Test match, dismissing Tony Dodemaide with the last ball of the first innings, and Mike Valetta and Graeme Wood with the first two balls of the second.
Hair made the offer in the wake of the ball-tampering row at last week's England v Pakistan Test at The Oval.
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