India vs England Day 1 Second Test: Statistical Review 1
India vs England - Day 1 (2nd Test)

On the opening day of the second Test between India and England at the newest Test venue Visakhapatnam, India ended on the ascendancy. After winning the toss, India decided to bat first. At the stumps on day 1, India is 317/4.

Brief Scores: India – 317/4 (Virat Kohli 151*, Cheteshwar Pujara 119, James Anderson 3/44)

Here are some statistical highlights of day 1 of the 2nd Test: 

  1. Dr Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy ACA-VDCA Cricket Stadium at Visakhapatnam makes debut in Test cricket with this Test match. This stadium becomes India’s 24th Test cricket venue.

 

  1. Indian cricketer Jayant Yadav made his Test debut from this Test. Yadav became 8th Indian cricketer to make ODI and Test debut at the same ground. He had also made his ODI debut on this ground last month against New Zealand on 29th October.

 

  1. In this Test, England is playing with 7 left-handed batsmen. It is the most no.of left-handed batsmen for a Test team against India.

 

  1. Cheteshwar Pujara scored another brilliant century on the day 1 of this Test. He scored 119 runs before getting out. Pujara became only Indian batsman to score a century in a home ground’s inaugural Test for thrice. Before this, Pujara had also scored centuries at Indore (Holkar Cricket Stadium) and Rajkot’s (Saurashtra Cricket Association Stadium) inaugural Tests.

 

  1. Indian skipper Virat Kohli also scored a brilliant Test century on an opening day. It was his 7th Test century as an Indian captain. With this Test century, Kohli now is the joint third on the list of Indian captains with most century along with Sachin Tendulkar (7 Test centuries as Indian captain). The other top two Indian captains in this list are Sunil Gavaskar (11 Test centuries as captain) and Mohammad Azharuddin (9 Test centuries as captain).

 

  1. On day 1, Indian batsmen Cheteshwar Pujara and Virat Kohli put an impressive 226 runs partnership for the 3rd wicket. It was India’s third highest 3rd wicket Test partnership against England. India’s other top two highest 3rd wicket Test partnership against England are 316 between Gundappa Viswanath and Yashpal Sharma (at Chennai in 1982) and 255 between Sourav Ganguly and Sachin Tendulkar (at Nottingham in 1996).