It was the 1531st Test in cricket history.It was India's 337th and Australia's 612th Test match.It was the 58th match between these two sides. The record now reads: Australia 29, India 11, tied one and drawn 17.It was the 180th Test in India and 30th between these two sides. The record now reads: Australia 10, India 8, tied one and drawn 11.It was the 18th Test at Wankhede Stadium and 36th to be played in Mumbai. Incidentally Wankhede Stadium has now hosted second highest number of Tests in India. Eden Gardens (in Calcutta) leads the table with 30 Tests.Umpires David Shepherd and S Venkataraghavan were standing in their 55th and 43rd match respectively. Shepherd, by officiating in this Test, went past West Indian Steve Bucknor's tally of 54 Tests. Now only fellow countryman Dicky Bird (66 games) has stood in more Tests than Shepherd.Rahul Sanghvi became 234th player to represent India in Test cricket.Javagal Srinath was playing his 50th Test match. He became 18th Indian and 165th player overall to do so.Tendulkar (76) contributed 43.18% in India's first innings score. It was the ninth instance when Tendulkar contributed 40 percent or more in a completed innings for India which takes him past of Sunil Gavaskar who had eight such instances on his name.It was the 22nd time when Tendulkar was top scoring in a completed innings for India. He thus went ahead of Dilip Vengsarkar who has top scored for India on 21 occasions . Now only Sunil Gavaskar (39) is ahead of Tendulkar for India. Tendulkar, later in the second innings, extended his tally of such instances to 23.The wicket of Ajit Agarkar in first innings was 15th for Shane Warne as caught and bowled. He has now equalled the tally of West Indian Lance Gibbs and countryman Hugh Trumble. Now only Englishman Derek Underwood (20), India's Anil Kumble (18) and Australia's Richie Benaud (17) have taken more wickets in this fashion than Warne.All ten Indian wickets fell as caught in first innings. This provided the seventh such instance for India. The others being v West Indies at Port-of-Spain in 1970-71, v England at Lord's in 1971, v West Indies at Bridgetown in 1982-83, v New Zealand at Hyderabad in 1988-89, v Australia at Perth in 1991-92 and v South Africa at Port Elizabeth in 1992-93. Incidentally India has also dismissed the opposition in this fashion on seven occasions.Shane Warne (4-47) returned his best figures against India. His previous best was 4 for 85 at Chennai in 1997-98.Adam Gilchrist by taking four catches in the first innings equalled existing Australian record of most dismissals in an innings on Indian soil. Wally Grout (at Delhi in 1959-60 and at Madras in 1964-65) and Ken Wright (at Calcutta in 1979-80) are the others to do so for Australia.The sixth wicket partnership of 197 runs between Mathew Hayden and Adam Gilchrist was Australia's best for this wicket against India home or abroad. This obliterates the previous record stand of 151 between Tom Veivers and Barry Jarman at Mumbai (Brabourne) in 1964-65. It was also the fourth highest sixth wicket partnership against India (second highest in India).Adam Gilchrist (122) scored his second century in his 15th Test. His other hundred came against Pakistan at Hobart in 1999-00.Gilchrist took only 84 balls to complete his hundred which is the second fastest for Australia. Only Jack Gregory had completed hundred off lesser balls than Gilchrist for Australia. He raced to his hundred against South Africa at Johannesburg in 1921-22 off just 67 balls !Gilchrist's hundred is also the fastest by any batsman against India in all Tests. West Indian Clive Lloyd had taken 85 balls to reach the three figure mark at Bangalore in 1974-75.Gilchrist's hundred is also the fastest by a wicket keeperbatsman in Test chronicles. West Indian Junior Murray had taken 88 balls to reach the three figure mark during his innings of 101* against New Zealand at Wellington in 1994-95.Gilchrist's innings is the highest by an Australian wicket keeper against India beating Ian Healy's 90 at Chennai in 1997-98. His innings was the fifth highest by an Australian wicket keeper in all Tests. However it was the highest on foreign soil. He obliterated Wayne Phillips' 120 against West Indies at Bridgetown in 1983-84.Gilchrist's innings is the fifth highest by any batsman at number seven against India. It is, however, now the highest for Australia against India. He bettered Greg Matthews' 100* at Melbourne in 1985-86.It was also the 12th hundred by a `keeper against India. Just for the record, Zimbabwean Andy Flower