Statistical highlights (5th day) at Ahmedabad
by Mohandas Menon
-- SS Das (58, on 33) became the 46th Indian and the 370th batsman in Test
history to reach 1000 career runs. He now has 1025 runs (avg. 39.42) in 15
matches and 28 innings.
-- Das, incidentally became the 13th Indian to score over 1000 runs as an
opener. The last one before him was his former teammate Sadagopan Ramesh
earlier this year against Australia. Das, needing just 28 innings to reach
this landmark became the joint fourth quickest among Indian openers. Sunil
Gavaskar and Ravi Shastri needed just 20 innings, while Ramesh 25. Das
emulated ML Jaisimha, who also needed 28 innings for his 1000 runs as an
opener way back in 1964.
-- Deep Dasgupta's 60 was the highest score made by an Indian wicket-keeper
at this venue. The only other higher score by a keeper at this venue was the
98 by West Indian Jeff Dujon in November 1983.
-- With Tendulkar failing to make a substantial score in the second innings,
once again increased the disparity between his first and second innings
batting averages. At the end of this Test match he has 5276 runs at an
average of 64.34 in the first innings, as against an average of 46.66 while
scoring 2053 runs in the second - a difference of 17.68 runs.
-- Tendulkar's 26 was now his lowest score against England at home. His
previous lowest was the 50 he made at Calcutta in January 1993.
-- The opening partnership of 119 runs between Das and Dasgupta was the
first for India over 100 runs against England since the 109 between Manoj
Prabhakar and Navjot Sidhu at Bombay in February 1993.
-- The above partnership was the only second against England by any team in
the last 41 matches. During this period from June 1998 only one other
century partnership for the opening wicket was achieved against England.
This was the 158 put on by Australians Matthew Hayden and Justin Langer at
the Oval in August this year. The only other century partnership one could
trace before this one was the 167 between West Indians Clayton Lambert and
Philo Wallace at St John's in March 1998.
-- This drawn encounter was England's first after being involved in 12 Test
matches in a row that had a result. During this period England had won five
and lost seven. The last drawn Test was the one at Faisalabad last December.
-- Meanwhile for India it was its third drawn match in the last 20 matches
since December 1999. The other drawn matches in which India were involved
were the Nagpur Test against Zimbabwe in November 2000 and the recent Test
at Port Elizabeth last month. During this period India won seven matches and
lost ten.
-- This match was also England's first without defeat in India. Prior to
this England had lost its last four Test matches in India from January 1993.
The last drawn Test for England in India was the Kanpur Test in February
1985.
Also read: Match Report
England's tour of India : Complete coverage