2nd Test, India v Zimbabwe, Statistical Highlights

It was the 1549th Test match in cricket history

Rajneesh Gupta19-Jun-2001

• It was the 1549th Test match in cricket history.
• It was India’s 341st and Zimbabwe’s 52nd Test match – seventh between
  these two sides.

• It was the 28th Test match on Zimbabwean soilfourth between these
  two sides.

• Umpire Ian Robinson was officiating in his 25th Test match. He became
  first Zimbabwean and 31st umpire in Test annals to reach this
  landmark. The other umpire Asoka de Silva was standing in his third
  Test.

• Hemang Badani and Travis Friend became the 237th and 51st player to
  represent India and Zimbabwe respectively. By an odd coincidence both
  these players have appeared in 13 matches each for their respective
  sides.

• Grant Flower was playing his 50th Test match. He became third
  Zimbabwean after brother Andy and Alistair Campbell (52) and 171st
  player in all to have reached this milestone.

• Rahul Dravid on 25 in first innings became the highest run-scorer
  against Zimbabwe in Tests moving ahead of New Zealander Nathan Astle
  who has an aggregate of 662 runs from 9 Tests and 15 innings. At the
  end of this match Dravid has scored 732 runs from five Tests and 8
  innings. Tendulkar with 664 runs from 7 Tests and 11 innings has moved
  to second place behind Dravid.

• Andy Blignaut’s three catches in first innings equalled the best
  performance by a Zimbabwean in the field in an innings against India.
  Guy Whittall had also taken three catches in the first innings of the
  Bulawayo Test just a week ago.

• Andy Flower completed his 1000 Test runs against India when his score
  reached 18 in first innings. He became first Zimbabwean and 22nd
  batsman in all to have accomplished this feat. At the end of this
  match Andy has taken his aggregate to 1043 runs from 14 innings of
  seven Tests against India. Flower The accompanying table lists the
  batsman with 1000 runs in a career against India. It might be noted
  that Andy’s average of 128.37 is the highest among this elite band.

Batsmen with a career aggregate of 1000 runs against India :

• The remarkable thing about Andy’s feat is that he needed only seven
  Tests to complete his 1000 runs.Flower now shares the record of
  completing 1000 runs in a career against India in least Test matches
  with West Indian Everton Weekes. Weekes, however, is the fastest in
  terms of innings as he accomplished this feat in four innings lesser
  than Andy.

• Andy is now jointly placed second among the batsmen reaching 1000 runs
  in a career against a particular country in least matches alongwith
  West Indian Everton Weekes, Australia’s Don Bradman and Doug Walters
  with West Indian Viv Richards heading the table. Richards took only
  six Tests to achieve a runaggregate of 1000 against England. Another
  West Indian Weekes holds the world record of being the fastest in
  least innings as he took only nine inning to complete his 1000 runs
  against India. The details:

Fastest to complete 1000 test runs against a specific country :

• Heath Streak,on 11 in first innings,completed his 1000 runs in 40th
  Test. He became seventh Zimbabwean and 363rd batsman in Test annals to
  reach this landmark. The batsman with a career aggregate of 1000 runs
  for Zimbabwe are :Andy Flower (3908 runs in 52 Tests), Grant Flower
  (2812 runs in 50 Tests), Alistair Campbell (2307 runs in 52 Tests),Guy
  Whittall (2056 runs in 41 Tests), Dave Houghton (1464 runs in 22
  Tests),Murray Goodwin (1414 runs in 19 Tests) and Heath Streak (1037
  runs in 40 Tests).

• With this, Streak also completed the coveted double of 1000 runs and
  100 wickets, becoming the first Zimbabwean and 36th allrounder to do
  so.

• Grant Flower,on 10 in first innings, became only the second batsman
  after brother Andy to reach 1000 runs at Harare Sports Club Ground. At
  the end of this Test,Grant has an aggregate of 1079 runs from 17 Tests
  after Andy’s 1098 runs from 18 Tests.

