Mumbai, Nov 26: It all started with a turning Day 5 pitch that took everyone by surprise. The Indian spinners finished off the West Indies second innings for a meagre 134, standing in sharp contrast to their first innings 590. R Ashwin narrowly missed a ten-wicket haul but nevertheless found himself in the elite company of players with a century as well as nine wickets in a Test. Rahul Dravid became the batsman with the most runs in the fourth-innings and to make a landmark Test unforgettable, the wildly swinging match ended in a last-ball draw. It was just the second time in history that a match was drawn with scores level.
Take a look at the numbers that matter from the memorable Wankhede Test.
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West Indies were bowled out for 134 – their second lowest total against India in India. The lowest remains 127 at Delhi in 1987-88.
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West Indies’ 134 came after they had scored a mammoth 590 in the first innings – a disparity of 456 runs. This disparity of 456 runs is the highest in Test cricket history for a side that lost all 10 wickets in the second innings. South Africa had a disparity of 426 runs between two innings against Australia at Melbourne in 1910-11 as they scored 506 and 80.
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R Ashwin missed a rare feat of scoring a hundred and taking 10 wickets in the same Test. Only two players – Ian Botham and Imran Khan – have done so. Ashwin still is in elite company as only four other players have scored a century and taken nine wickets in the same Test. The details:
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Player
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Performance
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Vs
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Venue
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Season
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IT Botham (Eng)
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114 & 13-106
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India
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Mumbai WS
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1979-80
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Imran Khan (Pak)
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117 & 11-180
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India
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Faisalabad
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1982-83
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JH Sinclair (SA)
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106 & 9-89
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England
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Cape Town
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1898-99
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R Benaud (Aus)
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100 & 9-154
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South Africa
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Johannesburg
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1957-58
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R Ashwin (Ind)
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103 & 9-190
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West Indies
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Mumbai WS
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2011-12
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Dhoni’s eight dismissals in the match (six catches & two stumpings) are the most by a wicketkeeper in an India-West Indies Test. Kiran More had effected seven dismissals in Chennai Test in 1987-88.
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West Indies were 91 for two at one stage but lost their last eight wickets for only 43 runs.
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Pragyan Ojha (six for 47) achieved his best figures in Test cricket, bettering his previous best of six for 72 at Delhi in the first Test of this series. Interestingly, his spin partner R Ashwin also has identical career-best figures.
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All 10 wickets in West Indies’ second innings were taken by the spinners. The last time this happened for India was against Australia at Delhi in October 2008 when Anil Kumble (3), Amit Mishra (2) and Virender Sehwag (5) accounted for all 10 opposition wickets.
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Darren Bravo became the second West Indies player to aggregate 400 runs or more in a three-Test series against India in India – 404 (avg 67.33). Jimmy Adams is the only other player to do so for the West Indies scoring 520 runs (avg 173.33) in the 1994-95 series.
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Incidentally, Bravo is the sixth batsman to aggregate 400 runs in a three-Test series against India in India. Besides Adams and Bravo, Australia's Matthew Hayden and three Pakistanis – Younis Khan, Misbah-ul-Haq and Inzamam-ul-Haq – have done so. Hayden had scored 549 runs at an average of 109.80 in the 2000-01 series in India – the most by a visiting batsman in a three-Test series in India.
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R Ashwin has a career tally of 22 wickets – the second highest by any Indian bowler after his first three Tests after Narendra Hirwani’s tally of 31 wickets.
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Rahul Dravid now holds the record for aggregating the most runs in the fourth innings of Tests – 1540 in 55 innings (avg 41.62). He wrested the record from Sachin Tendulkar who has a tally of 1518 runs in 54 innings (avg 38.92).
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For only the second time in Test history, a Test was drawn with the scores level. The only other such instance came in the 1996-97 Bulawayo Test between Zimbabwe and England.
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The match aggregate of 1448 runs (for the loss of 39 wickets) is a new record in India-West Indies Tests in India. The previous highest was also achieved at the same ground in 1974-75 when 1417 runs were scored for the loss of 29 wickets.
