Rohit hits the highest on debut at the Eden

Stats highlights from the second day's play of the Eden Gardens Test between India and West Indies

Shiva Jayaraman

07-Nov-2013

Shane Shillingford in his delivery stride, India v West Indies, 1st Test, Kolkata, 2nd day, November 7, 2013

Rohit's unbeaten 127 is the highest individual score on debut and the fifth hundred on debut at the Eden Gardens. Rohit's hundred was the 11th against West Indies and the fourth-highest score against them by a batsman on debut.

Rohit's hundred is the 14th by an India batsman on debut and the fourth-highest score, at present, by an India batsman on debut. Only Shikhar Dhawan (187 v Australia, Mohali, 2013), Gundappa Viswanath (137 v Australia, Kanpur, 1969) and Sourav Ganguly (131 v England, Lord's, 1996) have scored more on debut.

M Vijay's wicket was Shane Shillingford's 50th in Tests. Along with Sonny Ramadhin - who also got to the landmark in 11 Tests - he is the second-fastest West Indies spinner to 50 Test wickets. Alf Valentine, who took just eight Tests, is the fastest spinner to 50 wickets for West Indies. Click here for a list of bowlers fastest to 50 wickets in Tests.

Shillingford's four-wicket haul is only the ninth occasion of a West Indies spinner taking four or more wickets in an innings in Tests against India in India. Carl Hooper's five-wicket haul at Nagpur in 1994 was the last such occasion.

Ashwin's unbeaten 92 is his fifth score of fifty or more runs and his second-highest in Tests. His only hundred in Tests came against the same opposition, in Mumbai in 2011. Among India batsmen, only Kapil Dev (13) and Harbhajan Singh (7) have more fifty-plus scores in Tests batting at No. 8. With this innings, he has drawn level with MS Dhoni and Syed Kirmani, who also have five fifty-plus scores batting at No. 8 for India.

India's late middle-order made up for the rather shaky start to their innings: the 261 runs scored together by Rohit, Dhoni and Ashwin are the third-highest ever for India in Tests by their No.6, No. 7 and No.8 batsmen. Yuvraj Singh, Dinesh Karthik and Irfan Pathan added 295 runs in a Test against Pakistan in Bangalore in 2007, the highest added for India in Test by their batsman batting at No. 6 to 8. This was also only the sixth time in Tests that India's No. 6 to 8 hit 40 or more runs in an innings.

India's batsmen have been quite vulnerable against quality-spin bowling in the last couple of years. Out of the 18 innings in Tests in India since January 2012, opposition spinners have taken four or more wickets in an innings against India on ten occasions. Considering that the 51 wickets that spinners took in these innings have come at a strike rate of 42.7 and at an average of 20.90, India batsman have been dismissed cheaply to boot.

The 271 runs that were added by the partnerships between Rohit Sharma and MS Dhoni, and Rohit and R Ashwin is only the sixth time in Tests for India that 250 or more runs have been added by the sixth and the seventh wicket. The highest runs added for the sixth and seventh wickets for India are 307, also at the Eden Gardens, against South Africa in 2010.

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Shiva Jayaraman is sub-editor (stats) at ESPNcricinfo