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Stats Analysis

Opening defiance, captain Kohli's runs, and Rashid's success

Stats highlights from an engrossing fourth day in Visakhapatnam

S Rajesh
S Rajesh
20-Nov-2016
Among India captains, only Sunil Gavaskar has scored more runs in a Test than Virat Kohli  •  ESPNcricinfo Ltd

Among India captains, only Sunil Gavaskar has scored more runs in a Test than Virat Kohli  •  ESPNcricinfo Ltd

248 Virat Kohli's match aggregate - 167 in the first innings and 81 in the second. There are only three instances of an India captain scoring more runs in a Test: the top two are both by Sunil Gavaskar against West Indies in the 1978-79 home series, while Kohli made 256 in Adelaide a couple of years ago.
2 Instances, since 2000, of an overseas opening pair batting 50 or more overs in a team's second innings in India. Both those instances have come in this series: in Rajkot, Alastair Cook and Haseeb Hameed stayed together for 58.4 overs, adding 180 for the first wicket; today, they scored 75 in 50.2 overs. This is only the fifth instance of overseas opening pairs batting for more than 30 overs in the second innings in India during this period, and four of them have involved Cook: with Andrew Strauss in 2006, with Nick Compton in 2012, and twice with Hameed in this series.
Overseas opening pairs facing 30+ overs in team's 2nd inngs in India, since 2000
Partners Runs Overs RR Ground Year
 AN Cook, H Hameed (ENG)  75  50.2  1.49  Visakhapatnam  2016
 AN Cook, H Hameed (ENG)  180  58.4  3.06  Rajkot  2016
 NRD Compton, AN Cook (ENG)  123  45  2.73  Ahmedabad  2012
 BB McCullum, TG McIntosh (NZ)  125  35.4  3.5  Hyderabad  2010
 AN Cook, AJ Strauss (ENG)  95  33  2.87  Nagpur  2006
1.49 The partnership run rate between Cook and Hameed, England's lowest for an opening stand lasting 100 or more balls in Tests (where balls-faced data is available). The previous lowest was 1.60, between Cook and Compton in Nagpur in 2012.
11 Fifty-plus scores for Cook in the fourth innings of Tests; only four batsmen have more: Shivnarine Chanderpaul, Chris Gayle, Graeme Smith (13 each), and Gavaskar (12).
171 Balls faced by Cook for his half-century, the slowest of his career; his previous slowest took 164 balls, against Australia at Trent Bridge in 2013, and against Sri Lanka in Colombo in 2012.
4 Openers under the age of 20 who have faced 100-plus balls in the fourth innings of a Test: Zahid Fazal (Pakistan), Nafees Iqbal (Bangladesh), Archie Jackson (Australia), and Hameed.
13 Wickets for Adil Rashid in the series so far, the fourth best by any overseas legspinner in the last 50 years in India. Overall, there are only six instances of overseas legspinners taking more wickets in a Test series in India.
Most wickets by an overseas legspinner in a Test series in India
Bowler Team Tests Wickets Average Year
  Richie Benaud   AUS  5  29  19.59  1959-60
  Richie Benaud   AUS  3  23  16.87  1956-57
  Danish Kaneria   PAK  3  19  31.53  2004-05
  Shane Warne   AUS  3  14  30.07  2004-05
  Imran Tahir   RSA  4  14  21.36  2015-16
  Jim Higgs   AUS  6  14  50.14  1979-80
1959 The last time an England legspinner took more than 13 wickets in any series: Tommy Greenhough, who had a four-Test career, took 14 from three Tests in a home series against India in 1959. Before that, Roly Jenkins took 16 in South Africa in 1948.
140 The most overs England have faced in the fourth innings in Asia, in Kandy in 2003. Their highest in any fourth innings is 218.2 eight-ball overs (291 six-ball overs), while their best in the last 60 years is 165 overs, in Johannesburg in 1995.
Most overs faced by England in the 4th innings in Asia
Score Overs RPO Result Opposition Ground Year
 285/7  140  2.03  draw  Sri Lanka  Kandy  2003
 312  137.3  2.26  lost  Pakistan  Dubai (DSC)  2015
 206/3  134  1.53  draw  India  Mumbai (BS)  1964
 233  116.2  2.00  lost  India  Kolkata  1961
 186/1  81.4x8  1.71  draw  Pakistan  Hyderabad (Sind)  1978
 210/9  108  1.94  draw  Sri Lanka  Galle  2003
With inputs from Shiva Jayaraman.

S Rajesh is stats editor of ESPNcricinfo. @rajeshstats