Statsman: Umesh Yadav now among five Indian fast bowlers to claim 100 wickets at home

Umesh Yadav is one of five Indian fast bowlers to claim 100 Test wickets at home - and the fastest to get there in terms of deliveries bowled. He reached the landmark in the Indore Test between India and Australia.

Umesh Yadav’s bowling strike-rate is the best among the five fast bowlers to have reached the landmark. | Photo Credit: AP

Umesh Yadav’s distinction

5 The number of Indian pace bowlers who have the distinction of claiming 100 or more wickets on home soil. Umesh Yadav, the latest Indian to achieve this landmark in the Indore Test match on 2 March 2023, is also the quickest to achieve this in fewer number of balls. His bowling strike-rate (i.e. balls per wicket claimed) is the best among these pace bowlers while claiming their 100th Test wicket in India.

Best bowling strike-rates of Indian pacemen while reaching 100 wickets in home Tests

						Overall career stats
S/R	Bowler	Tests	Achieved on	Wkts	Ave.	Tests	wickets
46.15	Umesh Yadav	31	2 Mar 2023	101	24.53	32	101
50.25	Kapil Dev	24	18 Jan 1982	100	25.25	65	219
53.35	Javagal Srinath	27	20 Dec 2001	101	25.68	32	108
65.02	Ishant Sharma	38	6 Feb 2021	100	31.28	42	104
67.78	Zaheer Khan	35	3 Sep 2012	100	35.18	38	104

13 The number of occasions Cheteshwar Pujara has been dismissed by Aussie offie Nathan Lyon in Test cricket. No other bowler in Test cricket has the distinction of claiming the wicket of an Indian batter on this many occasions.

Indian batters dismissed by an opponent bowler on most occasions in Test cricket

No. of times	Indian Batter	Dismissed by	In Tests
13	Cheteshwar Pujara	Nathan Lyon (Aus)	21
12	Sunil Gavaskar	Derek Underwood (Eng)	20
12	Cheteshwar Pujara	James Anderson (Eng)	24
11	Sunil Gavaskar	Michael Holding (WI)	15
11	Sunil Gavaskar	Imran Khan (Pak)	18
10	Dilip Vengsarkar	Imran Khan (Pak)	18
10	Dilip Vengsarkar	Malcolm Marshall (WI)	16
10	Ajinkya Rahane	Nathan Lyon (Aus)	17

275 The aggregate of runs made by Australia (197 and 78/1) in the Indore Test match. This is now the lowest run aggregate by any visiting side to achieve a victory on Indian soil.

Lowest match aggregate by a visiting side in India while achieving a victory

Agg. runs	(Totals)	For	Venue	Date	Result
275	(197 & 78/1)	Australia	Indore	Mar 2023	won by 9 wickets
279	(203 & 76/2)	England	Kanpur	Jan 1952	won by 8 wickets
319	(319)	Australia	Chennai	Oct 1956	won by an inns and 5 runs
331	(331)	Pakistan	Lucknow Univ	Oct 1952	won by an inns and 43 runs
337	(321 & 16/0)	England	Kolkata	Jan 1977	won by 10 wickets

33.2 The number of overs Australia required to dismiss India in the Indore Test match in the first innings. This is now the fifth fewest number of overs taken by a visiting side in India to dismiss the home team.

Fewest overs faced by India at home in a dismissed total

Overs	Total	Against	Venue	Month, Year	Result
20	76	South Africa	Ahmedabad	Apr 2008	Lost
27	83	New Zealand	Mohali	Oct 1999	Drawn
30	90	West Indies	Kolkata	Dec 1983	Lost
30.5	75	West Indies	Delhi	Nov 1987	Lost
33.2	109	Australia	Indore	Mar 2023	Lost
33.3	88	New Zealand	Mumbai BS	Mar 1965	Drawn
33.5	107	Australia	Pune	Feb 2017	Lost

14 The number of wickets that fell on the opening day of the Indore Test match. Only on four occasions, 14 or more wickets have fallen in a home Test match on Day 1 in India.

