Adrian Barath: Youngest Centurion and also on debut

West Indian debutant Adrian Barath have made memorable appearance in test cricket with a brilliant hundred against Australia at Brisbane on Saturday. Although his 132-ball 104 may not save West Indies losing the first test of the series but his effort will be remembered for long time.
Barath, 19 years and 228 day, becomes the youngest centurion for the Caribbean and break the 79 year old record set by The Black Bradman George Headley on 15 January 1930 at Bridgetown against England by scoring 176 at the age of 20 years & 230 days.
No one from West Indies scored a hundred below the age of 20. Thus Barath became the youngest of all of them.
With this century he became 85th in test history and 12th West Indian to do so on debut test match. George Headley was the first batsman from West Indies to score a hundred on debut. The others are.
AG Ganteaume (only test) 112, Vs England, Port of Spain, 1947-48
BH Pairaudeau 115, VS India, Port of Spain, 1952-53
DG Smith, 104, Vs Australia, Kingston, 1954-55
CC Hunte, 142, VS Pakistan, Bridgetown, 1957-58
Lawrence Rowe, 214 &100*, Vs New Zealand, Kingston, 1971-72
Alvin Kallicharan, 100*, Vs New Zealand, Georgetown, 1971-72
Gordon Greenidge, 107, Vs India, Bangalore, 1974-75
L Baichan, 105*, Vs Pakistan, Lahore, 1974-75
AB Williams, 100, Vs Australia, Georgetown, 1977-78
DR Smith, 105*, VS South Africa, Cape Town, 2003-04

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Century of Victory for India

With an Innings & 144 runs win over Sri Lanka at Kanpur on Friday India completed century of victory in test history. Thus India became the 6th Nations to win more then 100 test.
The others are :
Australia 332 ( 713 test)
England 310 (891)
West Indies 152 (459)
South Africa 120 (344)
Pakistan 103 (340)
India 100 (432)

India’s performance against each team

Opponents, Match, won, lost, drawn, tied
Australia, 76, 18, 34, 23, 1
Bangladesh 5, 4, 0, 1, 0
England 99, 19, 34, 46, 0
New Zeland 47, 15, 9, 23, 0
Pakistan 59, 9, 12, 38, 0
South Africa 22, 5, 10, 7, 0
Sri Lanka 31, 12, 5, 14, 0
West Indies 82, 11, 30, 41, 0
Zimbabwe 11, 7, 2, 2, 0

This was 26th innings victory for India in Test career and 7th against Sri Lanka.The biggest win for India at home is an innings & 219 runs against Australia at Kolkata in 1997-98 while they beat Bangladesh by an innings & 239 runs at Mirpur in 2007.
India have won 18 times by an innings margin at home so far.

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100 by TOP three batsmen in an innings

Gautam Gambhir (167), Virender Sehwag (131) and Rahul
Dravid (144) - the top three players for India have registered
Centuries at Kanpur against Sri Lanka in the second test, providing the third instance when No 1, 2 and 3 have posted centuries in the same innings for India, equalling
Australia's tally of three such instances.
Against Bangladesh in the 2007 Mirpur Test, the top
four Indian batsmen had made centuries - Dinesh Karthik (129),
Wasim Jaffer (138 not out), Rahul Dravid (129) and Sachin
Tendulkar (122 not out). The said instance is the only one in
Test annals when the top four batsmen have made centuries in
the same Test innings.

