Incredible highs for Windies, Taylor and Benn

Stats highlights from the remarkable Test in Kingston, which West Indies won by an innings and 23 runs to take a 1-0 lead in the four-Test series

S Rajesh

08-Feb-2009

Stats highlights from the remarkable Test in Kingston, which West Indies won by an innings and 23 runs to take a 1-0 lead in the four-Test series.

West Indies celebrate the wicket of Andrew Strauss during England's capitulation in Kingston © AFP

West Indies' victory at Sabina Park was only their fifth by an innings since 2000, but their first against a team other than Bangladesh and Zimbabwe in almost nine years. In June 2000, they had beaten England - again - by an innings and 93 runs at Edgbaston, in a match where Courtney Walsh took 8 for 58. Since that game, West Indies have played 83 Tests against the top seven teams, winning only nine.

For England, it was their first innings defeat in more than two years. The last time they had suffered such a fate was in the Boxing Day Test of 2006, when Australia beat them by an innings and 99 runs.

England's 51 is their third-lowest total in Tests, and their second-lowest against West Indies. They lasted just 33.2 overs, which is their fourth-lowest against West Indies. It's also the second-lowest score by any team against West Indies in Tests, after England's 46 in Port of Spain in 1994.

Jerome Taylor conceded just 11 runs for his five-for, which makes it the second-most economical five-wicket haul by a West Indian bowler, after Jermaine Lawson's 6 for 3 against Bangladesh in Dhaka in 2002. Among bowlers from all teams, seven have conceded fewer than 11 runs for a five-wicket haul. And only four West Indian bowlers have bowled less than nine overs for a five-wicket haul.

Taylor won his second Man-of-the-Match award in Tests, but his first for his bowling performance. His only previous such prize came two Tests ago in December last year, for his 106 against New Zealand in Dunedin.

By taking eight wickets in the match, Sulieman Benn did something that hadn't been achieved by a West Indian slow bowler for 34 years: the last Caribbean spinner to take eight or more in a match was Lance Gibbs, who took 9 for 143 against India in Mumbai in 1975. (Click here for the full list.)

Apart from Andrew Flintoff, none of England's batsmen topped reached 10, which is only the fifth time that just one England batsman has reached double digits in a completed innings. The previous two such instances have also been against West Indies: in 1994, Alec Stewart scored 18 out of a total of 46, while David Steele scored 20 out of 71 at Old Trafford in 1976.

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S Rajesh is stats editor of Cricinfo