Records galore in India’s thumping win
BY Agencies22 Dec 2016 10:45 PM GMT
Agencies22 Dec 2016 10:45 PM GMT
- The Indian Test team are now unbeaten for a record 18 matches. The previous record stood at 17 between 1985-87
- The Indian Test team scripted its ninth win of the current calendar year for the
- first time
- The 4-0 series win is also their biggest-ever against England. Their previous best was the 3-0 series verdict under Mohammad Azharuddin’s captaincy in 1992-93
- With the win over England, the team registered their 5th successive Test series victory since September 2015
- In the fifth and final match of the series, India notched up their highest total in Test cricket, 759 for 7 declared
- The victory by an innings and 75 runs in the final Test is India’s biggest win margin against England
- In the Chennai Test, Ravindra Jadeja became the first all-rounder to post a fifty, capture 10 wickets or more and take four catches in a Test match
- India have won nine Tests out of 12 played this year, which is also the most by the team in a calendar year, eclipsing the eight victories out of 14 in 2010
- In the second innings of the last Test, Jadeja took Cook’s wicket for the 6th time in the series — the most occasions a bowler has claimed his wicket in a Test series
- Playing in only his third match, Karun Nair (303 not out) became only the second Indian to score a tripe century in Test cricket after Virender Sehwag (twice)
- Nair is only the third batsman after the legendary Sir Garfield Sobers and Bob Simpson to have converted his debut Test hundred into a triple ton
- England, with defeats at Mumbai and Chennai Tests, have earned a dubious distinction of recording successive defeats by an innings margin despite scoring 400 or more runs in both the matches — the first team to do so
- Ravichandran Ashwin stands at the top spot in the ICC Test bowlers’ ranking list with 887 points
- Ashwin ended the England Test series with 28 wickets
- Ashwin contributed 306 runs with the bat in the series and stands at the first spot in the ICC Test all-rounder ranking list with 482 points
ICC Test bowler No.2
- Ravindra Jadeja’s maiden 10-wicket match haul against England in the Chennai Test propelled him to the second position
- His performance has earned him 66 points and brought him within eight points of Ashwin
- Owing to Jadeja’s contribution with the bat, he has achieved his career-best third rank leapfrogging Josh Hazlewood,James Anderson, Dale Steyn and Rangana Herath
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