Stats of Indore Test (India Vs New Zealand, 3rd Match):-

Indian Cricket Team With "Gada" of ICC's No. 1 Test Side

·    ·       Indore’s Holkar Stadium became the 22ndTest venue in India. Last venue was added in 2010, Uppal, Hyderabad.

·        Kohli won 7^th consecutive toss at home.

·        Rahane completed his 2000 runs in Tests in his 29^th match (49^th innings), 36^th Indian to do so.

·       Kohli became the 1^st man to hit century of the 3 match Test series, Rahane and Pujara later on joined him.

·        It was the highest score of Kohli in Tests (211), previous highest was 200 against Windies, it was also 2^nd double ton of his career.

·        It was Rahane’s highest score (188) in Tests, eclipsing 147 vs  Australia at Melbourne in 2014, 8^th century of his career.

·        Kohli has become 1^st Indian Test captain to hit 2 double centuries during captaincy.

·        It was the 3^rd highest score overall by Indian captain in Tests, 224 (MS Dhoni), 217 (Sachin). It was also the 2^nd highest score by Indian captain against Kiwis, 1^st highest was Sachin’s 217.

5th Highest Partnership Between Rahane and Kohli For India

     Stand of 365 between Rahane and Kohli was India’s 6^th 350+ run partnership in Tests, highest in Tests for any wicket is 413 runs between Vinoo Mankad and Pankaj Roy.

·        365 runs stand has become the highest for India for fourth wicket.

·        Ravi Ashwin did his career best performance taking 7 wickets for 59 in an innings and 13 wickets for 140 runs in the match.

·        Ashwin took his 21^st five-fers in the 39 Tests and it was his 6^th ten-wicket hauls in the same number of Tests.

·        Ashwin won the 7^th Man of the Series award, no other player for India has done this before. He has received 7 Man of the Series award in his last 8 series.

10 Wicket-Hauls For Ashwin

·        Ashwin has now 4 consecutive Man of the Series awards, only Imran Khan and Malcom Marshall have the same record.

·        It was his 2^nd ten-fers in this series, he is the second Indian to do so after Harbhajan Singh, who did this in 2000-01 against Australia.

·        India’s victory of 321 against Kiwis in lastTest was the 2^nd largest win in terms of runs, 339 against RSA was the biggest one for them.

·        It was India’s fourth clean sweep in a Test series with 3 or more matches, previous ones are against England in 1992-93 (3-0), Sri Lanka in 1992-93 (3-0) and Australia in 2012-13 (4-0).

·        Guptill and Latham were involved in a stand of 118 for the 1^st wicket, it was first hundred runs stand of the series for New Zealand openers.

·        Ashwin has become the highest wicket-taker this year with 44 wickets in 13 innings at an average of 19.86.

·        Ashwin got Williamson out in all 4 innings he played on this tour.

Virat Kohli Holding the Series' Trophy

Stats and Records of 250th Home Test, which Everybody Should Know

Kohli and Ashwin after winning 250th test of  home.

·          After winning the game in Kolkata, series is now at 2-0 and that’s how India has registered 3^rd consecutive series win against New Zealand in India.

·          India has reached at the top of ICC test rankings for the forth time in test history, India is the only test team to become no. 1 team for four times.

·          It was the 250^th test match for India on home soil and hosts won 89 among them. India has become the 3^rd team to play 250 tests at home after England (501) and Australia (404).

·          This was only the 2^nd test Kane Willaimson (53 tests) has missed since making his debut against India at Sardar Patel Stadium in November 2010. The only other test he missed was against West Indies in December 2013.

·          India is still to repeat its playing XI under Virat Kohli’s captaincy.

·          54* was Wriddhiman Saha’s maiden test fifty in a home test.

·          Kohli has become the 4^th most successful captain of India who hasn’t lost any game from last 12 games eclipsing Dhoni (11) and behind to S Gavaskar (18), Kapil Dev (17), Mohd Azharuddin (14), it was the 9^th win for Kohli in 16 matches eclipsing Dravid (8).

·          It was the 1^st Man of the Match for Saha, he has become the 4^th wicket keeper of India to get this reward after Ajay Ratra (1), Nayan Mongia (1) and Dhoni (2).

·         It is the 1^st time in Indian test history, when India hasn’t lost any game at home from last 12 matches, India won 11 out of it.

·          15 batsmen got out LBW at Eden Garden, most in India beating the previous record of 13 ( versus South Africa in 1996 at Ahemadabad).

·          26 wickets were taken by the seamers at eden garden, it was the 9^th time in India when fast bowlers took 26 or more wickets.

·          With an average of 26.86 Guptil has become the 3^rd worst opener of world cricket ever, among those 101 openers who made more than 1500 runs.

