Date-stamped : 03 Nov93 - 05:10

- Sunil Gavaskar's century was the second slowest by any Indian
batsman in Test cricket. He reached it in 429 minutes, eight 
minutes faster than Dilip Vengsarkar reached three figures 
against Pakistan in 1980.
- Gavaskar recorded the longest innings by any Indian batsman 
in first-class cricket when he made 172 in 708 minutes, beating
the 593 minutes which he himself spent in making 166 against 
Pakistan in 1980. Only Hanif Mohammed (970 minutes), Sir 
Leonard Hutton (797), R. B. Simpson (762) and R. M. Cowper (727)
have batted longer. It is also the longest innings in Indian 
first-class cricket, beating 219 in 645 minutes by K. C. Ibrahim
for Bombay v Baroda at Bombay in 1948-9. He was on the field for
all but four balls of the match.
- Gavaskar's 172 was the highest by any Test batsman at 
Bangalore,beating Clive Lloyd's 166 in 1974-5. He also came 
close to carrying his bat through a completed innings, which no
Indian has yet done in Test cricket.
- Derek Underwood, when dismissing Kirti Azad, surpassed Fred 
Trueman's record of 53 wickets as the most taken by an 
Englishman against India.
- Geoff Boycott's second innings took him past Colin Cowdrey's 
world record of 188 Test innings.
- Boycott's 50 was his 63rd Test innings of 50 or more, a world 
record. This was the 45th time that he top-scored in an England
innings.
- Keith Fletcher completed 3,000 runs in Test cricket when he 
reached 7 in England's first innings, in his 54th Test.
- Bob Taylor took his 100th catch in Test cricket when he caught
Vengsarkar.
- Syed Kirmani made his 50th Test appearance, in his home town 
of Bangalore. - Three Essex players appeared in an England Test 
team for the first time.

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