Here is the list of all instances when top three or four batsmen have made hundred in a same test innings.
England Vs S Africa at Lord’s 1924
Jack Hobbs 211, Herbert Sutcliff (122) and Frenk Woolley (134*)
Australia Vs West Indies at Port of Spain 1954-55
CC McDonald (110), Arthur Morris (111) and Neil Harvey (133)
Australia Vs West Indies at Bridgetown 1964-65
Bill Lawary (210), Bob Simpson (201) and Bob Cowper (102)
India Vs Australia at Sydney 1985-86
Sunil Gavaskar (172), K Srikkanth (116) and Mohinder Amarnath (138)
Australia Vs England at Lord’s 1993
Mark Taylor (111), Michael Slater (152) and David Boon (164*)
South Africa Vs Zimbabwe at Harare 2001-02
HH Gibbs (147), Gary Kirsten (220) and JH Kallis (157*)
New Zealand Vs India at Mohali 2003-04
Mark Richardon (145), Lou Vincent (106) and Scott Styris (119)
India Vs Bangladesh at Mirpur 2007
Dinesh Karthik (129), Wasim Jaffer (138*), Rahul Dravid (129) and Sachin
Tendulkar (122*).
South Africa Vs England at Lord’s 2008
Greame Smith (107), Neil McKenzie (138) and Hashim Amla (104*)
India Vs Sri Lanka at Kanpur 2009-10
Gautam Gambhir (167), Virender Sehwag (131) and Rahul Dravid (144).

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Daniel Vettori in 99 club

New Zealand captain Daniel Vettori dismissed on 99 against Pakistan on Wednesday during the first cricket test ad Dunedin. He becomes the 8th batsmen in nine instances for New Zealand to become the victim of 99.
JEF Back (Vs South Africa, 1953-54), Richard Hadlee (Vs England, 1983-84), Deepak Patel (Vs England, 1991-92), John Wright (Vs Australia, 1987-88 & Vs England, 1991-92), Stephen Fleming (Vs South Africa, 2000-01), Mark Richardson (Vs Zimbabwe, 2000-01) and Brendon McCullum (Vs Sri Lanka, 2004-05) and are the others to do so for New Zealand.
This was the 77th instance when a batsman scored 99 in test history. There are 8 batsmen who have done this twice in their career and 5 of them remained not out on 99. There are also 13 batsmen who have run out on 99.

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BULK of records at Kanpur

With Virender Sehwag and Gautam Gambhir posted brilliant centuries India cruised to a mammoth score of 417 for 2 wickets at the Green Park stadium, Kanpur on Tuesday against Sri Lanka in the second cricket test. The day completely dominated by the Indians.
In the process India created some interesting records.
417 runs are the highest score by Indian team on day one of any test match and also highest total for any day of the test match.
In the previous test at Ahmedabad India posted 6 for 385 on the first day now India overtook that score.
List of most runs on a first day of a test (India).

2/417, Vs Sri Lanka, Kanpur, 2009-10
6/385, Vs Sri Lanka, Ahmedabad, 2009-10
9/375, Vs New Zealand, Wellington, 2008-09
7/372, Vs South Africa, Bloemfontein, 2001-02
6/365, Vs Pakistan, Bangalore, 2007-08

Most runs in any day of a test (India)

2/417, 1st day, Vs Sri Lanka, Kanpur, 2009-10
1/386, 2nd day, Vs South Africa, Chepauk, 2007-08
6/385, 1st day, Vs Sri Lanka, Ahmedabad, 2009-10
378, 2nd day, Vs England, The Oval, 1936
9/375, 1st day, Vs New Zealand, Wellington, 2008-09

This was the 6th occasion when both openers scored hundred in the same innings for India.
The list is here.
Vijay Merchant (114) & S Mushtaq Ali (112) Vs England, Manchester, 1936
Vinoo Mankad (231) & Pankaj Roy (173) Vs New Zealand, Chennai, 1955-56
Sunil Gavaskar (172) & K Srikkanth (116) Vs Australia, Sydney, 1985-86
V Sehwag (254) & Rahul Dravid (128*), Vs Pakistan, Lahore, 2005-06
Dinesh Karthik (129) & Wasim Jaffer (138*) Vs Bangladesh, Mirpur, 2007


4 consecutive hundred by Gautam Gambhir

With the century at Kanpur Gautam Gambhir became only 3rd batsmen for India to have scored 4 consecutive 100 in test matches.
Gambhir score 137 at Napier and 167 at Wellington when India toured New Zealand in March-April this year and after that he scored 114 at Ahmedabad last week. Now he has scored 167 at Kanpur. Only Sunil Gavaskar and Rahul Dravid have done it before Gambhir. Gavaskar scored 108 against England at The Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai in 1976-77 and then went on to score 113 at Brisbane, 127 at Perth and 118 at Melbourne against Australia in 1977-78 series down under.
Rahul Dravid scored 115 at Trent Bridge, 148 at Leeds and 217 at The Oval in 2002 and then 100* at The Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai against West Indies in October 2002.


