Statistical highlights of the third day’s play of the first cricket Test between India and West Indies
# For the eighth time, West Indies have been asked to follow-on in a home Test — three times each vs India and England, twice vs Australia. The last time they were asked to follow-on was also against the visiting Indians at St Lucia in June 2006.
# India have enforced a follow-on vs West Indies six times. Of the previous five instances, India won two Tests while the remaining three could not produce results.
# While batting first, the 323—run lead is India’s fourth highest in an away Test — the second highest vs West Indies behind the 373—run lead at Gros Islet in June 2006.
# Wriddhiman Saha is the third Indian wicketkeeper to effect six dismissals in a Test innings, joining Syed Kirmani (vs New Zealand at Christchurch in February 1976) and Mahendra Singh Dhoni (vs New Zealand at Wellington in April 2009).
# Saha is the first wicketkeeper to effect six dismissals in a Test innings in the Caribbean.
# Saha is the first Indian wicketkeeper to the associated in the dismissals of the top five batsmen in a Test innings.
# For the first time, two Indian fast bowlers (Umesh Yadav and Mohammed Shami) have taken four wickets or more in a Test innings in the West Indies.
# In all, fourteen instances have been recorded when two Indian speedsters have taken four wickets or more in a Test innings — nine instances outside the subcontinent.
# Umesh Yadav (4/41) has produced his second best bowling performance in Tests behind the 5 for 93 vs Australia at Perth in January 2012.
# Mohammed Shami (4/66) has registered his best bowling figures vs West Indies in Tests, obliterating the 4 for 71 at Kolkata in November 2013.
# The above figures are Shami’s second best in overseas Test next only to the 5 for 112 vs Australia at Sydney in January 2015.
# Mohammed Shami has taken 51 wickets at an average of 34.64 in 13 Tests. He has emulated Venkatesh Prasad’s feat, who had figures of 54 wickets (ave.27.29) after 13 Tests.
Both share an Indian record by a pacer for the quickest to 50.
# Kraigg Brathwaite (74) has posted his highest score vs India, surpassing the 68 at Mumbai in November 2011.
# Brathwaite’s third fifty vs India is his ninth in Tests.
# Since posting 116 by Brathwaite vs England at St.George’s in April 2015, the above innings is the first fifty by a West Indian opener in a home Test.
# Brathwaite is the second West Indian opener to post a fifty and capture three wickets in an innings in the same Test. Chris Gayle has accomplished the feat six times — three times vs Pakistan twice vs New Zealand and once vs England.
# Shane Dowrich, in his first Test innings as a wicketkeeper, has posted a fifty (57 not out) — his second highest score in Tests behind the 70 vs Australia at Roseau in June 2015.
# Jason Holder’s 36 is his second highest score as Captain in Tests behind the 68 vs Australia at Melbourne in December 2015.
# Jermaine Blackwood has registered three ducks in his last six innings in Tests.
# Since posting 92 vs Sri Lanka at Galle in October 2015, Blackwood is without a Test fifty in eight innings.
# Dowrich and Holder were involved in a 69—run stand — the highest eighth—wicket partnership in Tests at North Sound, obliterating the 65 (unbroken) between Mitchell Johnson and Brett Lee for Australia vs West Indies in 2008.
# Darren Bravo is the 24th West Indian batsman to manage 3000 runs in Tests — his tally being 3009 (ave.41.21) in 43 Tests.
Statistical highlights on the second day’s play
# Ravichandran Ashwin’s splendid 113 off 253 balls is his highest score in an overseas Test, eclipsing the 62 vs Australia at Sydney in January 2012.
# Ashwin has registered three Test centuries — the first two were also scored against the West Indies, while batting as number eight batsman — 124 at Kolkata in November 2013 and 103 at Mumbai in November 2011.
# Ashwin, for the first time in Tests, has batted as number six batsman.
# Just two batsmen have scored three hundreds while batting at number six or lower vs West Indies in Tests — Kapil Dev and Ashwin.
# Among the Indian batsmen with atleast five innings vs West Indies, his average of 64.66 is the second highest against them next only to the 65.45 by Sunil Gavaskar.
