Blog Posts by HR Gopala Krishna

India's innings-and-15-run win in Kolkata is their
30^th win by an innings' margin.

This was also the second time India have beaten
West Indies by an innings, the previous instance being in Mumbai in 2002.

India's
top 12 innings wins:

The Kolkata win was also a unique one in Tests.
There's no other match in which a team has made a score of 400 or more after
following on and still lost.

RECORD FIRST-INNINGS LEADS

West Indies were

India posted 631 for 7 declared in its first innings against West
Indies at Kolkata in the ongoing test. This score represent India's 13th
team total of 600 plus runs on home soil. India now owns the record for
most team totals of 600 plus runs on home soil.

India is
the third team in the annals of test cricket to post 600 plus runs at
home on ten or more occasions. Australia and England are the other two
teams which have accomplished this feat on ten occasions. The
performance of these three teams are listed below.

In the on-going Kolkata Test, Rahul Dravid and VVS
Laxman added 140 runs for the fourth wicket.

This stand is the 87^th century
partnership involving Dravid in Test cricket, a record.

Dravid is closely followed by Sachin Tendulkar who
has 83 century partnerships.

The following table shows batsmen involved with 50
or more century stands in Test cricket, and the wicket for which they added the
runs.

Continuing with yesterday's stats, here are some more from Cape Town.

Only
on nine occasions have both sides in a Test dismissed for less than hundred. The
latest of course was the Cape Town Test, where South Africa made 96 and
Australia responded with 47. The venue has seen this happen for the second
time, the last one being 112 years ago in 1899.

The
full list:

Mark
Boucher extended his own wicketkeeping records, becoming the first gloveman in
the game's history to complete 500 Test catches.

His
catch of Phil Hughes off the bowling of Vernon Philander in the Cape Town Test
got him to the landmark.

Here's a
list of wicketkeepers with 250-plus Test catches.

Boucher's
record broken up team-wise:

SR
Tendulkar achieved another distinction in the Delhi test against West Indies.
His 76 in the second innings of the test represent his 50^th fifty in
the tests played on home soil. It was his 28^th half century and coupled
with 22 centuries he scored his 50^th fifty.  He is the third batsman in the annals of test
cricket to score 50 plus fifties on home soil. Others are RT Ponting of
Australia {55} and JH Kallis of South Africa {52}

SR Tendulkar's performance
against various teams on home soil is furnished below

V Sehwag achieved one of
the rare feats in test cricket. He scored twin fifties - 55 runs in both
innings against West Indies in the ongoing test at Delhi.

He became the 17^th batsman
in the annals of test cricket to score twin fifties - identical number of runs
in both innings of the test match. LRD Mendis of Sri
Lanka scored 105 runs in each innings against India at
Chennai. His feat remains the only occasion of a batsman scoring identical
hundred plus runs in the annals of test cricket. The complete list is furnished
below

R Ashwin's feat of 6 for 47 in the Delhi
test against West Indies in the ongoing test
gave him the distinction of bagging the best figures when a debutant spin
bowler shared the new ball. He became the fifth bowler to perform the feat.

What is more important here is that R Ashwin feat has come
after 102 years, the previous feat coming in Aug 1909 when DW Carr captured
five for 146 at The Oval.

R Ashwin became the first bowler to capture six wickets under
this category of statistics and has the best figures. The previous best was by
R Peel who had captured five for 51 for England
against Australia at Adelaide in Dec 1884.

The following table lists out the performances of
the five bowlers