India vs England Day Four, Third Test: Statistical Review

Nov 29, 2016 at 9:00 PM

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India vs England Day Four, Third Test: Statistical Review

India clinched a comfortable victory on day 4 of the third Test between India and England at Mohali. England began the day with their overnight score of 78/4 and they were bowled out for 236 runs. England put just 103 runs target for India to win the match.

In reply, India reached that target comfortably after losing just 2 wickets (104/2). After this 8-wicket victory, India is now leading this 5-match Test series 2-0.

Brief Scores: England – 283 (Jonny Bairstow 89, Jos Buttler 43, Mohammed Shami 3/63) & 236 (Joe Root 78, Haseeb Hameed 59*, Ravichandran Ashwin 3/81)

India – 417 (Ravindra Jadeja 90, Ravichandran Ashwin 72, Ben Stokes 5/73) & 104/2 (Parthiv Patel 67*, Cheteshwar Pujara 25, Chris Woakes 1/16)

Result – India won by 8 wickets

Here are some statistical highlights of day 4 of the 3rd Test: 

  1. During England’s second innings, England batsman Joe Root hit a fighting half-century as he was dismissed for 78 runs. It was his 11th 50+ Test score in 2016 which is the most no.of 50+ score by any batsman in 2016.

Also, Root became 4th English batsman who made 11 or more than 50+ score in a calendar year. Only once an English batsman has made more than 11 times 50+ score in a calendar year and he was also Joe Root (13 times 50+ score in 2015)

 

  1. English teenage batsman Haseeb Hameed has already faced 640 deliveries in his debutant Test series. Only former Australian cricketer Michael Clarke had faced more deliveries than Hameed on a debutant Test series in India. Clarke had faced 722 deliveries during his debutant Test series in India in 2004/05.

 

  1. England was bowled out for 236 runs in their second innings of this Test. It is the new highest second innings score by a losing team at Mohali Test. The previous record was 235 runs by England in 2001.

 

  1. Indian wicketkeeper-batsman Parthiv Patel hit a great half-century during the 4th innings of this Test. It was 12 years and 44 days gap between Parthiv’s last Test half-century and this half-century. Last time Parthiv hit a Test half-century against Australia on 16th October 2004. It was the second longest gap between two Test half-centuries by an Indian batsman.

Former Indian cricketer Lala Amarnath is holding this longest gap record as he had 12 years and 190 days gap between his two Test half-centuries.

 

  1. At the end of the 4th innings, Indian wicketkeeper-batsman Parthiv Patel remained unbeaten on 67. It was the second-highest 4th innings score by a wicketkeeper opening batsman in Test history. The highest 4th innings score by a wicketkeeper opening batsman in Test history was 71 by Pakistan wicketkeeper opening batsman Kamran Akmal (against South Africa at Lahore in 2007).

 

  1. In this Test, Indian wicketkeeper-batsman Parthiv Patel scored total 109 runs (42 runs in the 1st innings and 67* in the second innings). It was the highest Test aggregate score by an Indian wicketkeeper-batsman against England on a winning cause.

Also, Parthiv’s this 109-runs was the 5th highest Test aggregate score by an Indian wicketkeeper-batsman against England on the Indian soil.

 

  1. India won this Test match by 8 wickets. It was the third time in Test history where India won by 8 wickets against England and all of them in India.

 

  1. This defeat was England’s 15th consecutive winless toss-victory Test on the Indian soil. Last time England won a Test match on the Indian soil after winning a toss was in 1977 at Chennai.

 

  1. With this victory, India has clinched two consecutive Test victories against England. Before this Test, India had also claimed a victory in the previous Test at Vishakhapatnam. Before this two consecutive Test victories, last time India had clinched two consecutive Test victories against England in 1993 and that was in India.

 

10. This victory was India’s 16th consecutive undefeated Test. It was India’s second longest unbeaten Test sequence. India’s longest unbeaten Test sequence was for 17 matches between 1985 and 1987.

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