Statistical highlights on the third
day of the fourth cricket Test between India and England at Wankhede stadium, here.
# Virat Kohli became the third Indian skipper to amass 1000 runs or more in a calendar year - 1112 runs (ave.79.42) in 11 Tests. He has joined Rahul Dravid - 1095 runs (ave.60.83) in 12 Tests in 2006 and Sachin Tendulkar - 1000 runs (ave.62.50) in 12 Tests in 1997.
# Kohli, for the first time, has managed 1,000 runs or more in a calendar year in Tests - his previous best aggregate being 847 (ave.44.57) in 10 Tests in 2014. Rahul Dravid was the last Indian batsman to amass 1000 runs in a calendar year - 1145 runs at an average of 57.25 in 12 Tests in 2011.
# Kohli became the fourth batsman to complete 1,000 runs or more this year, joining Jonny Bairstow (1369), Joe Root (1306) and Alastair Cook (1193).
# Kohli became the 14th Indian batsman to amass 4,000 runs or more in Tests - his tally being 4106 (ave.50.07) in 52 Tests, including 15 hundreds and 14 fifties.
# Kohli is averaging 50-plus for the first time in Tests and became the first player to achieve the average of 50-plus in all three formats - Tests, ODIs and T20Is.
# Kohli's tally of eight Test hundreds as an Indian captain is bettered only by two - Sunil Gavaskar (11) and Mohammad Azharuddin (9).
# Kohli has scored 552 runs in the present series at an average of 138.00 in seven innings - his second instance of 500 runs or more in a Test series - the first instance being 692 (ave.86.50) in four Tests vs Australia in 2014-15.
# Kohli is the fifth Indian batsman to amass 500 runs or more in a Test series more than once, joining Sunil Gavaskar (six times), Mohinder Amarnath (twice), Rahul Dravid (twice) and Gundappa Viswanath (twice).
# Kohli's distinction of reaching 15 hundreds in 89 innings is the second quickest by an Indian batsman next only to the 77 taken by Sunil Gavaskar.
# Kohli's tally of 41 hundreds in International cricket is bettered only by two Indian batsmen - Sachin Tendulkar (100) and Rahul Dravid (48). The leading centurions in International Cricket are - Tendulkar (100), Ricky Ponting (71), Kumar Sangakkara (63) and Jacques Kallis (62).
# Kohli (2008) is the seventh Indian captain to complete 2,000 runs or more in Tests., joining Mahendra Singh Dhoni (3454), Sunil Gavaskar (3449), Mohammad Azharuddin (2856), Sourav Ganguly (2561), Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi (2424) and Sachin Tendulkar (2054)
# Murali Vijay's 136 is his eighth century in Tests - his third vs England.
# Before this hundred vs England in Tests, he had scored 146 at Nottingham in July 2014 and 126 at Rajkot last month against them.
# In all seven centuries have been registered by the Indian openers in Tests at Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai. Sunil Gavaskar holds the record with five hundreds at this venue - two vs Australia & one each vs England, New Zealand and West Indies) and one each by Virender Sehwag (vs West Indies) and Murali Vijay (vs England).
# Kohli is the second Indian batsman to hit double
century against Bangladesh - the first being Sachin Tendulkar - 248 not out at Dhaka in December 2004.
# Kohli has become the first player to hit double centuries in four successive Test series. He had recorded 200 vs West Indies at North Sound, 211 vs New Zealand at Indore & 235 vs England at Mumbai in the previous three Test rubbers last year.
# Don Bradman and Rahul Dravid had recorded the distinction in three consecutive series.
# Just three Indian players have posted more double centuries than Kohli in Tests - 6 each by Virender Sehwag & Sachin Tendulkar and five by Rahul Dravid.
# Kohli's tally of four innings of 200-plus as captain has been exceeded only by Brian Lara (5). Don Bradman, Michael Clarke and Graeme Smith have also four innings of 200-plus to their credit in Tests.
# Kohli has managed 1168 runs in fifteen innings (ave.89.84), including four centuries and two fifties, in the 2016-17 home season - the highest tally by any batsman in a home season, eclipsing the 1105 (ave.69.06), including four hundreds and three half-centuries, in 17 innings by Virender Sehwag in 2004-05.
# Wriddhiman Saha (106 not out) has posted his highest Test score - his second century - the first being 104 vs West Indies at Gros Islet in August 2016.
# Saha is the first Indian wicketkeeper to register a hundred in India as well as outside the subcontinent in Tests.
# Ravindra Jadeja (60 not out) has posted back to back fifties for the first time in Tests. In his previous innings, he had scored 51 vs England at Chennai in December 2016.
# Jadeja's first fifty vs Bangladesh is his fifth in Tests.
# Jadeja and Saha were associated in a stand of 118 (unbroken) - India's second highest seventh-wicket partnership vs Bangladesh in Tests, next only to the 121 between Sourav Ganguly and Sunil Joshi at Dhaka in November 2000.
# For the first time, five batsmen between number two and six have posted 75 or more in the same Test innings.
