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.