Home Statsman Pujara's feat! Mohandas Menon 29 November, 2017 14:07 IST Cheteshwar Pujara... batting on all five days of the Kolkata Test. - PTI Mohandas Menon 29 November, 2017 14:07 IST 8: The number of batsmen to register 50 or more centuries in international cricket. Virat Kohli’s unbeaten 104 in the Kolkata Test match against Sri Lanka was the 50th century of his career. His tally now includes 19 Test centuries (after the 213 in the first innings against Sri Lanka in the Nagpur Test) and 32 in One-day internationals. The table below has all the details.Batsmen with most international 100sTotal 100sBatsmanForMtsInnsRunsHS50sInns for 50th centuryAchieved in100Sachin TendulkarInd66478234357248*164376Nov 200071Ricky PontingAus+56066827483257146420Mar 200663Kumar SangakkaraSL+59466628016319153593Feb 201462Jacques KallisSAf+51961725534224149520Feb 201054Mahela JayawardeneSL+65272525957374136667Jan 201454Hashim AmlaSAf+31038417236311*77348Feb 201753Brian LaraWI+43052122358400*111465Nov 200551Virat KohliInd3193491596123577348Nov 2017Note: Amla and Kohli are the quickest to reach this landmark — in 348 innings!+ denotes appeared for other teams (World XI, Africa XI, Asia XI) 8: The number of Test captains who had registered a three-figure score in the second innings after being dismissed for a duck in the first. Virat Kohli became the first Indian captain to do so. The table below lists all such instances.Batsmen with a duck in the first and a 100 in the second as captain in same Test match1st Inns2nd innsCaptainForOppVenueMonth, YearResult0153*Billy MurdochAusEngThe OvalSep 1880Lost0143Harry TrottAusEngLord’sJun 1896Lost0112Peter MayEngSAfLord’sJun 1955WON0113*Gary SobersWIEngKingstonFeb 1968Drawn0107Martin CroweNZSLColombo SSCDec 1992Lost0129*Mohd AshrafulBanSLColombo PSSJul 2007Lost0110Andrew StraussEngAusBrisbaneNov 2010Drawn0104*Virat KohliIndSLKolkataNov 2017Drawn 9: The number of batsmen in Test cricket history who have done some batting on all the five days of a Test match. Cheteshwar Pujara (pic above) became the latest entrant in the Kolkata Test match. Interestingly, he joins two other Indians, who had both achieved a similar feat at the Eden Gardens in Kolkata. M. L. Jaisimha was the first against Australia in January 1960 and then 24 years later, Ravi Shastri against England in Dec-Jan 1984-85. Given hereunder is the summary of Pujara’s batting on all the five days at the Eden Gardens.DayRunsBallsNotes18*32 239*70 3515dismissed for 52 off 117 balls (1 inns)42*9 52042dismissed for 22 off 51 balls (2 inns) 0: The number of instances when Indian spinners could not claim a single wicket in a home match before the Kolkata Test match, thus providing the first ever such instance on Indian soil.Fewest wickets to fall to spinners in a Test match in IndiaWktsOversRunsOpponentVenueMonth, YearResult(Spinners & wickets)Wkts by pacers01021Sri LankaKolkataNov 2017Drawn(R. Ashwin 0, R. Jadeja 0)17170226EnglandChennaiFeb 1934Lost(Mushtaq Ali 1)16166191West IndiesChennaiJan 1949Lost(Vinoo Mankad 1, Ghulam Ahmed 0, Hemu Adhikari 0)812247PakistanKanpurDec 1979Drawn(Dilip Doshi 1, Shivlal Yadav 0)9141.3126EnglandMumbaiFeb 1980Lost(Dilip Doshi 1, Shivlal Yadav 0, Gundappa Viswanath 0)9Note: The 17 wickets in Kolkata (above) are the most claimed by Indian pacers in a Test match in India. This week in 19598 DecemberDwight D. Eisenhower became the first American President to witness a cricket Test match when he attended the Karachi Test between host Pakistan and Australia. The host managed to put on 104 runs for the loss of five wickets in 65 overs, during the entire day’s play! Queries CornerAs far as Ranji Trophy is concerned, Mumbai has been the most consistent team winning on more than 40 occasions. Do let me know the cricketer(s) to have been part of the winning team on most occasions? — G. Harish, BengaluruMumbai has so far won 41 Ranji Trophy titles, since its first win during the inaugural season of 1934/35. Ashok Mankad, from 1963/64 to 1975/76, was a part of the title winning playing XI on 12 occasions!When was the last time Indian spinners went wicket-less in both innings of a Test match before the recent instance against Sri Lanka at the Eden Gardens? — Siddartha Mulumudi, HyderabadThe last time Indian spinners went wicket-less in both innings of a Test match for India was in Johannesburg in December 2013 when the lone spinner R. Ashwin (6-0-25-0 & 36-5-83-0) and part-timer M. Vijay (1-0-3-0, 2nd innings) could not manage a single wicket. India drew the Test, when South Africa, chasing a target of 458, finished with 450/7 on the final day!How often have Indian openers put on a century stand after a zero in the first. In the Kolkata Test the first wicket fell before a run was scored in the first innings and the same openers put on 166 in the second. — Akhil Shetty, MysuruAfter losing a wicket off the very first ball in the first innings, the Indian opening pair K. L. Rahul and Shikhar Dhawan put on 166 in the second innings. I could find only one other such instance in Indian cricket. On that occasion too, India had lost its opening wicket before a run was scored. However, openers Sunil Gavaskar and Chetan Chauhan made amends by putting on 165 runs for the first wicket in the second innings against Australia at the MCG in February 1981. India managed to win the Test by 59 runs!When was the last time Bombay/Mumbai failed to reach the knockouts of the Ranji Trophy. — Milan Shirke, MumbaiThe last occasion was during the season of 2007/08, when it finished third with just 19 points behind Delhi & Saurashtra — both with 23 points from the Elite Group A. In recent times, it also failed to make it to the Ranji Trophy knockouts in 1977/78 and 1998/99.Note: All figures above are updated as on November 26, 2017Readers may send in their queries to sportstar@thehindu.co.in Subscribe to our daily newsletter Get your daily dose of Sportstar with handpicked stories delivered right to your inbox! SUBSCRIBE Please enter a valid email address.
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