holds the record of highest innings as `keeper against India 232 at Nagpur in 2000-01.Harbhajan Singh (4-121) recorded his best figures in an innings. His previous best was 3 for 30 against Pakistan at Delhi in 1999-00.Rahul Sanghvi's economy rate of 6.49 in the first innings was the worst by any Indian bowling at least ten overs in an innings. The previous record was on the name of medium pacer Atul Wassan who conceded 108 runs in 16.4 overs (RpO 6.48) against New Zealand at Auckland in 1989-90. Interestingly the Test record of most expensive figures in a Test innings is held by South Africa's Allan Donald. He conceded 96 runs in his 12 overs (RpO 8.00) against England at The Oval in 1994. The following table lists the worst bowling performances by Indians in Test cricket :RpO Bowler Balls Runs Wkts Vs Inns Test Venue Season
6.49 RL Sanghvi 62 67 2 Aus 1st 1st Mumbai WS 2000-01
6.48 AS Wassan 100 108 4 NZ 1st 3rd Auckland 1989-90
6.00 CG Borde 78 78 2 Aus 1st 3rd Mumbai BS 1959-60
6.00 BS Bedi 66 66 1 WI 2nd 5th Mumbai WS 1974-75
5.86 KD Ghavri 84 82 1 Pak 2nd 5th Chennai 1979-80
5.69 Kapil Dev 232 220 7 Pak 1st 3rd Faisalabad 1982-83
5.62 Kapil Dev 78 73 4 WI 2nd 1st Kingston 1982-83
5.61 Madan Lal 138 129 3 Pak 1st 2nd Karachi NS 1982-83
5.60 ND Hirwani 60 56 0 WI 2nd 2nd Bridgetown 1988-89
Sadagoppan Ramesh (44), when on 35,completed his 1000 runs in Test cricket. He was playing his 13th Test and 25th innings. He became 44th Indian and 358th batsman overall to do so. Ramesh is now the joint third fastest for India in terms of least matches taken to accomplish this feat after Sunil Gavaskar (11), Vinod Kambli (12) and alongwith Vijay Hazare (13). However in terms of least innings played, he is on the fourth place alongwith Vijay Hazare, Sandeep Patil and Mohammad Azharuddin with 25 innings. Indian record is held by Vinod Kambli who took only 14 innings to do so.Kambli is followed by Sunil Gavaskar (21) and Sanjay Manjrekar, Rahul Dravid and Sourav Ganguly (23 each).Tendulkar (65) was making his 26th fifty in his 80th Test. He has now made 50 scores of fifty or more (including his 24 hundreds). He became only the third Indian after Sunil Gavaskar 79 (34 hundreds + 45 fifties) and Dilip Vengsarkar 52 (17 hundreds + 35 fifties) and 22nd batsman in Test history to do so. Incidentally Australia's Allan Border with 90 fifty plus scores (27 hundreds + 63 fifties) holds the world record. Tendulkar top scored twice in the match. It was the third such instance for him. He had made 177 & 74 against England at Nottingham in 1996, 116 & 52 against Australia at Melbourne in 1999-00 and now 76 & 65. Tendulkar went ahead of three other Indians who have done so on two separate occasions each. Now only Sunil Gavaskar with five such instances is ahead of Tendulkar for India.Tendulkar also provided the fourth instance of an Indian batsman doing so against Australia. The others to do so for India against Australia are ML Jaisimha (74 & 101 at Brisbane in 1967-68) and S Abid Ali (78 & 81 at Sydney in 1967-68).Ajit Agarkar suffered the mortification of failing to score in both innings. This was the third such occasion for him. The previous two pair had also been made against Australia - in two consecutive Tests at Melbourne and Sydney in 1999-00. Out of his last eight innings against Australia Agarkar has succeeded in opening the account only once. That was in the first innings of Adelaide Test in 1999-00. Agarkar had then made 19. Since then he has recorded seven consecutive ducks.Agarkar became third Indian after Bhagwat Chandraskehar and Bishan Singh Bedi to bag a pair on three occasions. Chandrasekhar, in fact, has done so on four occasions. He also equalled England's Bobby Peel's record of getting three pairs against Australia.Agarkar now holds the Indian record of aggregating most ducks in a career against Australia. He went ahead of Bhagwat Chandrasekhar who had six ducks to his credit. Just for the record, West Indian Courtney Walsh has aggregated most ducks in a career against Australia - 13 in 60 innings.Agarkar's seven ducks in 14 innings gives him a duck frequency of 50 %. He now joins four other batsmen who have made a duck in every second innings on an average with a Test career of at least 10 innings. The following table has the details:
Batsman % of inns 0s For M Inn Runs NO Ave HS
AB Agarkar 50.00 7 Ind 9 14 118 1 9.08 41*
AG Huckle 50.00 7 Zim 8 14 74 3 6.73 28*
AG Hurst 50.00 10 Aus 12 20 102 3 6.00 26
G Kishenchand 50.00 5 Ind 5 10 89 0 8.90 44
JM Patel 50.00 5 Ind 7 10 25 1 2.78 12
