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The numbers game - 1st Test, Day 2

December 12, 2008 20:24 IST

309 - Number of Test wickets taken by Harbhajan Singh [ Images ], same as that of West Indian Lance Gibbs. Among the off-spinners only Muttiah Muralitharan [ Images ] (756) has taken more.

29.23 - Dravid's batting average since he relinquished captaincy.

15 - Number of overs bowled by Yuvraj Singh [ Images ] - most he has ever bowled in a Test innings. He had previously bowled 11 overs against South Africa [ Images ] at Kanpur earlier this year

11 - Sachin Tendulkar [ Images ] became only the 11th batsman in Test annals to aggregate 2,000 runs against two opponents. His 2,748 against Australia [ Images ] is now followed by 2,031 against England [ Images ]. Tendulkar is only the second Indian batsman to do so after Sunil Gavaskar [ Images ] (who performed this feat against three opponents - England, West Indies [ Images ] and Pakistan).

4 - The four caught and bowled dismissals provided only the fourth such instance on India [ Images ]n       soil. The record is of five c&b - between India and New Zealand [ Images ] at Nagpur in 1969-70. The world record is of six such dismissals - between England and Australia at Lord's in 1890.

2 - Graeme Swann [ Images ] became only the second bowler to take two wickets in his first over in Test cricket (dismissed Gautam Gambhir [ Images ] off his third ball and Rahul Dravid [ Images ] off his sixth ball). The only other bowler to perform this feat is another Englishman Richard Johnson (v Zimbabwe at Chester-le-Street in 2003).