Statistical highlights
Mohandas Menon
5th Test, Day 3 at Kingston
** VVS Laxman during his unbeaten knock of 65 runs reached an aggregate of
400 runs for the series and by the end of India's innings he had extended
his tally to 451 runs. Incidentally the last Indian batsman to aggregate
over 400 runs in a Test series abroad was Sachin Tendulkar when he scored
428 runs in the three match series in England in 1996.
Incidentally the last
Indian batsman before Laxman to aggregate over 450 runs in an away Test
series was Sanjay Manjrekar who had made 569 runs in 4 Tests in Pakistan in
1989.
** Playing in his 26th Test match Merv Dillon (5-71) recorded his best
bowling figures of his career. It was his only second five-wicket haul after
the 5-111 against Pakistan at Karachi in December 1997. Dillon's previous
best at home was the 4-32 against South Africa at this same ground in April
last year.
** Dillon now has 98 Test wickets - 49 each at home and away!
** This was the only second occasion the West Indies did not enforce the
follow-on against India in spite a lead of over 200 runs. The team from the
Caribbean also did not do so after gaining a huge lead of 278 runs at the
Corporation Stadium, Madras in January 1959. However they had won the match
by 295 runs!
** Brain Lara, has now been dismissed by a left-arm bowler on 30 occasions
in his Test career. Among West Indian batsmen only Clive Lloyd has been
dismissed by a left-arm bowler on more occasions - 41 times. Among
contemporary players only the Australian twins - Steve Waugh (32) and Mark
Waugh (31) - have been dismissed by left-arm bowlers on more occasions than
Lara.
** Playing in his 11th match and 16th innings, Shivnarine Chanderpaul (55
not out, when on 39) reached his 1000 Test runs against India. He becomes
the ninth West Indian and 24th batsman in history to reach this landmark
against India.
** For the first time in his Test career in 56 matches and 92 innings,
Chanderpaul (58 and 55 not out) has been able to record two scores over 50
in the same match. Incidentally the last West Indian batsman to achieve this
feat against India was Lara when he had scores of 83 & 78 at this same venue
in March 1997. The last one to achieve this against India was England's Mark
Butcher (51 & 92) at Ahmedabad in December 2001.
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