Statistical highlights on day 3 of

Statistical highlights on day 3 of
the first Test between India and New Zealand here today.
# Cheteshwar Pujara has recorded two fifty-plus scores for the second time in a Test match -- 62 & 50 not out. The first occasion was vs Australia at Delhi in March 2013 -- 52 & an unbeaten 82.
# Pujara is averaging 66.37 in Tests on Indian soil as compared to his average of 33.36 away from home.
# Ravindra Jadeja enjoys an impressive bowling record in Tests in the Indian subcontinent -- his tally being 55 wickets at an average of 15.60, including four five-wicket hauls.

# Jadeja's today's bowling average is the best by any bowler in Tests in Asia (minimum 50 wickets). Richie Benaud has the next best average -- 71 wickets in 12 Tests at an average of 19.32, including six five-wicket hauls and one instance of 10 wickets in a Test match.

# Jadeja has captured five wickets or more in an innings five times in Tests -- four five-wicket instances on Indian soil and one overseas.
# Jadeja has claimed three five-wicket hauls in six Tests under Virat Kohli's captaincy.
# Kane Williamson's batting average of 86.20 in seven innings (431 runs in seven innings) is the second highest by a captain in Tests (minimum 200 runs), next only to the 101.51 by Don Bradman.

# Ross Taylor has recorded successive ducks for the first time in Tests -- vs South Africa at Centurion last month and vs India at Kanpur.
# Taylor's 11th duck in Tests is his first in 10 Tests vs India.
# Three century stands for the second wicket have been registered in a Test match for the third time. Murali Vijay and Cheteshwar Pujara put on 112 (1st innings) and an unbroken 107 (2nd innings) and 124 by Kane Williamson and Tom Latham in the 1st innings.
# The first two instances in Test annals were registered in the 1953 Lord's Test between Australia and England and the 1972-73 Melbourne Test between Pakistan and Australia.

# Pujara and Vijay have become the eighth Indian pair to share a century stand in each innings of a Test match.
# Six New Zealand batsmen have been dismissed LBW in an innings for the first time vs India.
# This is the second such instance by any side in a Test innings vs India. The first was West Indies in their first innings of 443 at Mohali in December 1994.
# India have provided their fifth instance when the top three players have scored 30 or more in both the innings of a Test match -- the second such instance at Green Park, Kanpur.

# Virat has taken 166 innings for his 26 hundreds - the
quickest among the players with 26 centuries or more in ODIs.
# Virat's unbeaten 154 is his second highest score in ODIs behind the 183 vs Pakistan at Dhaka on March 18, 2012.
# Virat has completed his 3000 runs in ODIs at home - his tally being 3092 at an average of 58.33 in 66 matches (63 innings), including 11 hundreds and 17 fifties.
# Virat has recorded 22 centuries in a winning cause in ODIs. Only three batsmen have registered more hundreds in wins - Tendulkar (33), Ponting (25) and Jayasuriya (24).

# Kohli, with 14 hundreds in successful chases in ODIs, has equalled Tendulkar's record. His overall tally of 16 hundreds in chases is the second highest next only to Tendulkar's 17.
# Kohli is averaging 90.10 in successful chases while amassing 3514 runs in 62 ODIs - the highest average among the batsmen with 2500 runs or more.
# Kohli is the first batsman to hit an innings of 150-plus in ODIs at Mohali, bettering the 139 not out by MS Dhoni vs Australia on October 19, 2013.
# Mahendra Singh Dhoni is the third wicketkeeper to complete 9000 runs in ODIs - his tally being 9058 (ave.51.17) in 281 matches - the first two being Adam Gilchrist (9410) and Kumar Sangakkara (13341). Dhoni's feat of reaching the milestone in 244 innings is the quickest by a wicketkeeper - the next two being Sangakkara (252) and Gilchrist (262).

# Dhoni is the fifth Indian batsman to complete 9000 runs in ODIs, joining Sachin Tendulkar (18,426), Sourav Ganguly (11,363), Rahul Dravid (10889) and Mohammad Azharuddin (9378).
# Dhoni's feat of taking 244 innings to reach 9000 runs is the sixth quickest in ODIs behind Sourav Ganguly (228), Sachin Tendulkar (235), Brian Lara (239), Ricky Ponting (242) and Jacques Kallis (242).
# Dhoni's 80 is his second highest score vs New Zealand in ODIs next only to the 84 not out at Napier on March 3, 2009.
# Dhoni's sixth fifty vs New Zealand is his 61st in ODIs.
# Among the batsmen with 5000 runs or more in wins, Dhoni's average is the highest in ODIs - 5365 runs in 155 matches at an average of 72.50. He is followed by Virat Kohli - 5234 (ave.70.72) in 101 matches.

# Dhoni has registered 196 sixes in ODIs, setting an Indian record, bettering the 195 by Sachin Tendulkar.
# Trent Boult (10-0-73-0) has produced his worst bowling performance in ODIs.