India v New Zealand, 2nd Test – Statistical Highlights

The Indian team was all over New Zealand once again in the 2nd Test at the Eden Gardens, Kolkata. Powered by some good batting performances and spirited bowling they were able to bowl out the Kiwis on the 4th day with 178 runs in hand.

In the last inning three of the four Indian bowlers Mohammad Shami, Ravichandran Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja picked three wickets each while Bhuvneshwar Kumar who scalped a five-wicket haul in the first innings got the one wicket of Jeetan Patel.

With this win Virat Kohli & Co. have also regained the No. 1 rank in the Test rankings from Pakistan and will stay at the top if they remain unbeaten in the series. Team India has also sealed the series 2-0; both the teams will now head to Indore for the last Test. Here we take a look at the stats and records registered during the course of the game.

3 – Only 3 India wicketkeepers before Wriddhiman Saha scored two fifty-plus scores in a Test. They were MS Dhoni (4 times), Farokh Engineer and Dilawar Hussain.

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4 – Number of openers from the visiting team who have hit a fourth-innings fifty at Eden Gardens before Tom Latham. The last one to do that was by Shahid Afridi in 2005.

4 – Number of century partnerships Team India has had for the 7th wicket in their last 5 Tests in Kolkata, including this. The previous three: MS Dhoni – VVS Laxman 259* vs SA, MS Dhoni – VVS Laxman 224 vs WI, Rohit Sharma – Ravichandran Ashwin 280 vs WI.

6 – Number of times India scored 400+ in their first innings in Kolkata in the last 7 Tests. They had lost when they didn’t do so against England in 2012 – scored 316. They made 316 in this Test match.

6 – Number of New Zealand fast bowlers who have taken 3 or more wickets in both the innings of a Test in India, including Matt Henry’s three wickets in this Test. The last to do so was Tuffey in Mohali in 2003-04.

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8 – Number of wickets the India fast bowlers grabbed in the first innings of this Test. It is the joint most by them in an Eden Gardens Tests. They had secured 8 wickets vs Pakistan in 1986-87 and vs South Africa in 1996-97.

11-0 – Team India’s record in the last 12 Tests at home. Their best winning streak is of 12 consecutive Tests at home.

12 – Virat Kohli has now led Team India in 12 Tests without having been defeated once. Here are the captains with most consecutive Tests without a defeat: S Gavaskar – 18, Kapil Dev – 17, M Azharuddin – 14, Virat Kohli* – 12.

13 – India have won last 13 Tests at home. In the past only once they had a longer winning streak at home without losing a single Test. They had won 20 Tests between January 1977 & January 1980.

13 – The previous most leg before wicket dismissals in a Test in India. It was recorded in the Ahmedabad Test involving SA in 1996-97. Ross Taylor’s dismissal in New Zealand’s second innings was the 14th of this Test.

15 – Runs accumulated by NZ’s top 3 in the first inning of this Test, it is the second-lowest for them against India in first innings of Tests. The lowest is: 14 runs in Ahmedabad in 2003-04.

27* – This is Jeetan Patel’s best Test score.

40 – Eden Gardens has hosted 40 Tests – India has won 12, lost 9 while 19 have ended as draw.

233 – The highest 4th innings score by a visiting team at Eden Gardens was scored by England in 1961-62.

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2006 – The last time Indian openers aggregated fewer runs than 34 in both innings of a home Test, was 33 vs England at Wankhede in 2005-06.

2008 – Last time Indian fast bowlers took 8 or more wickets in an innings at home, before this was against Australia in Bangalore the Indian pacers had picked 9 wickets.

India’s landmark Tests at home:

1^st – vs England, Bombay Gymkhana, 1933 – Lost by 9 wickets
50^th – vs England, Delhi, 1964 – Draw
100^th – vs Pakistan, Bangalore, 1979 – Draw
150^th – vs Zimbabwe, Delhi, 1993 – Won by an innings & 13 runs
200^th – vs Pakistan, Kolkata, 2005 – Won by 195 runs
250^th – vs New Zealand, Kolkata, 2016 – Won by 178 runs