Stats highlights from the first Test of the two-test series between West Indies and Bangladesh, at St Vincent.
Shiva Jayaraman10-Sep-2014 13 Number of times Bangladesh have been asked to follow-on in Tests including this match. They have lost on all occasions, but this was only the third time they scored enough in their second innings to make the opposition bat. For West Indies, this was the first time since 1995 that they managed to win a Test after asking the opposition to follow-on. Since then, West Indies had asked the opposition to follow-on on three different occasions but let the opposition escape with a draw in each of these Tests. 212 Runs scored by Kraigg Brathwaite in West Indies’ first innings – his highest score in Tests and his second Test hundred. Brathwaite’s double-hundred is the 14th score of 200 or more by a West Indies opener in Tests and the first such score since Chris Gayle’s 333 against Sri Lanka in Galle in 2010. Brathwaite has hit two centuries and one fifty in six innings and aggregates 433 runs at an average of 108.25 in 2014. 116 Runs scored by Mushfiqur Rahim in Bangladesh’s second innings. This was the 18th instance of a captain scoring a hundred after following on. The last such instance was when Alastair Cook got 176 runs against India in Ahmedabad in 2012. Mushfiqur is only the third wicketkeeper-captain to achieve this after England’s Alec Stewart, against South Africa in 1998, and South Africa’s Percy Sherwell, against England in 1907. 47 Number of times Shivnarine Chanderpaul has remained unbeaten in an innings in Tests, including his 85 not out in the first innings; Chanderpaul has now gone past Steve Waugh as the recognised batsman to have remained not out on most occasions in Tests. Overall, Courtney Walsh holds the record with 61 not outs. This was also the 17th time Chanderpaul finished with an unbeaten fifty. Only Allan Border has hit more unbeaten fifties than Chanderpaul in Tests. 157 Number of matches played by Chanderpaul – he has gone past Border to become the left-handed batsman with most Test caps. Among active players, Kumar Sangakkara is closest to Chanderpaul with 128 Test caps. 5 Number of catches taken by Darren Bravo in Bangladesh’s first innings – he becomes only the eighth fielder to take five catches in an innings in Tests. The last fielder to achieve this feat was also from West Indies. Darren Sammy’s five catches in the first innings of the Mumbai Test in 2013 included the catch of Sachin Tendulkar, who was playing his last innings. 6 Number of Bangladesh bowlers to take five-fors on debut, including Taijul Islam in West Indies’ first innings. All of the last-four such instances for Bangladesh have come against West Indies. Sohag Gazi, Elias Sunny and Mahmudullah are the other Bangladesh bowlers to take five-for on debut against West Indies. 5 Five-wicket hauls taken by Sulieman Benn in Tests, including the one he took in this Test. This was his second five-wicket haul in four Tests since making his comeback this year. He has taken 21 wickets at an average of 29.04 in Tests this year. 6 Number of times a Test featured wicketkeeper-captains on both sides, including this one. The last time this happened was in a two-Test series in 2002, involving the same teams, when Khaled Mashud captained Bangladesh and Ridley Jacobs captained West Indies. 4 Wickets by Kemar Roach in Bangladesh’s second innings. This was Roach’s fourth four-wicket haul in his last five innings. Roach has taken four wickets in opposition’s second innings in each of his last-three Tests. His 47 wickets in the second innings of the opposition have come at an average of 21.40. Among fast bowlers, only Vernon Philander and Ryan Harris have averaged better since Roach’s debut. 3 Number of century partnerships West Indies’ first-four wickets put together in their first innings of the Test – only the sixth such occasion for West Indies. The last time this happened was against India in the first innings of the Mumbai Test in 2011. 53 Runs scored by Tamim Iqbal in Bangladesh’s second innings. This was Tamim’s second fifty in 21 international innings this year. He has hit 350 runs at an average of 17.50 in international cricket in 2014. Among 28 openers who have batted in at least ten innings in 2014, Tamim’s average is the lowest.
