India vs West Indies: A statistical walk down memory lane spanning 75 years | Cricket News – Times of India

The next international assignment for the Indian men’s senior cricket team will be a 2 Test series against the West Indies in the Caribbean.
While Team India are ranked Number 1 in the ICC Test team rankings, the West Indies find themselves at Number 8. But beating the Windies at home is not going to be a walk in the park for Rohit Sharma and co.
Over the decades, India and the West Indies have played many memorable matches against each other in the longest format of the game.
TimesofIndia.com here takes a look at some of the most interesting historical statistics from the India vs West Indies Test rivalry, which began in 1948-49:
# Ninety eight Tests have been played between the two teams against each other overall. West Indies enjoy a win % of 30.61, winning 30 Tests as against 22.44% by India, winning 22. The remaining 46 Tests could not produce results.
# India have won twelve Tests out of the last seventeen played against the West Indies since June 30, 2006. The remaining five could not produce a result.
# West Indies’ last win over India in a Test match was at Kingston by 155 runs in May 2002.
# The last eight Test series between the two teams since 2002-03 have been won by India. In these eight series, India have won 14 Tests and drawn nine out of 23 played.
# India have won the four successive Tests (the last four) vs West Indies by huge margins – by an innings & 272 runs at Rajkot (their biggest against them); by 10 wickets at Hyderabad – both in October 2018; by 318 runs at North Sound and by 257 runs at Kingston – both in August/September 2019.
# In the 1958-59 Delhi Test, West Indies had posted 644 for eight wickets declared – their highest against India. India had registered 649 for nine wickets declared in the 2018-19 Rajkot Test – their highest against the West Indies.
# India have recorded five Test totals of less than 100 against the West Indies – their lowest being 75 in the 1987-88 Delhi Test while West Indies’ lowest vs India has been 100 in the 2019-20 North Sound Test.
# Rohan Kanhai’s career-best first-class score of 256 in the 1958-59 Kolkata Test remains the highest individual innings for the West Indies vs India. For India, Sunil Gavaskar‘s career-best Test score of 236 not out in the 1983-84 Chennai Test is the highest against the West Indies.
# West Indies (614/5 wickets declared) defeated India (124 & 154) by an innings and 336 runs in the December 1958 Kolkata Test – the biggest victory margin in Tests involving India and the West Indies.
# Jack Noreiga had produced a career-best 9 for 95 in the 1970-71 Port of Spain Test against India. Kapil Dev’s figures of 9 for 83 in the 1983-84 Ahmedabad Test are also his personal best.
# In the history of Test cricket, Kapil Dev remains the only captain to produce a nine-wicket haul in a Test innings.
# Sir Everton Weekes had scored 779 runs at an average of 111.28 in just seven innings, including four hundreds, in the 1948-49 five-Test series – it remains the most number of runs scored by any batsman in a Test series involving India and West Indies.
# For India, Sunil Gavaskar had scored 774 runs at an average of 154.80, including four hundreds, in four Tests in the 1970-71 series – an Indian record as well as a record by a batsman in his debut Test series.
# Kapil Dev had claimed 89 wickets at 24.89 runs apiece in 25 Tests, including four five-wicket hauls and one instance of ten wickets in a Test match – a record by any bowler in Tests involving India and West Indies.
# Malcolm Marshall had bagged 76 wickets at 21.98 runs apiece in 17 Tests – a West Indian record against India in Tests.
# Marshall’s tally of six five-wicket hauls vs India is a record by any bowler in Tests involving India and West Indies.
# Narendra Hirwani, on Test debut, had claimed 16 wickets for 136 runs in the 1987-88 Chennai Test – 8 for 61 and 8 for 75. His superb match performance is the best by any bowler in Tests involving India and West Indies.
# In the 1974-75 Chennai Test, Andy Roberts had captured 12 wickets for 121 runs – 7 for 64 & 5 for 57 – the best by a West Indian bowler vs India in a Test match.
# Virat Kohli enjoys 75.00% success as captain in Tests vs the West Indies, winning six and drawing the remaining two out of eight.
# The captain with most wins in India-West Indies Tests is Clive Lloyd – 10 wins, 3 defeats and seven drawn games out of 20 – winning % 50.00.
# Ishant Sharma remains the only Indian pacer to produce three five-wicket hauls in Tests in the Caribbean – 6 for 55 at Bridgetown & 5 for 77 at Dominica – both in 2011 and 5 for 43 at North Sound in 2019.
# During his 69 off 52 balls at St. John’s in 2006, Mahendra Singh Dhoni had hit six sixes – the most by an Indian batter in a Test innings against the West Indies.
# Jasprit Bumrah had registered a hat-trick in the 2019 Kingston Test by dismissing Darren Bravo, Shamarh Brooks and Roston Chase to become the only Indian bowler to achieve the distinction against the West Indies.
# At the age of 21 years 277 days, Sunil Gavaskar had posted 220 at Port of Spain in April 1971 – the youngest Indian at that time to accomplish the feat in Tests.
# With 120 in the first innings of the aforesaid Test, Gavaskar remains the only Indian batter to post a double century and a century in the same Test match.
# Sunil Gavaskar had scored 2,749 runs at an average of 65.45, including 13 hundreds and seven fifties, in 27 Tests. Both his aggregate and tally of hundreds remain records against the West Indies by any batter in Tests.
Stats Courtesy: Rajesh Kumar