India v England, 4th Test, Day 2 – Statistical Highlights

The Indian bowlers allowed England tail-enders to add important runs to reach 400-mark only before their batsmen took the game in control at Mumbai. India picked 3 early wickets in the morning before Jos Buttler with a 76, added 54 runs for 9th wicket along with Jake Ball to help their side to 400. India lost KL Rahul’s wicket early but Murali Vijay and Cheteshwar Pujara’s century stand put them on 146/1 at end of the 2nd day’s play. Here we look at all the stats and records recorded during the day’s play.

0 – Number of times England has lost a Test when they scored 400 or more while batting first in a Test in the subcontinent. They scored 400 in this game in the first innings while batting first.

2 – Ravi Ashwin became only the 2nd bowler to take seven 5-wicket hauls in consecutive calendar years. Muttiah Muralitharan did it in 2000 and 2001.

3 – For the 3rd consecutive instance, England has scored 400+ in their first innings in Tests at Mumbai. They scored 400 in 2006 and 413 in 2012.

5 – Jennings became the 5th South Africa-born player to score a century on Test debut while playing for any other team than South Africa. Interestingly, South Africa has only 6 players with a century on Test debut.

6 – Century stands between Vijay and Pujara for the 2nd wicket in Tests, joint 2nd most since their first innings as a pair in October 2010.

7 – Number of 5-wicket hauls Ravichandran Ashwin has in Tests in 2016, the joint most by any Indian in a calendar year. Ashwin himself holds the record with 7 five-fers in 2015.

7 – Century stands between Vijay and Pujara in Test cricket, the most for any Indian pair since their first innings as a pair in October 2010. No Indian pair has more than 4 century stands in this period.

8 – Number of times only two bowlers picked all the 10 wickets in an innings in Tests for India since 2000. Ashwin-Jadeja picking all the 10 was the 3rd instance for India in 3 years.

11 – First time since 1993, Team India is playing a Test match with an XI of players with at least one first-class century. Last time this happened was in 1993 vs Zimbabwe at Delhi.

12 – Vijay-Pujara pair became the 12th pair to aggregate 2000 runs in Tests for the 2nd wicket. They are the 4th Indian pair to do so after Gavaskar-Vengsarkar, Sehwag-Dravid and Gambhir-Dravid.

23 – Number of 5-wicket hauls Ravichandran Ashwin has in Test cricket, joint 3rd most for any Indian.

24.72 – India’s average for 1st wicket since July 2015, the 2nd worst for any team in this period. West Indies’ 21.54 is the lowest.

1977 – Last time before this match, England lost all their 10 wickets to Indian spinners in a Test innings was in 1977 also at Mumbai.