Statistical highlights
Mohandas Menon
India vs England, 2nd Test, day 5, at Nottingham Test
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** Sachin Tendulkar's 92 was his fifth score in the nineties, which equals
the Indian record for the maximum scores in the nineties in Tests. He equals
the tally of Sunil Gavaskar and fellow teammate Rahul Dravid, who also has
five scores in the nineties.
** Michael Vaughan became the third non-regular bowler to dismiss Tendulkar
after Australian off-spinner Mark Waugh (twice) and Sri Lankan Chandika
Hathurasingha. Waugh dismissed Tendulkar at Adelaide in 1991-92 (lbw for 17)
and at Bombay in 2000-01 (caught by Ponting for 65), while Hathurasingha
took Tendulkar's wicket at Colombo in 1993-94 (caught by A Ranatunga 71).
** Rahul Dravid's 115 was his first century against England in seven matches. His
previous best was the 95 he made at Lord's in 1996, which incidentally was
his debut Test match. Dravid, who scored his 11th Test hundred, now has a
hundred against all Test playing nations, except against Pakistan and
Bangladesh.
** Sourav Ganguly's 99 was the second such score of his career. He was
dismissed for a similar score against Sri Lanka at Nagpur in November 1997.
He thus became the first Indian batsman to be dismissed on 99 on two
separate occasions. Pankaj Roy in 1959, ML Jaisimha in 1960, Ajit Wadekar
in 1967, Rusi Surti in 1968 and Navjot Singh Sidhu in 1994 were the other
Indians to be record a 99 in Tests.
** Ganguly now joins the following seven batsmen who have had the
misfortune of making two scores of 99 during their Test career - Mike Smith
(England), Geoff Boycott (England), Richie Richardson (West Indies), John
Wright (New Zealand), Salim Malik (Pakistan) Mike Atherton (England), Greg
Blewett (Australia),
** Ganguly also became the first Indian and the seventh batsman in Test
cricket history to record a 99 while captaining their respective sides.
England's Norman Yardley in 1947 and Ted Dexter in 1962, Pakistani Majid
Khan in 1973, England's Mike Atherton in 1994, Pakistani Salim Malik in 1995
and New Zealand's Stephen Fleming in 2000 were the other captains to score a
99 in Tests.
** Australian Arthur Chipperfield in 1934 and Englishman Norman Yardley
against South Africa in 1947 were the other two batsmen to make 99 at this
venue.
** The wicket of Ganguly was Stephen Harmison's 200th of his first-class
career in his 64th match.
** Off spinner Michael Vaughan's first three Test wickets are all Mumbai
batsmen - Wasim Jaffer (at Lord's), Tendulkar and Ajit Agarkar.