·          Ashwin reached to the mark of 1500 tests runs, fastest to take over 200 wickets with 1500 runs in 38^th test match. Ian botham did this in 41 tests.

·          It was the 6^th consecutive toss win for Kohli, he has won all the toss in home tests.

·          Bhuvaneshwar kumar took 4^th five wicket haul of his career in Tests and it was the 1^st five-fer in a home Tests for him.

Bhuvi took first five-fer at home.

Ravindra Jadeja has dismissed Luke Ronchi for the 4^th time in all the innings of the tour.

·          India became the 1^st team in world cricket to win its 250^th overall test and 250^th match at home.

·          Saha has become the 1^st Indian wicket keeper to make two unbeaten half centuries in a test and 2^nd in world cricket, Garry Alexander (63* & 87*) was the only wicket keeper to achieve the feat before.

First Man of the Match for Wriddhiman Saha.

Stats and Records of 500th Test Match of India

    All time Indian test captains were honoured by BCCI, before the start of 500th test 
    match.

            Indian players singing their national anthem, first time in test cricket history.

After the dominating performance by hosts in their 500th test match, many records were made in the historical test match.Defeating Kiwis in the match by 197 runs was the 3rd largest win by runs for India against Black Caps in cricket and 2nd at Green Park. 272 runs defeat at Auckland in 1968 was the biggest one, following the 216 runs win in 1976 at Chennai.
After this victory Virat Kohli has become the 4th Indian captain to win 11 successive tests without any defeat, equals MS Dhoni and progressing to the record of S Gavaskar (18 tests), Kapil Dev (17 tests), Mohd Azharuddin (14 tests). Under the Virat’s captaincy his team hasn’t loss any game from last 15 months, anywhere and at home also India has been unbeaten from previous 12 tests since December 2012, where India had lost the game against England in Kolkata by 7 wickets.

             Ashwin, after taking his 200th wicket. Became 2nd fastest to reach this mark 
             in world test cricket and fastest in India.
Ravi Ashwin has become the fastest not only Indian but also an Asian bowler to take 200 wickets in test cricket reaching to the mark in his 37th test match, eclipsing the Pakistani left arm seamer Waqar Younis record of 38 test matches, he is now the 2nd quickest 200 wickets taker all over the world following Clarie Grimmet (36 tests) of Australia. He is 9th in the list of highest wicket taker for his country, current Indian coach Anil Kumble (619 wickets) is leading the list.
This was the 5th time when Ashwin has taken 10 wickets in a test match, joint second most by an Indian bowler, Harbhajan Singh and both are following the leg spinner Kumble who achieved it 8 times for his team, M Muralitharan is far ahead of all, he has done this 22 times in his career leading the list of world test cricket, Ashwin is now the 3rd in overall test cricket list to take ten wickets for 5 times in 37 matches or fewer, George Lohmann (16 tests), Sydney Barnes (24 tests) and Clarie Grimmet (35 tests) leading the table in this terms and also it was the 19th time when Ashwin took 5 wickets in an innings, only 2 bowlers before him could achieve it within 37 tests, Sydney Barnes (24 times in 27 tests), Clarie Grimmet (21 times in 37 tests).
New Zealand all-rounder, Mitchell Santner hit his 1st fifty in International test cricket in the match and it was the 2nd one for Luke Ronchi who made the 2nd highest score (80) of his test career, which was the top score in the match, his highest was 88 on his debut against England. Santner has also become the 6th Kiwi player to hit more than 100 runs with 5 wicket hauls in a match. Both these players had 102 runs stand in 2nd innings of the game, which was the highest fifth wicket association for New Zealand at Kanpur in tests.
This Historical test has produced 1193 runs, not even a single century was being scored in the whole match, which was the 4th highest runs score in the history of world cricket without an individual hundred, 1272 runs was the highest between South Africa and England at Durban in 1927-28. 10 fifties were scored in the match which was the third highest without any ton, 13 fifties were the most, which were scored in that same match of SA vs England and 11 from India and Australia match in Mumbai in 1964-65.
10 Kiwi Batsmen have been dismissed LBW by the Indian bowlers, which has now become an Indian record to dismiss most no. of batsmen LBW in a match, beating 9 each against Australia in 2001 at Kolkata and Bangladesh in 2004 at Dhaka.

                    Sir Jadeja's "Sword Celebration", after scoring 2nd fifty of his test career.
Ravindra Jadeja was nominated as the Man of the Match for the 3rd time in his career for his all round performance of scoring 92 runs and picking 6 very crucial wickets. 1st time in his test career he scored over 50 runs and 5 wicket hauls in an innings in a single match.

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