Ashwin's joy at home, Kohli's Asian first, Mayank's six-fest

Mayank Agarwal's great run with the bat continued during the 2-0 home series win over Bangladesh, while R. Ashwin and Virat Kohli, too, notched up records.

Mayank Agarwal scored his second double hundred of his career.

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The number of bowlers who have claimed 250 Test wickets at home, R. Ashwin being the latest to achieve this in the Indore Test match against Bangladesh. By doing so in his 42nd Test match, he is the joint fastest with Sri Lankan Muttiah Muralitharan. However, Ashwin needed about 1,500 balls less than Murali and also did it in the quickest time – eight years, nine days.

Fewest Tests reach 250 wickets at home

Matches	Bowler	Country	Achieved on	Balls required	Runs conceded	Wickets	Average	Strike rate	Time taken
42	R. Ashwin	India	November 14, 2019	12,439	5,731	251	22.83	49.56	8 years, 9 days
42	M. Muralitharan	Sri Lanka	January 7, 2002	14,169	5,406	251	21.54	56.45	9 years, 4 months, 13 days
43	Anil Kumble	India	October 16, 2004	13,936	5,596	253	22.12	55.08	14 years, 2 months, 11 days
44	Rangana Herath	Sri Lanka	July 14, 2017	12,754	5,751	252	22.82	50.61	17 years, 9 months, 24 days
49	Dale Steyn	South Africa	January 5, 2019	9,968	5,332	253	21.08	39.40	14 years, 20 days
51	Harbhajan Singh	India	November 13, 2010	15,903	7,104	253	28.08	62.86	12 years, 7 months, 22 days
56	Shane Warne	Australia	December 26, 2004	15,506	6,562	252	26.04	61.53	12 years, 11 months, 26 days
56	Glenn McGrath	Australia	November 4, 2005	13,134	5,443	251	21.69	52.33	11 years, 11 months, 24 days
58	James Anderson	England	August 17, 2014	13,275	6,597	250	26.39	53.20	11 years, 2 months, 29 days
63	Stuart Broad	England	August 29, 2017	13,166	6,777	250	27.11	52.66	9 years, 8 months, 22 days

Note: The bowling figures above are updated to the end of the innings in which the bowler claimed his 250th home wicket.

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The number of innings Mayank Agarwal required to register two Test double centuries in his budding career, doing so in the Indore Test match and making him only the second batsman in Tests to do so in fewer than 13 innings. The only batsman to do so quicker is another Indian, Vinod Kambli, who hit double centuries in the fourth and fifth innings of his career in 1993. Aussie legend Don Bradman needed 13 innings to hit is first two double hundreds.

Fewest innings to reach two Test double hundreds

Innings	Batsman	Country	First Test hundred	Second Test hundred
5	Vinod Kambli	India	224 vs England, February 1993 (4th innings)	227 vs Zimbabwe, March 1993 (5th innings)
12	Mayank Agarwal	India	215 vs South Africa, October 2019 (8th innings)	243 vs Bangladesh, November 2019 (12th innings)
13	Don Bradman	Australia	254 vs England, June 1930 (11th innings)	334 vs England, July 1930 (13th innings)
14	Lawrence Rowe	West Indies	214 vs New Zealand, February 1972 (1st innings)	320 vs England, March 1974 (14th innings)
15	Graeme Smith	South Africa	200 vs Bangladesh, October 2002, (5th innings)	277 vs England, July 2003 (15th innings)
16	Walter Hammond	England	251 vs Australia, December 1928 (15th innings)	200 vs Australia, December 1928 (16th innings)
18	Chetestwar Pujara	India	206* vs England, November 2012 (9th innings)	204 vs Australia, March 2013 (18th innings)
19	Adam Voges	Australia	269* vs West Indies, December 2015 (17th innings)	239 vs New Zealand, February 2016 (19th innings)

Note: Bradman had four double centuries in his first 18 innings and Smith had three in his first 17 innings.

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The number of batsmen who have hit eight or more sixes while opening a Test innings, Mayank Agarwal during his 243 at Indore being the latest. He emulated Navjot Sidhu to become the second Indian batsman with most sixes – eight – in an innings.

Most sixes in a Test innings by an opening batsman

Sixes	Batsman	Score	Country	Opponent	Venue	Month/year	Result
11	Matthew Hayden	380	Australia	Zimbabwe	Perth	October 2003	Won
11	Brendon McCullum	202	New Zealand	Pakistan	Sharjah	November 2014	Won
9	Chris Gayle	333	West Indies	Sri Lanka	Galle	November 2010	Drawn
8	Navjot Sidhu	124	India	Sri Lanka	Lucknow KDS	January 1994	Won
8	Mayank Agarwal	243	India	Bangladesh	Indore	November 2019	Won

 

Most sixes in a Test innings by Indian batsmen

Sixes	Batsman	Score	Against	Venue	Month/year	Result
8	Navjot Sidhu+	124	Sri Lanka	Lucknow KDS	January 1994	Won
8	Mayank Agarwal+	243	Bangladesh	Indore	November 2019	Won
7	Virender Sehwag+	293	Sri Lanka	Mumbai BS	December 2009	Won
7	Harbhajan Singh	111*	New Zealand	Hyderabad RGS	November 2010	Drawn
7	Hardik Pandya	108	Sri Lanka	Pallekele	August 2017	Won
7	Rohit Sharma+	127	South Africa	Visakhapatnam	October 2019	Won

+ Openers

R. Ashwin reached 250 Test wicket at home in his 42nd match.

 

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The number of Test victories by an innings under the captaincy of Virat Kohli. He achieved this landmark when India won by an innings and 130 runs against Bangladesh at Indore, making him the first Asian captain to do so and the seventh overall. Incidentally, the previous Asian record of nine innings victories was held by M. S. Dhoni (2009-2013).

Most innings victories as Test captain

Instances	Captain	Country	Total Tests	Period
22	Graeme Smith	South Africa	109	2003-13
14	Steve Waugh	Australia	57	1999-2003
12	Peter May	England	41	1955-59
11	Clive Lloyd	West Indies	74	1974-84
11	Stephen Fleming	New Zealand	80	1997-2005
11	Andrew Strauss	England	50	2006-11
10	Virat Kohli	India	52	2016-19

 

Queries Corner Don Bradman has 117 first-class centuries. Could you list all his landmark centuries – his first, 25th, 50th, 100th – with results? – S. Rajan, Nagpur 1st 118 New South Wales South Australia Adelaide December 17, 1927 Lost by 1 wicket 25th 121 New South Wales South Australia Sydney November 8, 1930 Won by 213 runs 50th 149* Australians England XI Folkestone September 4, 1934 Drawn 75th 104 Australians Gentlemen of England Lord’s June 15, 1938 Won by 282 runs 100th 172 Australians Indians Sydney November 15, 1947 Lost by 47 runs 117th 123 DG Bradman’s XI AL Hassett’s XI Melbourne December 4, 1948 Tied   How often has South Africa lost all three Tests in a series? – Kiran Vartak, Nashik South Africa has now been whitewashed in a series of three or more Tests on six occasions, which includes a five-match series in Australia in 1931-32. The rest of the five series were of three Tests. 0-3 England Home 1895-96 0-3 England England 1912 0-5 Australia Australia 1931-32 0-3 Australia Australia 2001-02 0-3 Australia Home 2005-06 0-3 India India 2019-20

 

Note: All figures above are updated as of November 20, 2019.