• Harbhajan Singh and Ashish Nehra by returning the figures of four for
  71 and four for 72 achieved the two best figures by an Indian bowler
  in Zimbabwe. Anil Kumble had figures of four for 87 at this same venue
  in 1998-99.

• Sachin Tendulkar,on 19 in second innings,became the second highest
  run-getter for India in Tests. He surpassed Dilip Vengsarkar’s tally
  of 6868 runs from 116 matches and 185 innings. Tendulkar overhauled
  Vengsarkar’s aggregate in 32 Tests and 50 innings lesser. Now only
  Sunil Gavaskar with 10122 runs in 125 Tests and 214 innings is ahead
  of Tendulkar. Tendulkar,with 6919 runs at the end of this Test,is
  placed 23rd in the list of leading Test batsmen.It is interesting to
  note that Tendulkar’s average of 57.18 is second only to Don Bradman’s
  99.94.

• Tendulkar now has 53 scores of fifty plus on this name including 25
  hundreds which takes him past Vengsarkar who has 52 such scores (17
  hundreds and 35 fifties) to his credit. Only Gavaskar has more fifty
  plus scores 79 (34+45) among Indian batsmen.

• Tendulkar now has aggregated 2004 runs in 25 Tests (ave 40.08) in the
  matches lost by India . He became second Indian after Sunil Gavaskar
  (2314 runs in 34 Tests) and 11th batsman in all to aggregate 2000 runs
  in the `lost’ matches. For the record Australia’s Allan Border has the
  maximum run aggregate of 2771 runs (ave.33.39) in 46 Tests lost by
  Australia. The accompanying tables have details.

Most runs in `lost’ matches

• The duck in second innings was eighth for Ajit Agarkar in his tenth
  Test and 16th innings. Agarkar’s duck frequency of 50 % is the highest
  in Test cricket by a batsman aggregating atleast five ducks in a
  career. The details :

Highest duck percentage in a career(Min 5 ducks)

• Ashish Nehra became 27th Indian to bag a Test match pair (i.e. duck in
  both innings) on 36th occasion. He also achieved the dubious
  distinction of becoming the first Indian to suffer this ignominy
  against Zimbabwe. The other batsmen to do so against Zimbabwe are
  Pakistan’s Manzoor Elahi (1994-95) and Mushtaq Ahmed (1997-98),West
  Indian Adrian Griffith (1999-00) and Bangladesh’s Manjural Islam and
  Mohammad Sharif (2000-01).

• Blignaut (5-74) became the third Zimbabwean to take a five wicket haul
  against India. Interestingly all three have performed this feat this
  same ground. John Traicos (5-86) in 1992-93 and Henry Olonga (5-70)
  are the others to do so.

• Javagal Srinath now has taken 192 wickets in 52 Tests which puts him
  ahead of Erapally Prasanna who had 189 wickets from 49 Tests to his
  credit. Now only Kapil Dev (434 wickets in 131 Tests), Anil Kumble
  (276 in 61), Bishan Singh Bedi (266 in 67) and Bhagwat Chandrasekhar
  (242 in 58) are ahead of Srinath for India.

• With the series tied at 1-1,India now has still not won a Test series
  outside the sub-continent since 1986 when it defeated England by 2-0
  margin.

• The win was Zimbabwe’s sixth in 52 matches. Interestingly Zimbabwe has
  now beaten three neighbouring countries India, Pakistan and Bangladesh
  on two occasions each.

• The defeat was India’s 71st in 159th Test on foreign soil and second
  in four Tests in Zimbabwe.

• At the end of this series :
• India’s overall Test record :played 341,won 66,lost 114,drawn 160 and
  tied one.

• Zimbabwe’s overall Test record:played 52,won 6,lost 26 and drawn 20.
• Saurav Ganguly’s captaincy record :played 8,won 5,lost 2 and drawn
  one.

• Heath Streak’s captaincy record :played 9,won 3,lost 4 and drawn 2.