India look to extend 14-year unbeaten streak

15 Consecutive Tests in which West Indies haven't beaten India, starting from their tour of India in 2002. India have won eight, and seven have been drawn. India are the only team West Indies haven't beaten in a Test since October 2002. Among top eight teams in this period, apart from West Indies, only Sri Lanka have gone without a Test win against a particular opposition - Australia (13 Tests).

0 Number of 50-plus opening stands for West Indies in 21 Test innings since the start of 2015. They have averaged just 16.38 with a highest of 35, easily the lowest for any Test team. In 2014, they had converted eight of their 13 opening partnerships into 50-plus stands.

42.70 Average runs per wicket in Tests at the Sir Vivian Richards Stadium in North Sound, Antigua - the highest among all venues that have hosted four or more Tests. Excluding the 2008-09 Test between England and the hosts here, which was abandoned after ten balls due to bad pitch conditions, teams have managed to score 300-plus in seven of the 12 innings. The lowest a team has been bowled out for here is 272.

69.1 Balls per wicket for spinners in Tests in the West Indies since March 2006, which is way better than what it was ten years prior to that - 85.9. They have done even better in the last five years, striking every 64.1 balls. Spinners have taken 24 five-wicket hauls in 41 Tests in the West Indies since June 2006, as opposed to just 13 such hauls in 51 Tests between June 1995 and May 2005. Spinners have recorded five ten-wicket hauls in Tests in the West Indies, three of which have come in the last five years.

56.58 R Ashwin's bowling average outside Asia in nine Tests. In contrast, he averages 20.47 in Asia, where he has gone wicketless only three times in 45 innings. Outside the subcontinent, he has endured wicketless innings four times in 14 innings.

22 Wickets taken by Ishant Sharma on India's previous tour of the West Indies, in 2011 - his most productive series. Ishant took his maiden ten-wicket haul in that series, when he returned 10 for 108 in Bridgetown.

1 India batsmen in the squad who have scored 90-plus at least once in each of their last seven Test series - Ajinkya Rahane. He scored at least one century in five of those series, missing out on triple digits only against South Africa (highest of 96) and Bangladesh (98). Coming into this series, Rahane has two successive centuries: 127 and 100 not out against South Africa at the Feroz Shah Kotla in December last year.

4 Test wins for West Indies against top-eight teams in their last ten home matches - three against New Zealand and one against England. They took 35 matches to register four wins against top-eight teams at home prior to that.

2 Uncapped players in West Indies' squad for the first Test - Miguel Cummins and Roston Chase. Cummins took 33 wickets at 20.69 in West Indies' domestic first-class tournament this season, while Chase had 23 wickets at a slightly better average of 17.26. Chase also had 710 runs from the season, at 59.16. For India, Shardul Thakur, who took 41 wickets in the 2015-16 Ranji Trophy at 24.51, is the only uncapped player.