Test Cricket: Virat Kohli has one international century more than Sachin Tendulkar after 500 matches | Cricket News – Times of India

Meanwhile Rohit Sharma has broken a record previously held by Mahela Jayawardene.
India might have been denied a 2-0 series sweep against the West Indies, but you won’t be denied a full list of all the interesting statistics that have emerged after the 2 match Test series in the Caribbean.

TimesofIndia.com here takes you through all those stats:
# India have played 25 Tests vs West Indies between October 2002 and July 2023 without losing, extending their record. They have won fifteen while the remaining ten could not produce results.
# With his 80 & 57 in the Port of Spain Test, Rohit Sharma has set a record for playing most consecutive double-digit scores (30) in Tests between February 5, 2021 and July 24, 2023, bettering Sri Lanka’s Mahela Jayawardene’s 29 between January 2001 and June 2002.
# For the first time, Rohit has posted a fifty-plus in each innings as captain in a Test match. His match aggregate of 137 is the most scored by him as captain.

Rohit Sharma (AP Photo)
# Having scored 103 in the first Test at Roseau, Rohit Sharma has posted 50-plus in three consecutive innings for the first time as captain. Hitherto, just one Indian captain had accomplished the feat in the Caribbean – Rahul Dravid – 68 not out at Basseterre and 81 & 68 at Kingston – all three innings in 2006.
# Rohit’s series aggregate of 240 (ave 80.00), including a hundred and two fifties, in three innings is his best performance as a captain in a Test rubber.
# Ishan Kishan has produced a strike rate of 152.94 during his fantastic unbeaten innings of 52 off 34 balls – the highest by any wicketkeeper in a fifty-plus knock vs the West Indies. The said innings had the third highest strike rate by a wicketkeeper -the top two being 172.88 (102 not out off 59 balls) by Adam Gilchrist for Australia vs England at Perth in 2006 and 161.29 (50 off 31 balls) by Rishabh Pant vs Sri Lanka at Bengaluru in 2022
# Since the commencement of the World Test Championship, Rohit, with 2092 runs at an average of 53.64. including seven hundreds and six fifties, in 25 Tests is the top run-getter for India.
# Siraj’s career-best performance is his second five-wicket haul in Tests – the first being 5 for 73 vs Australia at Brisbane in 2020-21

Ishan Kishan (AFP Photo)
# Siraj was adjudged the Man of the Match for recording his first five-wicket haul vs West Indies in Tests.
# Virat Kohli’s splendid 121 is his 29th hundred in Tests, including three vs West Indies – two in the Caribbean – the first being 200 at North Sound in 2016 which made him the first and only Indian captain till date to post a double hundred away from home.
# Kohli has become the fourth batter to register 25 hundreds playing at number four, joining Sachin Tendulkar (44), Jacques Kallis (35) and Mahela Jayawardene (30).
# With his century knock, Kohli has also become the first batter to produce a hundred in his 500th international match. His tally of 76 hundreds after 500 games is also a record, bettering Sachin Tendulkar’s 75.
# After a gap of 36 innings, Kohli has recorded an overseas Test hundred – his last being 123 vs Australia at Perth in December 2018.
# The break-up of Kohli’s Test hundreds is – 13 in wins, seven in defeats and nine in drawn games.

Virat Kohli (PTI Photo)
# Kohli’s average of 74.53 while scoring 1938 runs, including nine hundreds and five fifties, in 21 Tests is the highest among the Indian batters in drawn games (minimum 1500 runs).
# Kohli has recorded 12 international hundreds (9 in 41 innings in ODIs and 3 in 21 innings in Tests & 0 in 13 innings in T20Is) in 75 innings vs the West Indies. Just one batter had managed more vs the West Indies – 13 in 59 innings by Sunil Gavaskar. Jacques Kallis had posted 12 in 85 innings overall.
# Ravindra Jadeja has recorded his 19th Test fifty (62) – his third vs the West Indies and his highest in the Caribbean, eclipsing the 58 at North Sound in 2019.
# Kraigg Brathwaite has been dismissed by Ashwin in each innings of the Roseau and Port of Spain Tests. Overall, he has been dismissed by Ashwin eight times in eleven Tests – the most times a bowler has claimed his wicket.
# India took 12.2 overs to reach 100 – the least number of overs taken by a team to reach 100 in Tests, outstripping the 13.1 overs taken by Sri Lanka during their total of 555 for 5 wickets declared vs Bangladesh in the Asian Test Championship at Colombo (SSC) in 2001.

Ravichandran Ashwin (AFP Photo)
# Ravichandran Ashwin has taken his wickets’ tally to 75 at an average of 20.48 in 13 Tests to become the second spinner after Muttiah Muralitharan (82 at 19.62 in 12 Tests) to bag 75 wickets or more vs the West Indies.
# Ashwin has become the second Indian bowler after Kapil Dev (89 at 24.89 runs apiece in 25 Tests) to accomplish this feat vs the West Indies.
# With Kirk McKenzie’s wicket in the second innings of the Port of Spain Test, Ashwin and Jadeja became the second set of spinners to complete 500 wickets (combined) in Tests (49). McKenzie’s wicket was Ashwin’s 274th when he played with Jadeja, who at that time had 226 wickets. Anil Kumble (281) and Harbhajan Singh (220) – 501 wickets in 54 Tests – were the first spin combination to accomplish the feat in Test annals.
Stats Courtesy: Rajesh Kumar