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Statistical highlights on the fourth

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Statistical highlights on the fourth

day of the fourth cricket Test between India and England here today.

# India's impressive score of 631 is the highest by any team in Tests at Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai, eclipsing the 604 for 6 wickets declared by West Indies vs India in January 1975.

# India's previous highest total against England at Wankhede Stadium was 591 in February 1933.

# India's 631 is their highest total against England in Tests in India and their second highest vs England next only to the 664 at The Oval in August 2007.

# Virat Kohli and Jayant Yadav were associated in a double century stand for the eighth wicket - India's first 200-plus partnership for this wicket-position in Tests. The said stand is the second highest by an eighth-wicket pair vs England in Tests behind the 243 between Clem Hill and Roger Hartigan for Australia at Adelaide in January 1908.
 

# Kohli has registered his highest Test score (235), surpassing the 211 vs New Zealand at Indore in October this year.

# With his aforesaid innings, he took his batting average to 50-plus in Tests to become the first batsman to register fifty-plus average in all three formats simultaneously.

# Kohli has posted four innings of 150-plus as Captain in Tests this year to become the third batsman to accomplish the feat - the first two being Michael Clarke (2012) and Brendon McCullum (2014).

# Kohli is the fifth batsman to hit three or more double centuries in a calendar year, joining Michael Clarke (Australia) - four in 2012; Don Bradman (Australia) in 1930; Ricky Ponting (Australia) in 2003, Brendon McCullum (New Zealand) in 2014.

# Kohli became the third batsman to post a double hundred in three consecutive Test series - vs West Indies, vs New Zealand and vs England - all in 2016 - the first two being Don Bradman in 1930-31 - vs England, West Indies & South Africa and Rahul Dravid in 2003-04 - vs New Zealand, Australia and Pakistan.

# Kohli has become the 17th Indian batsman to complete 2,000 runs or more in Tests in India.

# Kohli's aggregate of 2580 (ave.88.96) in 36 matches is the highest by any batsman this year in International cricket. His tally includes seven hundreds and 13 fifties.

# Kohli is averaging 65.50 as captain while scoring 2096 runs in 21 Tests - the second highest average among the captains with at least 2000 runs in Tests next only to the 101.51 by Sir Donald Bradman - 3147 runs in 24 Tests.

# Kohli has totalled 640 runs at an average of 128.00 in four Tests in the present series - a new record in a Test series for India vs England, surpassing the 602 (average 100.33) by Rahul Dravid in four Tests in 2002.

# Kohli is the third Indian batsman after Sunil Gavaskar and Rahul Dravid to amass 600 runs or more in a Test series twice. Kohli had first amassed 600 runs vs Australia in 2014-15 - 692 (ave.86.50) in four Tests.

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First Published: Dec 11 2016 | 7:57 PM IST

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