Stats Highlights: Ind vs Eng, First Test, Day 3
First Published : 17 Nov 2012, 21:13
Last Modified : 17 Nov 2012, 21:16
Mumbai, Nov 17: After a forgettable first innings batting display, England pulled up their socks in their second at bat. Their charge was led by skipper Alastair Cook, who remained unbeaten on a well-compiled 74 at stumps on Day 3. Cook now has an outstanding batting average of 114.25 while leading his country.
Apart from him, even Pragyan Ojha, one half of India’s lethal spin twins, had an outstanding outing today. The left-arm spinner got his fourth fiver in Test as he ran through the England line-up in their first innings. Here are these some more interesting stats from a very engaging day of Test cricket at Motera:
It was the sixth time that India enforced follow-on on England. Out of the previous five occasions India won three and drew two Tests. The last such occasion was at Leeds in 2002. India won that Test by an innings and 46 runs.
The last time India enforced the follow-on on England in India was way back in 1992-93 at Chennai. They went on win the Test by an innings and 22 runs.
Since 2000, India have enforced the follow-on on the opponents on 5 occasions at home. They have won 4 and drawn one.
India after enforcing the follow-on at home (since 2000):
|
Vs |
Season |
Venue |
Result |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Zim |
2000-01 |
Nagpur |
Drawn |
|
WI |
2002-03 |
Mumbai WS |
Ind - Inns & 112 runs |
|
SL |
2009-10 |
Kanpur |
Ind - Inns & 144 runs |
|
WI |
2011-12 |
Kolkata |
Ind - Inns & 15 runs |
|
NZ |
2012 |
Hyderabad |
Ind - Inns & 115 runs |
India got a first innings lead of 330 runs – the second biggest lead they have ever got against England, after the 355-run lead at Leeds in 2002. Incidentally, India’s previous biggest lead against England on home soil was 274 runs at Chennai in 1992-93.
Biggest first innings leads for India vs England:
|
Lead |
Venue |
Season |
Result |
|---|---|---|---|
|
355 |
Leeds |
2002 |
Ind - Inns & 46 runs |
|
330 |
Ahmedabad |
2012 |
To be seen |
|
319 |
The Oval |
2007 |
Drawn |
|
283 |
Nottingham |
2007 |
Ind- 7 wickets |
|
274 |
Chennai |
1992-93 |
Ind- Inns & 22 runs |
|
270 |
Mumbai WS |
1984-85 |
Ind- 8 wickets |
|
266 |
The Oval |
1990 |
Drawn |
Pragyan Ojha (5/45) claimed his fourth five-wicket haul in Test cricket – his first against England.
Ojha is the first Indian left-arm spinner to bag a five-wicket haul against England since Dilip Doshi, who returned the figures of 6/102 at Manchester in 1982.
In the 6 Tests Ojha and Ashwin have played together, the two have taken 81 wickets out of the 110 opposition wickets to fall – a percentage of 73.64!
In 3 Tests as captain, Alastair Cook has aggregated 457 runs at an average of 114.25 with 2 hundreds and one fifty. His scores as captain – 173 & 39 and 21 & 109* (v Bangladesh at Chittagong and Mirpur respectively in 2009-10) and 41 & 74* (v India at Ahmedabad, 2011-12).