# India (566/8d) have recorded their second highest total vs West Indies in the Caribbean next only to the 588 for eight wickets declared at Gros Islet in June 2006.
# India’s score is the highest by any team at North Sound, Antigua, eclipsing the 522 by West Indies vs New Zealand in July 2012.
# Amit Mishra (53 off 68 balls) has recorded his first fifty vs West Indies צ his fourth in Tests. All his half centuries have been registered by him away from home.
# Mishra’s strike rate of 77.97 is his highest in an innings of 50 or more in Tests.
# Mishra, in nine overseas Tests, has completed his 500 runs — his aggregate being 501 (ave.31.31) in 16 innings.
# Virat Kohli (200 off 283 balls) has posted his first double century in first-class cricket. This is his first double hundred in International cricket. His previous highest in International cricket was 183 vs Pakistan in an ODI at Dhaka on March 18, 2012.
# This is Kohli’s highest in Tests, eclipsing the 169 vs Australia at Melbourne in December 2014.
# Kohli’s previous highest first-class score was 197 off 274 balls vs Sui Northern Gas Pipelines Ltd. at Ferozshah Kotla, New Delhi in September 2008.
# Kohli became the first Indian captain to register an innings of 150 or more in Tests in the Caribbean in Tests, eclipsing Rahul Dravid’s 146 at Gros Islet in June 2006.
# Kohli, at 27 years 259 days, is the youngest captain to post a double hundred in Tests in the Caribbean, surpassing Denis Atkinson’s record. While scoring his double century, Atkinson was 28 years 278 days — 219 vs Australia at Bridgetown in May 1955.
# Kohli became the first Indian captain to post a double century in an overseas Test and the fifth to record a double century in Tests, joining Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Sunil Gavaskar, Sachin Tendulkar and Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi.
# Kohli is the third visiting captain to register an innings of 200 or more in Tests in the Caribbean, joining England’s Len Hutton and Australia’s Bobby Simpson.
# Kohli became the eighth Indian batsman to complete 12,000 runs or more in International Cricket, joining Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid, Sourav Ganguly, Virender Sehwag, Mohammad Azharuddin, Mahendra Singh Dhoni and Sunil Gavaskar.
# Kohli became the first Indian batsman to be dismissed at 200 in a Test match. The only other captain to get out at 200 is Bangladesh’s Mushfiqur Rahim vs Sri Lanka at Galle in March 2013.
# Kohli’s splendid double century is the first double at this venue, outstripping Chris Gayle’s 150 for the West Indies vs New Zealand in July 2012.
# Fifty-plus runs were added for the second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh wickets for the second time in the same Test innings. Sri Lanka, during their total of 600 for six wickets declared, had produced the first such instance against India in the Colombo (SSC) Test in 2008.
# Kohli and Ashwin were associated in a stand of 168 — India’s third highest for the fifth wicket vs West Indies in the Caribbean in Tests — the highest being 204 between Sunil Gavaskar and Brijesh Patel at Port of Spain in March 1976.
# The partnership is the highest fifth-wicket stand in Tests at North Sound, Antigua, eclipsing the 132 between Dwayne Bravo and Shivnarine Chanderpaul vs Australia in 2008.
# Devendra Bishoo (43-1-163-3) has conceded 150 runs or more in a Test innings three times. His bowling figures are the third most by a West Indian bowler in a Test innings against India.
# In consecutive Tests, Shane Shillingford had conceded 167 and 179 runs in Kolkata and Mumbai during the 2013-14 series. He had produced five or more wickets both times.
# Kraigg Brathwaite (14.5-1-65-3) has recorded his best bowling performance vs India — his second best in Tests behind the 6 for 29 vs Sri Lanka at Colombo (PSS) in October 2015.
# Shannon Gabriel (2/65) has registered his best bowling figures vs India — his best are 3 for 10 vs Zimbabwe at Bridgetown in March 2013.
