• Ravichandran Aswhin has given India's fans reasons
    to rejoice after his stupendous all-round act in the
    Mumbai Test    . 


    The off-spinner took 5-156 and 4-34, and also
    scored 103 batting at No. 8. He is just the fifth cricketer in Test history to
    score a hundred and take nine wickets in a game.


    The others:

     

    No

    Player

    Team

    Oppn

    Runs

    Wkts

    Ground

    Mon/Year

    1

    IT Botham

    Eng

    Ind

    114

    13-106

    Mumbai

    Feb 1980

    2

    Imran Khan

    Eng

    Ind

    117

    11-180

    Faisalabad

    Jan 1983

    3

    JH Sinclair

    SAF

    Eng

    106

    9-89

    Cape Town

    Apr 1899

    4

    R Benaud

    Aus

    SAF

    100

    9-154

    Johannesburg

    Feb 1958

    Rare All-round Act


    Ashwin's
    performance would whet the appetite of those who've been waiting for the
    arrival of a genuine Indian all-rounder.


    His
    rare act of a hundred and a fiver in a Test has been done only by 19 other
    cricketers.


    The
    last time it happened in India was in 1980, interestingly at the same venue, by
    Ian Botham.


    The 27 occasions of a hundred

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  •  


    Scoring runs against the West Indies was a big
    deal a couple of decades ago. Their army of vicious pace bowlers made the team
    phenomenally successful in the 1970s and 1980s.


    It was then that Sunil Gavaskar made most of his 2,749
    runs against them, the most anyone has made against the Caribbean side.


    Sachin Tendulkar, during the course of his 94 in
    the Mumbai Test, completed 1500 Test runs against the West Indies, become the
    19th batsman and the fifth Indian to do so.


    Among current players, Jacques Kallis with 2356
    runs is the leader.


    The
    five Indians:


    No

    Player

    Team

    Mat

    Inns

    NO

    Runs

    HS

    Ave

    100

    50

    0

    1

    SM Gavaskar

    Ind

    27

    48

    6

    2749

    236*

    65.45

    13

    7

    5

    2

    R Dravid

    Ind

    23

    37

    7

    1945

    146

    64.83

    5

    13

    0

    3

    VVS Laxman

    Ind

    22

    35

    6

    1684

    176*

    58.06

    4

    11

    3

    4

    DB Vengsarkar

    Ind

    25

    40

    4

    1596

    159

    44.33

    6

    7

    5

    5

    SR Tendulkar

    Ind

    19

    29

    2

    1543

    179

    57.14

    3

    9

    3

    West

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  • Ravichandran Ashwin's 5 for 156 and 103 in the second Test at Mumbai
    against West Indies provide the 27th occasion an all-round
    performance - batsman scoring a hundred and capturing five or more wickets in
    the same Test. All the 27 such occasions are listed below:


    No

    Player

    Bat

    Bowl

    Team

    Oppn

    Ground

    Mon/Year

    1

    JH Sinclair

    106

    6/026

    SAF

    Eng

    Cape Town

    Apr 1899

    2

    GA Faulkner

    123

    5/120

    SAF

    Eng

    Johannesburg

    Jan 1910

    3

    C Kelleway

    114

    5/033

    Aus

    SAF

    Manchester

    May 1912

    4

    JM Gregory

    100

    7/069

    Aus

    Eng

    Melbourne

    Dec 1920

    5

    MH Mankad

    184

    5/196

    Ind

    Eng

    Lord's

    Jun 1952

    6

    DS Atkinson

    219

    5/056

    Win

    Aus

    Bridgetown

    May 1955

    7

    KR Miller

    109

    6/107

    Aus

    Win

    Kingston

    Jun 1955

    8

    R Benaud

    100

    5/084

    Aus

    SAF

    Johannesburg

    Feb 1958

    9

    OG Smith

    100

    5/090

    Win

    Ind

    Delhi

    Feb 1959

    10

    PR Umrigar

    172*

    5/107

    Ind

    Win

    Port of Spain

    Apr 1962

    11

    GS

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