2024-09-22 17:02:23
Bangladesh lost the first Test against India by a huge margin of 280 runs. Although the bowlers showed their skills in the two innings, the batsmen have troubled Bangladesh. On the other hand, India showed complete professionalism at home and won the Chennai Test five sessions ago. Several records have been shared by the two teams in this match. Let’s take a look at them—
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Ravichandran Ashwin got a taste of Fifer in the second innings. This is his 37th five-wicket haul in Test cricket. In this format, this off-spinner jointly shared the record of the second highest wicket-taker. Shane Warne is next to him with 37 five wickets. Muttiah Muralitharan has taken the most five wickets in this format. Ashwin took his 37th five-wicket haul in 191 innings. Shane Warne reached this feat in 273 innings.
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Rishabh Pant scored a century in the second innings. Pant has surpassed Mahendra Singh Dhoni for scoring the highest century as a wicket-keeper batsman for India.
’38 years and 2 days’
Ashwin was 38 years and 2 days old when he played the Chennai Test. Ashwin became the oldest player to take five wickets in Test cricket for India. Earlier Vino Mankad was the oldest to take five wickets. He was then 37 years and 306 days old. He took five wickets against Pakistan in Peshawar in 1955.
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No one has done the feat of a century and a five-wicket haul at the same venue twice before. Ashwin did it cheaply. In addition to his century against England in 2021, Ashwin also took five wickets. This time he achieved the same feat against Bangladesh.
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Ashwin recorded a remarkable double of a century and five wickets for the fourth time. Only Sir Ian Botham is above him. He has done this record five times in Tests.
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Ashwin has the unique feat of getting a century and five wickets in the same match at the oldest age. Earlier, India’s Polly Umrigar scored 172 runs against the West Indies in Port of Spain at 36 years and 7 days and took five wickets.
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In the second innings, Ashwin got 6 wickets for 88 runs. This is his seventh fifer in the second innings of a Test. Jointly with Muralidharan in second place on record page. Rangana Herath is at the top. He got five wickets 12 times in the second innings.
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Jadeja scored 86 runs in the first innings. He got five wickets with the ball in two innings. The left-handed spin all-rounder has scored more than fifty runs and five or more wickets in 12 matches in Test cricket. Botham has achieved this feat 16 times. Shakib and Ashwin have 11 such achievements each.
‘২০০’
The milestone of 200 centuries against Bangladesh has been touched in this Test. Guy Whittall scored his first Test century against Bangladesh. In 2001, Zimbabwean opener Whital scored the century in Bulawayo in the first Test of Bangladesh’s tour of Zimbabwe. Pant made it a ‘double century’ in Chennai by scoring a century. The 200th century against Bangladesh was in the 145th Test.