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.