A century of wins!

The Indian team poses trophy after winning the the second Test cricket match against the West Indies in Hyderabad on October 14, 2018.

100

The number of Test match wins for India on home soil. It achieved this landmark during its record victory by an innings and 272 runs at Rajkot against the West Indies. India thus became the fourth side to win 100 or more Test matches at home.

Teams with 100 or more Test victories:

Team	Tests	Won	Lost	Drawn	Tied	Win percentage
Australia	415	238	97	79	1	57.35
England	515	217	120	178		42.14
South Africa	230	104	70	56		45.22
India	266	100	52	113	1	37.59

 

7

The number of times India has achieved a first innings lead of 400-plus in Tests. The 468-run lead at Rajkot was India’s third highest in Tests.

Biggest first-innings lead for India in Tests:

Lead	Opponent	Venue	Month, year	Won by	Captain	Batted
492	Bangladesh	Mirpur	May 2007	Innings and 239 runs	Rahul Dravid	1st
478	West Indies	Kolkata	November 2011	Innings and 15 runs	M. S. Dhoni	1st
468	West Indies	Rajkot	October 2018	Innings and 272 runs	Virat Kohli	1st
439	Sri Lanka	Colombo SSC	August 2017	Innings and 53 runs	Virat Kohli	1st
413	Sri Lanka	Kanpur	November 2009	Innings and 144 runs	M. S. Dhoni	1st
405	Sri Lanka	Nagpur	November 2017	Innings and 239 runs	Virat Kohli	2nd
400	Australia	Kolkata	March 1998	Innings and 219 runs	Mohammad Azharuddin	2nd

 

12

The number of Indian batsmen to register a century in their very first innings on Test debut. Prithvi Shaw became the latest entrant to this exclusive list. His 134 is now the third highest by an Indian in his very first Test innings on debut.

Highest scores by Indians on debut:

Runs	Batsman	Against	Venue	Date	Age	Batting position	Result
187	Shikhar Dhawan	Australia	Mohali	March 14, 2013	27 years, 101 days	2	Won
177	Rohit Sharma	West Indies	Kolkata	November 6, 2013	26 years, 191 days	6	Won
134	Prithvi Shaw	West Indies	Rajkot	October 4, 2018	18 years, 329 days	1	Won
131	Sourav Ganguly	England	Lord’s	June 20, 1996	23 years, 350 days	3	Drawn
124	Surinder Amarnath	New Zealand	Auckland	January 24, 1976	27 years, 26 days	3	Won

 

10

The number of teenage cricketers to have registered three-figure scores on their Test debut. Prithvi Shaw became the latest entrant and is now the fourth youngest and the first Indian teenager to do so, during his knock of 134 in Rajkot. Below is the list of all 10 teenagers who scored centuries on their Test debut.

Teenage cricketers to score a hundred on Test debut:

Age	Batsman	For	Runs	Opposition	Venue	Date	Innings	Result
17 years, 63 days	Mohammad Ashraful	Bangladesh	114	Sri Lanka	Colombo SSC	September 6, 2001	3	Lost
17 years, 354 days	Hamilton Masakadza	Zimbabwe	119	West Indies	Harare	July 27, 2001	3	Drawn
18 years, 328 days	Saleem Malik	Pakistan	100*	Pakistan	Karachi	March 5, 1982	3	Won
18 years, 329 days	Prithvi Shaw	India	134	West Indies	Rajkot	October 4, 2018	1	Won
19 years, 108 days	Mohammad Wasim	Pakistan	109*	New Zealand	Lahore	November 21, 1996	4	Lost
19 years, 119 days	Javed Miandad	Pakistan	163	New Zealand	Lahore	October 9, 1976	1	Won
19 years, 152 days	Archie Jackson	Australia	164	England	Adelaide	February 1, 1929	2	Lost
19 years, 184 days	Umar Akmal	Pakistan	129	New Zealand	Dunedin	November 24, 2009	2	Lost
19 years, 228 days	Adrian Barath	West Indies	104	Australia	Brisbane	November 26, 2009	3	Lost
19 years, 357 days	Doug Walters	Australia	155	England	Brisbane	December 10, 1965	1	Drawn

 

123

The number of innings taken by Virat Kohli to register his 24th Test hundred (in Rajkot). This is now the second quickest in terms of innings by any batsman to reach this landmark in Test history. Don Bradman in November 1947 took just 66 innings.