# West Indies are without a fifty-run opening stand in their last 22 Test innings since January 2015.
Statistical highlights on the first day’s play
# Virat Kohli has become the first Indian and the eight visiting captain to register a hundred in the Caribbean in Tests. Australia’s Ricky Ponting was the last captain to accomplish the feat — 158 at Kingston in 2007-08.
# Kohli’s magnificent unbeaten 143 is his highest score in first match innings — his only other hundred in first match innings was 119 vs South Africa at Johannesburg in December 2013. The knock is his first century vs West Indies in 10 innings — his 12th in 73 innings.
# Kohli became the 19th Indian batsman to amass 3000 runs or more in Tests and also completed his 1,000 runs as Test captain in 18 innings — his aggregate being 1039 (ave.61.11), including five hundreds and two fifties.
# Kohli’s distinction of reaching 1000 runs in 18 innings is the joint-second quickest by an Indian captain along with Mahendra Singh Dhoni. Sunil Gavaskar took 14 innings for his 1000.
# With five centuries overseas as captain, Kohli has equalled Mohammad Azharuddin’s tally, sharing an Indian record for most centuries (five) away from home.
# In seven Tests away from home as skipper, Kohli is averaging 76.27 while aggregating 839 runs in 12 innings, including five hundreds and a fifty. His superb average as captain away from home is the second highest next only to Don Bradman’s 85.63 in nine Tests(942 runs in 15 innings, including five hundreds and two fifties).
# Kohli became the third Indian captain to register a century in Tests in the Caribbean, joining Rahul Dravid (146 at Gros Islet in June 2006) and Kapil Dev (100 not out at Port of Spain in March 1983). Kapil Dev had missed another century as captain — 98 off 97 balls at St.John’s in 1983.
# Kohli became the first Indian skipper to register a fifty or more in his maiden innings in the Caribbean, outstripping Rahul Dravid’s 49 at St.John’s in 2006.
# Kohli’s unbeaten knock is the highest by a captain in Tests at North Sound, eclipsing West Indian, Ramnaresh Sarwan’s 128 vs Australia in 2008. Sarwan and Kohli are the only two captains to register hundreds at this venue.
# India’s impressive 302 for four is their first total of 300 or more on the first day of a Test series in the Caribbean, obliterating the 246 at Kingston in 2011.
# Shikhar Dhawan has registered his highest score vs West Indies in Tests, eclipsing the 33 off 28 balls in the 2013-14 Mumbai Test. Since recording consecutive hundreds (173 vs Bangladesh and 134 vs Sri Lanka) last year, the said knock is his first fifty in nine innings.
# Dhawan became is the fifth Indian opening batsman to record a fifty in the maiden Test innings in the Caribbean, joining Madhav Apte, Sunil Gavaskar, VVS Laxman and Ajay Jadeja.
# Dhawan’s knock of 84 is the second highest by an Indian left-handed batsman in the Caribbean behind the 104 by Salim Durani at Port of Spain in April 1962.
# Only four Indian batsmen have amassed more runs in their maiden Test innings vs West Indies in the Caribbean — Polly Umrigar — 130 at Port of Spain in 1952-53), Brijesh Patel — 115 not out at Port of Spain in 1975-76), Sanjay Manjrekar — 108 at Bridgetown in 1988-89) and Ajay Jadeja — 96 at St.John’s in 1996-97).
# Kohli and Dhawan were involved in a stand of 105 for the third wicket — the first century partnership for this wicket at this venue, obliterating the 90 between Martin Guptill and Ross Taylor for New Zealand vs West Indies in July 2012.
# As a pair, Kohli and Dhawan are averaging 110.80 for the third wicket — their tally being 554 in five innings. The said average dismissal per innings is the third highest by a pair for the third wicket, with a minimum of five partnerships, behind 137.00 between Wally Hammond and Eddie Paynter and 145.25 between Vinod Kambli and Sachin Tendulkar.
# Kohli has won five successive tosses between November 2015 and July 2016 in Tests. Nari Contractor (6), Mohammad Azharuddin (6) and Mahendra Singh Dhoni (6) — three Indian skippers share a record for winning most consecutive tosses.
In his previous series as skipper vs South Africa in 2015-16, Kohli had won all four tosses.
