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