Day 3: India v New Zealand, Statistical highlights

Devang Gandhi's innings (75 runs)is the ninth highest by an Indian on his first appearance against NewZealand.Indian record is held by Polly Umrigar who scored 223 at Hyderabad in 1955-56

Rajneesh Gupta

13-Oct-1999

Devang Gandhi's innings (75 runs)is the ninth highest by an Indian on his first appearance against NewZealand.Indian record is held by Polly Umrigar who scored 223 at Hyderabad in 1955-56.

The 137 run partnership between Gandhi and Ramesh is India's third highest for opening wicket against NewZealand after the world record 413 run partnership (between Vinoo Mankad and Pankaj Roy) at Chennai in 1955-56 and unbroken 149 run partnership at Auckland in 1989-90

Rahul Dravid (87*) scored his first fifty against NewZealand in his third Test.He also has scored two centuries against NewZealanders.Dravid has now scored 17 fifties in 30 Tests.

Sachin Tendulkar (54*) scored his fourth fifty in 10th Test against NewZealand,22nd in his 69th Test and 5th in 18th Test as captain.

Tendulkar's innings (54 not out) is also his best against NewZealand on home soil.This obliterates his previous best of 52* at Chennai in 1995-96.

Tendulkar could not add to his total when at 11 for 59 minutes (he faced 34 dot balls during this period).He narrowly missed the 'opportunity' of becoming the fourth Indian to have not added to their score for one hour (60 minutes).Sunil Gavaskar has done so twice.

The details :

An hour without adding to score by Indian batsmen

Mins    Batsmen (score)          Opponents      Venue            Season

89 Ravi Shastri (23) South Africa Johannesburg 1992-93 66 Sunil Gavaskar (52) SriLanka Colombo PSS 1985-86 65 Nawab of Pataudi,jr.(5) England Mumbai 1972-73 60 Sunil Gavaskar (51) SriLanka Colombo SSC 1985-86

For only the fifth time in its Test history,India managed to score 200 plus runs in second innings of a Test after being bowled out for a total below 100 in the first.

The details :

Scores          Opponents         Venue         Season      Result

88 & 5-463d NewZealand Mumbai 1964-65 drawn 92 & 277 England Birmingham 1967 lost 96 & 4-318 England Lord's 1979 drawn 75 & 327 WestIndies Delhi 1987-88 lost

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