Statistical highlights
Mohandas Menon
3rd day of first Test at Georgetown, India vs West Indies
** West Indies' total of 501 was its highest against India at this venue
bettering the previous best of 470 it made in April 1983. Incidentally, this
was West Indies' 50th 500-plus total in Tests. The last occasion the team
reached a 500-plus total in a home Test was against England at St John's in
March 1998.
** This was also West Indies' 14th such score against India. The last time
the West Indies exceeded 500 runs against India was at Calcutta in December
1987 when it made 530-5 decl.
** The last occasion the West Indies lost all ten wickets after scoring over
500 runs against India was when it scored 526 in the Port of Spain Test
match way back in April 1971.
** The four Guyanese players in the side (Hooper 233, Chanderpaul 140,
Sarwan 53, Nagamootoo 15), who were the four top scorers in the West Indies
first innings, have made 441 runs between themselves, which is 88.02% of the
team's total of 501.
** Sourav Ganguly (5) has failed yet again with the bat while leading the
side. He now has 849 runs @ an average of 31.44 in 31 innings as captain. If
his three big innings against weaker opposition (84 v Bangladesh, 65* and
136 v Zimbabwe) are not considered his run aggregate as captain will be
reduced to 564 runs at a paltry average of 22.56.
** Sachin Tendulkar playing in his 50th away Test match of his career posted
his fourth fifty in the West Indies. During the previous tour in 1997 he had
three scores over fifty, without reaching the three figure mark - 88 at Port
of Spain, 92 at Bridgetown and 83 at Georgetown. Now in six Test matches in
the Caribbean Tendulkar has scored 368 runs (avg. 61.33).
** Tendulkar, has now been dismissed by a slow bowler in his last six Test
innings. Moreover he has also been dismissed "leg-before" in his last three
innings. His last six dismissals were:
v England at Ahmedabad - c Vaughan b Dawson 26
v England at Bangalore - st Foster b Giles 90
v Zimbabwe at Nagpur - c A Flower b Price 176
v Zimbabwe at Delhi - lbw b Price 36
v Zimbabwe at Delhi - lbw b Price 42
v West Indies at Georgetown - lbw Nagamootoo 79
** The unbeaten partnership of 93 runs between Rahul Dravid and VVS Laxman
was India's best for the fifth wicket at this venue obliterating the
previous best of 44 runs between Vijay Manjrekar and Polly Umrigar, way back
in March 1953.
- Day 1 stats
- Day 2 stats
