Ind vs Aus, 1st Test: Day 4 highlights
A look at the stats highlights of the fourth day's play in the first Test between India and Australia at Bangalore on Sunday.
- India (360) posted their highest total in the last six Tests, bettering the 329 against Sri Lanka at Galle in 2008.
- Zaheer Khan (57 not out) registered his first fifty in India - his second Test fifty overall - his highest being 75 against Bangladesh at Dhaka in 2004-05. Interestingly, he top-scored for India in the first innings as well as faced most balls (121) than any other Indian batsman.
- Zaheer's previous highest in India was 30 against South Africa at Kanpur in 2004-05.
- Zaheer's outstanding innings is the highest by a Number nine batsman at M.Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore, eclipsing the 52 by England's Graham Dilley in 1981-82. Kiran More's innings of 46 against New Zealand in 1988-89 was the previous best by an Indian batsman at number nine position at this venue.
- Zaheer is now the fourth batsman to register a fifty as Number nine batsman against Australia, joining Karsan Ghavri (86 at Mumbai in 1979-80), Kiran More (67 not out at Melbourne in 1991-92) and Harbhajan Singh (63 at Sydney and 63 at Adelaide in 2007-08).
- Zaheer (5/91 + 57 not out) became the third Indian all-rounder to post a fifty and claim five wickets in an innings in a Test match against Australia. Rusi Surti (70 & 53 + 5 for 74) was the first to accomplish the feat in the 1967-68 Adelaide Test, followed by Kapil Dev (3/33 & 5/130 + 56) in the 1991-92 Adelaide Test.
- In the Indian innings, 52 runs were conceded as EXTRAS, which is a new record in the Tests involving India and Australia, eclipsing the 46 conceded by India in Australia's second innings of 369 at Chepauk, Chennai in 2004-05. Australia had twice conceded 45 runs in the shape of Extras in an innings against India - in India's total of 517 for 5 wickets declared at Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai in October 1986 and in India's 526 at Adelaide in January 2008.
- 23 leg-byes conceded by Australia is also a record against India, bettering the 21 in India's innings of 526 at Adelaide in January 2008. Similarly, 23 byes conceded by Australia is also a new record in India-Australia Tests.
- The Bangalore Test has so far produced 44 runs, bettering the previous record of 42 in the 2007-08 Adelaide Test.
- Australia, by conceding 52 runs as Extras in India's innings of 360, has equalled their worst ever performance in Test cricket. In England's innings of 309 at Brisbane in 1982-83, Australia had conceded 52 as extras.
- Shane Watson (3/45) produced his best bowling performance in Tests, outstripping his 1 for 25 against West Indies at Brisbane in November 2005.
- Matthew Hayden (13) is without a fifty in his last seven innings in India.
- Hayden, during the course of his innings of 13, became the first Australian to aggregate 800 runs in India - 806 at an average of 53.73 in eight Tests, including two centuries and three fifties.
- Overall, Hayden is the leading run-getter for Australia against India - 1667 at an average of 61.74 in 15 Tests, followed by Ricky Ponting - 1661 at an average of 50.33 in 20 Tests.
- Hayden has averaged 17.25 at M.Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore - 69 in four innings, with a highest of 30 in October 2004.
- Zaheer has now dismissed Hayden six times - in each innings of a Test match twice - Nagpur in 2004-05 and Bangalore in 2008-09.
- Ishant Sharma, for the first time, has claimed six wickets in a Test match (4/77 + 2/27) - bettering his 5 for 73 (3/55 + 2/18) in the 2007-08 Kanpur Test against South Africa.
- Shane Watson (32 not out) registered his highest ever score in Test Cricket, bettering his 31 against Pakistan at Sydney in January 2005.
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