Statistical highlights (2nd day) at Mohali

-- Anil Kumble's 37 is now the second highest score made by an Indian 'night-watchman' against England. The highest, however, still remains the 48 made by Amar Singh Ladha in the second innings at Chepauk, Madras, way back in February 1934.

Amar Singh, who went in at number 11 in the first innings, was sent in as a night-watchman (at no 4) on the third day. Overnight he was 18 not out, and went on to add 30 more runs before he was dismissed.

For the record, the previous highest score made by any Indian night-watchman before Kumble was the 43 by Murali Kartik, against Bangladesh at Dhaka in November 2000.

-- Deep Dasgupta (100) became the sixth Indian wicket-keeper to register a Test hundred. It was the ninth such hundred for India. Budhi Kunderan (192 & 100), Farokh Engineer (109 & 121) and Syed Kirmani (101* & 102) have made two hundreds each, while Vijay Manjrekar (118), who kept wickets against West Indies at Kingston in 1953, and Nayan Mongia (152), the last Indian keeper before Dasgupta, are the others to do so once.

-- Dasgupta's hundred was also the 20th scored by a keeper-batsman against England. Dasgupta was the 18th batsman to do so, with India's Budhi Kunderan and Australian Ian Healy being the only ones to do so on two separate occasions against England. Just for the record, Kunderan's 192 at the Corporation stadium, Madras in January 1964 still remains the highest ever score by a keeper-batsman against England.

-- Incidentally, the last wicket-keeper before Dasgupta to score a hundred against England, while opening the batting was Sri Lankan left-hander Amal Silva who made 102 not out at Lord's in August 1984. Interestingly, the last keeper to score a Test hundred anywhere as an opener was India's Nayan Mongia, when he scored 152 against Australia at Delhi in 1996.

-- The hundred was Dasgupta's second in his first-class career in 19 matches. Incidentally, he had the distinction of registering the first one on his first-class debut, when he made 120 against Baroda at Calcutta in February 1999.

-- Sachin Tendulkar (31*, when on 25) became the ninth Indian and the 89th overall to aggregate 1000 runs against England. Tendulkar is appearing in his 10th match and 15th innings against England.

-- Tendulkar's batting average of 83.83 runs per innings, is currently the second best among the 89 batsmen who have over 1000 runs against England. The number one position remains with the great Don Bradman, who has a batting average of 89.79 in 37 matches against England.
Following Tendulkar is West Indian George Headley, who in 16 matches has a batting average of 71.23 runs per innings.

-- Rahul Dravid, during his unbeaten 78, became the highest run-scorer at this ground obliterating the previous record aggregate of 252 runs by West Indian Jimmy Adams. Dravid now has 257 runs.

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