Partnership for the first wicket

Sehwag and Gambhir have put on 233 runs for the first wicket in this match. This is the 3rd best first wicket partnership for India. Vinoo Mankad and Pankaj Roy have added 413 runs against New Zealand at Chennai in 1955-56 and Sehwag and Dravid have put on 410 against Pakistan at Lahore in 2005-06.

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ONLY FIVE WIN AT KANPUR

India and Sri Lanka will play second test match of the series at the Green Park, Kanpur from tomorrow and both will try to win this match to get lead in the series. India’s record in Kanpur is not too bright with the fact take into consideration that the home team playing here since 1951-52 and were able to win only five test matches here.
India lost to England in 1951-52 (the series when India won the test first time in the history) at Kanpur by playing first time here. First time India won here in 1959-60 when Jasu Patel scalped 14 wickets in a match against Richie Benaud’s Australian team.
In all Indian team has played 20 test matches at the Green Park, Kanpur but managed to win only five of them and lost 3 of them.
However since 1983-84 India never lost a test at Kanpur in 6 matches they have won 3 and all other matches ended in a draw.
*** This will be the 1934th test in the history
*** This will be India’s 432nd and Sri Lanka’s 191st test match.
*** India has won 99 and lost 126 test so far while Sri Lanka has won 60 and lost 67 so far.



Venue records

Highest total
7/676 by India Vs Sri Lanka in 1986-87

Lowest total
121 by South Africa Vs India in 2007-08
Highest score
250 by SFAF Bachus West India Vs India 1978-79
For India: 199 by M Azharuddin, Vs Sri Lanka 1986-87

Most runs
776 by GR Viswanath in 7 matches, 12 innings, 176 Hs, 86.22 Avg., 3x100, 4x50

Best bowling in an innings
9 for 69 by Jasu Patel India Vs Australia, 1959-60

Best bowling in a match
14 for 124 by Jasu Patel India Vs Australia, 1959-60

Most wickets
25 by Kapil Dev in 7 matches.

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Dravid: Only second nervous nineties in Ranji

Mr. Wall Rahul Dravid has been out for 15 times into nervous nineties in his entire first class career but only twice in Ranji Trophy and first time since 1997. On Tuesday Dravid out on 97 against Uttar Pradesh in the Ranji Trophy match for Karnataka at Meerut.
This has happened for him exactly after 12 years. Earlier he scored 99 runs for Karnataka against Hyderabad in November 1997. However he failed to convert 100 for 10 times after reaching 90s in test cricket.
Dravid’s first nervous ninety was in October 1993 when he was out on 93 for Rest of India against then Ranji champions Punjab.
He has been twice done it for Kent in English county season 2000. Interestingly both time against Somerset and both time in June 2000.
Rahul Dravid in nervous nineties.
93 Rest of India Vs Punjab, 1993-94
95 India Vs England, 1996 (debut)
92 India Vs West Indies, 1997
99 Karnataka Vs Hyderabad, 1997-98
92 India Vs Sri Lanka, 1997-98
93 India Vs Sri Lanka, 1997-98
90 Kent Vs Somerset, 2000
95 Kent Vs Somerset, 2000
91 India Vs West Indies, 2002
92 India Vs Australia, 2003-04
91* India Vs Australia, 2003-04
98 India Vs Zimbabwe, 2005-06
95 India Vs England, 2005-06
93 India Vs Australia, 2007-08
97 Karnataka Vs Uttar Pradesh, 2009-10

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