Most wickets to fall on DAY1 of a Test match on Indian soil

Wkts	Runs	Inns1	Inns2	Venue	Date	Result
18	193	Ind 75/10	WI 118/8	Delhi	25 Nov 1987	WI won by 5 wkts on 4th day
16	338	Ind 252/10	SL 86/6	Bengaluru	12 Mar 2022	Ind won by 238 runs on 3rd day
14	299	Ind 76/10	SA 223/4	Ahmedabad	3 Apr 2008	SA won by inns & 90 runs on 3rd day
14	265	Ind 109/10	Aus 156/4	Indore	1 Mar 2023	Aus won by 9 wkts on 3rd day

5 The number of batters to aggregate 17000 runs or more for India in international cricket. Rohit Sharma, on 11 March 2023, became the latest Indian batter to achieve this landmark on the third day in Ahmedabad.

17K+ international (Tests+ODIs+T20Is) runs for India

Batter	Mts	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	100	50
Sachin Tendulkar	664	782	74	34357	248*	48.52	100	164
Virat Kohli	494	552	82	25233	254*	53.68	75	129
Rahul Dravid	504	599	71	24064	270	45.57	48	145
Sourav Ganguly	421	485	40	18433	239	41.42	38	106
M. S. Dhoni	535	523	141	17092	224	44.74	15	108
Rohit Sharma	438	457	60	17014	264	42.85	43	91

Note: The final tally for Dravid (24208 runs in 509 matches), Ganguly (18575 runs in 424 matches) and Dhoni (17266 runs in 538 matches) will differ from the figures given above since they have also played for other teams (ICC World XI & Asia XI). Likewise, Virender Sehwag also has 17253 runs (in 374 matches), although he only has 16892 runs in 363 matches while playing for India.

2 The number of Indian batters younger than Shubman Gill to register a Test century against Australia at home. During his 128 in Ahmedabad on 11 March 2023, Gill became the third youngest to do so for India.

Youngest Indian to score a Test century against Australia at home

Age	Batter	Runs	Venue	Month, Year	Result
20y-281d	Gundappa Viswanath+	137	Kanpur	Nov 1969	Drawn
23y-170d	Dilip Vengsarkar	112	Bangalore	Sep 1979	Drawn
23y-184d	Shubman Gill	128	Ahmedabad	Mar 2023	Drawn
23y-273d	Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi	128*	Chennai (Corpn)	Oct 1964	Lost
24y-111d	Virat Kohli	107	Chennai	Feb 2013	Won

+ on Test debut

56 The number of Test wickets claimed by Nathan Lyon in India. This is now the most by any visiting bowler.

Most Test wickets by a visiting bowler in India

Bowler	For	Bowling Type	Mts	Wkts	Best	Ave.	Econ	S/R	5i	10m
Nathan Lyon	Australia	Right arm off-break	11	56	8/50	27.35	3.16	51.7	5	1
Derek Underwood	England	Left arm slow	16	54	5/84	26.51	2.03	78.0	1	0
Richie Benaud	Australia	Right arm leg-break	8	52	7/72	18.38	1.94	56.7	5	1
Courtney Walsh	West Indies	Right arm fast	7	43	6/79	18.55	2.87	38.7	3	0
M Muralidaran	Sri Lanka	Right arm off-break	11	40	7/100	45.45	3.16	86.2	2	0

16 The consecutive number of Test series won by India at home. This is now, by far, the longest for any Test side at home. Since losing the home Test series 1-2 against England in Nov-Dec 2012, 10 years ago, India, at home, is impregnable. No other home side has managed to win more than 10 Test series in a row. Australia is the only other side that has done it by winning 10 consecutive home series on two separate occasions. For the record, India, during this period, in 46 matches, has won 36 Tests, lost 3, and drawn seven, Four Indian captains were involved during this winning sequence: M, S, Dhoni, Virat Kohli, Ajinkya Rahane and Rohit Sharma.

Teams winning most consecutive Test series at home

Series	Home team	From	To	Tests	Won	Lost	Drawn	%win
16*	India	Feb 2013	Mar 2023*	46	36	3	7	78.26
10	Australia	Nov 1994	Jan 2001	38	28	5	5	73.68
10	Australia	July 2004	Dec 2008	27	23	1	3	85.19

*Winning sequence continues

All records are correct and updated until 13 March 2023