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ToggleWith the draw against Sri Lanka at Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi, India’s longest home test season came to an end which started against New Zealand in September 2016 at Kanpur where India went on to play 16 matches in the entire season. India won 11 matches of those 16 and lost only 1 game which came against Australia while other 4 were drawn. India began their dominance in home with a whitewash against New Zealand(3-0) followed by a (4-0) victory against England, one-off test match win against Bangladesh at Hyderabad, A (2-1) series victory against Australia and ended with a (1-0) against Sri Lanka this December. From Ashwin-Jadeja’s five-fors to Virat Kohli’s double centuries, We saw several records achieved by Indian team and the players in the long home season.
Let us look at the numbers of Indian team and players from the home season 2016-17:
Series results:
Played – 5
Won – 5
Match results:
Matches Played – 16
Won – 11
Lost – 1
Draw – 4
Top 5 run scorers:
Virat Kohli – 1862
Cheteshwar Pujara – 1605
Murali Vijay – 1063
KL Rahul – 794
Ajinkya Rahane – 735
Top 5 wicket takers:
Ravichandran Ashwin – 94
Ravindra Jadeja – 81
Umesh Yadav – 35
Mohammed Shami – 27
Bhuvneshwar Kumar – 18
Top 5 highest individual scores:
Karun Nair – 303* vs Eng, Chennai, 2016
Virat Kohli – 243 vs SL, Delhi, 2017
Virat Kohli – 235 vs Eng, Mumbai, 2016
Virat Kohli – 213 vs SL, Nagpur, 2017
Virat Kohli – 211 vs NZ, Indore, 2016
Top 5 best bowling figures:
Ravindra Jadeja – 7/48 vs Eng, Chennai, 2016
Ravichandran Ashwin – 7/59 vs NZ, Indore, 2016
Ravichandran Ashwin – 6/41 vs AUS, Bangalore, 2017
Ravichandran Ashwin – 6/55 vs Eng, Mumbai, 2016
Ravindra Jadeja – 6/63 vs Aus, Bangalore, 2017
Top 5 batsmen with most centuries:
Virat Kohli – 7
Cheteshwar Pujara – 5
Murali Vijay – 5
Wriddhiman Saha – 2
Karun Nair/Ajinkya Rahane/Rohit Sharma/KL Rahul/Jayant Yadav – 1
Top 5 batsmen with most fifties:
Cheteshwar Pujara – 9
KL Rahul – 7
Ravindra Jadeja – 6
Rohit Sharma – 5
Ravichandran Ashwin – 4
Top 5 batsmen with most sixes:
Ravindra Jadeja – 22
Murali Vijay – 11
Ajinkya Rahane – 8
Rohit Sharma – 8
Wriddhiman Saha – 7
Top 5 batsmen with most fours:
Virat Kohli – 193
Cheteshwar Pujara – 192
Murali Vijay – 110
KL Rahul – 95
Ajinkya Rahane – 82
Top 5 batsmen with highest averages(Min 400 runs):
Rohit Sharma – 113.75
Virat Kohli – 80.95
Cheteshwar Pujara – 61.73
KL Rahul – 46.70
Murali Vijay – 44.29
Bowlers with most five-fors:
Ravichandran Ashwin – 7
Ravindra Jadeja – 4
Bhuvneshwar Kumar – 1
Top 5 bowlers with most maidens:
Ravindra Jadeja – 218
Ravichandran Ashwin – 165
Umesh Yadav – 71
Mohammed Shami – 53
Ishant Sharma – 43
Top 5 bowlers with best economy rate(Min 5 matches played):
Ravindra Jadeja – 2.25
Ishant Sharma – 2.78
Bhuvneshwar Kumar – 2.81
Ravichandran Ashwin – 2.82
Mohammed Shami – 2.99
Top 5 batsmen with most runs in a series:
Virat Kohli – 655 vs England, 2016
Virat Kohli – 610 vs Sri Lanka, 2017
Cheteshwar Pujara – 405 vs Australia, 2017
Cheteshwar Pujara – 401 vs England, 2016
KL Rahul – 393 vs Australia, 2017
Top 5 bowlers with most wickets in a series:
Ravichandran Ashwin – 28 vs England
Ravichandran Ashwin – 27 vs New Zealand
Ravindra Jadeja – 26 vs England
Ravindra Jadeja – 25 vs Australia
Ravichandran Ashwin – 21 vs Australia
Top 5 players with most catches(Non-wicket keeper):
Ajinkya Rahane – 19
Virat Kohli – 15
Murali Vijay – 13
Ravindra Jadeja – 11
Cheteshwar Pujara – 9
Players with most Man of the match awards:
Virat Kohli – 5
Ravindra Jadeja – 3
Ravichandran Ashwin – 1
Karun Nair – 1
Wriddhiman Saha – 1
Bhuvneshwar Kumar – 1
Cheteshwar Pujara – 1
KL Rahul – 1
Man of the series winners:
Ravichandran Ashwin vs New Zealand, 2016
Virat Kohli vs England, 2016
Ravindra Jadeja vs Australia, 2017
Virat Kohli vs Sri Lanka, 2017
Top 5 Highest team totals:
759/7d vs England, Chennai, 2016
687/6d vs Bangladesh, Hyderabad, 2017
631/10 vs England, Mumbai, 2016
610/6d vs Sri Lanka, Nagpur, 2017
603/9d vs Australia, Ranchi, 2017
Top 5 highest win margins:
Innings & 239 runs vs Sri Lanka, Nagpur, 2017
Innings & 75 runs vs England, Chennai, 2016
Innings & 36 runs vs England, Mumbai, 2016
321 runs vs New Zealand, Indore, 2016
246 runs vs England, Vishakapatnam, 2016
Some of key records by Indian team and players achieved in India’s Test Home Season 2016-17:
- Ravichandran Ashwin became quickest Indian to reach 200 test wickets in just 37 matches. He picked up his 200th scalp against New Zealand at Kanpur.
- Ravichandran Ashwin became quickest bowler to reach 250 test wickets in just 45 matches. He picked up his 250th scalp against Bangladesh at Hyderabad.
- Ravichandran Ashwin became quickest bowler to reach 300 test wickets in just 54 matches. He picked up his 300th scalp against Sri Lanka at Nagpur.
- Karun Nair became 2nd Indian batsman after Virender Sehwag to hit a triple century in test cricket when he scored 303* against England at Chennai
- India also recorded their highest team total at Chennai against England with the help of 199 from KL Rahul and a mammoth 303* from Karun Nair
- Virat Kohli became first ever Indian captain to hit 2 double centuries
- Virat Kohli became first ever captain to hit 6 double centuries in Test cricket.
- Indian cricket team leveled Australia’s streak of 9 consecutive test series victories.