Innings	Tests	Batsman	For	Achieved on	Age	Scores of 50-99
66	43	Don Bradman	Australia	November 28, 1947	39 years, 93 days	11
123	72	Virat Kohli	India	October 5, 2018	29 years, 334 days	24
125	79	Sachin Tendulkar	India	November 26, 2000	27 years, 216 days	24
128	71	Sunil Gavaskar	India	December 13, 1981	32 years, 156 days	28
132	75	Matthew Hayden	Australia	November 18, 2005	34 years, 20 days	21
135	80	Mohammad Yousuf	Pakistan	July 5, 2009	34 years, 312 days	28

 

Queries Corner On how many occasions have both captains in a Test also kept wickets in the same match? — Adil Hussain, Ahmedabad The recent Test in Dubai provided the fifth time when both captains in a Test match were also the wicketkeepers. In all, it has occurred on eight occasions in Tests. Here are the details. * Twice in Tests for Lee Germon (New Zealand) and Andy Flower (Zimbabwe) in January 1996. * Once in Tests for Khaled Mashud (Bangladesh) and Mark Boucher (South Africa) in October 2002. * Twice in Tests for Khaled Mashud (Bangladesh) and Ridley Jacobs (West Indies) in December 2002. * Twice in Tests for Denesh Ramdin (West Indies) and Mushfiqur Rahim (Bangladesh) in September 2014. * Once in Tests for Sarfraz Ahmed (Pakistan) and Tim Paine (Australia) in October 2018 (in Dubai). How often has India won a Test match by an innings? When did it achieve its first ever innings victory in Tests? Also, which opponent has lost by an innings to India on most occasions? — Srihari Rao, Visakhapatnam India’s biggest Test win by an innings and 272 runs in Rajkot was its 42nd such instance in Test cricket. India’s first ever innings victory (innings and eight runs) came against England at Chepauk in Chennai on February 10, 1952. This, incidentally, was India’s first ever Test win! Among India's, opponents, Sri Lanka has lost to India by an innings on most occasions — 11 times. Sri Lanka is followed by England and West Indies with six each, Australia and New Zealand with four each and Pakistan, Zimbabwe, Bangladesh, South Africa and Afghanistan with one. Prithvi Shaw has a century on his first-class debut and also on his Test debut. Is he the first to do so? — Milan Shirke, Mumbai Prithvi Shaw is, in fact, the third batsman to achieve this rare feat. India’s Gundappa Viswanath was the first to do so in Tests. He made 230 on debut for Mysore in 1967-68 and then two years later made a 137 on his Test debut against Australia in 1969-70. The second batman to emulate Viswanath was Aussie Dirk Wellham. He made an exact 100 on debut for New South Wales in 1980-81 and a few months later he made 103 on Test debut against England at the Oval in 1981. In the Rajkot Test, 18-year-old Prithvi Shaw scored a century, while 29-year-old Ravindra Jadeja (he will be 30 in December) also hit a century in the same innings. Has it ever happened in any other Test that a teenager and and a much older player scored a century in the same innings? — B. K. Harinath, Mysuru There are few such instances in Test cricket history. But the maximum difference in age for such an instance that I could locate was between Zaheer Abbas (35 years, 164 days), when he scored 168 not out against India in Lahore in 1982-83, while Saleem Malik (19 years, 264 days) made 107 in the same innings. All figures above are updated as on October 11, 2018.