But starting your Test career with a bang is no guarantee of continuing in similar fashion, as the first man to do so would attest.

BBC: One-ball wonders

Four days on he claimed the 200m title in a world-record time of 19.32 - making him the first man to do the 200m-400m Olympic double.

BBC: SPORT | Athletics | Johnson on rising stars and records

The first pride of a man is to do well for the guy who pays you.

BBC: Club needs to come first - Wenger

Perhaps this has to do with my being the partner of the first openly gay man to win a seat as a nonincumbent.

CNN: Commentary: A 'congressional spouse' breaks barriers

He's the second man in the history of tennis to do this at a Grand Slam tournament, and the first time was in 1927, when Henri Cochet won his final three matches at Wimbledon after losing the first two sets in each.

WSJ: Heard on the Field