Important Statistical Review: India vs New Zealand 3-match Test series 1

India outclassed New Zealand in the recently ended 3-match Test series as India won the Test series by 3-0. Though New Zealand had put some tough fights in the several sessions of the Test series, India never went out of control position at all. In the every places, India dominated over the visitors.

Now we are showing some several important stats in the Test series. These are at the following:

A) Top 5 runs batsmen in this Test series

Player Team Matches Innings Runs Average HS 100s 50s
Cheteshwar Pujara India 3 6 373 74.60 101* 1 3
Ajinkya Rahane India 3 6 347 69.40 188 1 1
Virat Kohli India 3 6 309 51.50 211 1 0
Rohit Sharma India 3 5 238 79.33 82 0 3
Luke Ronchi New Zealand 3 6 200 33.33 80 0 1

(Note: HS – Highest Score in an innings)

 

B) Top 5 runs bowlers in this Test series

Player Team Matches Innings Wickets Average BBI BBM 5wkts 10wkts
Ravichandran Ashwin India 3 6 27 17.77 7/59 13/140 3 2
Ravindra Jadeja India 3 6 14 24.07 5/73 6/131 1 0
Trent Boult New Zealand 3 6 10 33.30 3/38 5/84 0 0
Mitchell Santner New Zealand 3 6 10 52.40 3/60 5/173 0 0
Mohammed Shami India 3 6 8 30.37 3/46 6/116 0 0

(Note: BBI – Best bowling in an innings; BBM – Best bowling in a match; 5wkts – no.of 5-wicket haul in an innings; 10wkts – no.of 10-wicket haul in a match)

 

C) Test Records of India vs New Zealand which were broken in this Test series

  1. Largest Victories – India’s victory by 321 runs against New Zealand in the 3rd and final Test of the series at Indore was the largest victory (by runs) for a team in the Test history between India vs New Zealand. The previous best was by 272 runs on the behalf of India at Auckland in 1968.

 

  1. Best bowling figure in a Test match – Indian off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin’s 13/140 (41.1-7-140-13) is the new best bowling figure in a Test match between India vs New Zealand. Ashwin achieved this figure in the 3rd and final Test at Indore. The previous best bowling figure in a Test match between these two teams were 12/85 by Ravichandran Ashwin at Hyderabad (Deccan) in 2012.

 

  1. Most no. of 5-wicket haul in an innings – Indian off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin became the most no. of 5-wicket haul bowler in a Test innings between India vs New Zealand. Ashwin has claimed 6 times 5-wicket haul against New Zealand in a Test innings (3 times in this Test series).

 

  1. Most no. of 10-wicket haul in a match – In the India vs New Zealand Test clash history, Indian off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin became the most no. of 10-wicket haul bowler in a Test match. Surpassing former New Zealand pacer Richard Hadlee (2 times 10-wicket haul in the Test matches between India and New Zealand) in this contest, Ashwin has taken 3 times 10-wicket haul (2 times in this Test series).

 

  1. Highest 4th wicket partnership – Indian batsmen Virat Kohli and Ajinkya Rahane had put a brilliant 365-runs partnership for the 4th wicket during India’s first innings in the 3rd Test at Indore. It was the highest 4th wicket partnership in the Test match between India and New Zealand. The previous best (4th wicket) was for 281 runs between Sachin Tendulkar and Sourav Ganguly (India) at Ahmedabad in 1999.

 

D) Other important achievements

  1. Indian skipper Virat Kohli became the first Indian captain to score more than one double-century in Test career. In the 3rd Test at Indore, Kohli scored his second Test double-century as captain. His first Test double-century was also in this calendar year in the previous Test series against West Indies at North Sound.

 

  1. Indian off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin won Man of the Series at the end of this Test series which was his 7th in his Test career. Out of 7 Man of the Series in Test career, 5 are in India which is the most in India.

 

  1. Indian off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin took total 27 wickets in the 3-match Test series which is the second most no.of wicket taken by an Indian bowler in a 3-match Test series. The best performance was by Harbhajan Singh who had taken 32 wickets in the 3-match home Test series against Australia in 2001.

 

  1. Ashwin claimed twice 10-wicket haul in this Test series which was the jointly best by an Indian bowler in a Tests series. Harbhajan Singh was the first Indian bowler to achieve this feat and that was in the 3-match home Test series against Australia in 2001.

 

  1. Ashwin also became India’s 2nd most no. of 10-wicket haul bowler in Test as Ashwin has achieved 6 times this feat. Also claiming the 5 times 10-wicket haul on the Indian soil, Ashwin became the 2nd most no. of 10-wicket haul bowler in Test on the Indian soil. In the both occasions former Indian leg-spinner Anil Kumble is leading (8 times 10-wicket haul in Test at overall venue and 7 of them in India)

 

  1. Indian batsmen Virat Kohli and Ajinkya Rahane’s 365-runs partnership for the fourth wicket was India’s 5th highest Test partnership, highest 4th wicket Test partnership and 2nd highest Test partnership against New Zealand for any wicket.

 

  1. India’s victory by 321 runs against New Zealand in the 3rd and final Test at Indore was India’s 2nd largest Test victory (by runs). India’s largest Test victory (by runs) was by 337 runs against South Africa at Delhi in 2015.

 

E) Some achievements yet not get during India vs New Zealand Test match

  1. Still there are no New Zealand wicketkeeper-batsman hit a six on the Indian soil.

 

  1. Still there are no wicketkeeper-batsman hit a Test century on the Indian soil from the both sides. In the India vs New Zealand Test match history in India, the highest individual score by an Indian wicketkeeper-batsman was 98 by MS Dhoni at Nagpur in 2010 while the highest individual score by a New Zealand wicketkeeper-batsman was 79 by Ian Smith at Hyderabad (Deccan) in 1988.

Actually there are no Indian wicketkeeper-batsman hit a Test century against New Zealand (in overall venue) while 3 New Zealand wicketkeeper-batsmen have scored Test centuries against India and all were in New Zealand.

 

  1. Still there are no New Zealand spinner able to take 10-wicket haul in a Test match against India (in overall venue). The best bowling performance by a New Zealand spinner in a Test match against India was 53-16-100-9 by Hedley Howarth at Nagpur in 1969.