2024-09-30 22:12:22
Two and a half days of the Kanpur Test were washed away by rain. Only two days left to play. Maybe no one thought about winning this test in the last two days. But India thought, thought their captain Rohit Sharma.
Therefore, in response to Bangladesh’s 233 runs, they came down to bat in the first innings and started a devastating batting. Their devastating batting loss in Test cricket also suits T20. Several records including the fastest fifth, fastest hundred, half hundred, double hundred were made in India’s innings of 285 runs in 34.4 overs. Let’s take a look at them.
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India scored 100 runs in just 10.1 overs. Which is the fastest in the history of Test cricket according to the available data. Before this, no team could cross 100 runs in Tests by playing so few balls. Earlier India scored 100 runs in 12.2 overs against West Indies. Today they broke that and made a new record.
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After crossing 100 in 10.1 overs, India reached 200 in 24.2 overs. Which is the fastest in the history of Test cricket. Before them, Australia scored 200 runs in 28.1 overs in the second innings against Pakistan in Sydney in 2017.
Not only that, India also broke the records for fastest 150 and fastest 250 today. India scored 150 runs in 21.1 overs against West Indies in 2023. 150 today in 18.2 overs. And in 2022, England scored 250 runs in 34 overs in Rawalpindi. And India scored 250 runs in 30.1 overs today.
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Today, India completed the team’s 50 runs in just 3 overs and 18 balls. Which is the fastest in the history of Test cricket. Earlier this year against the West Indies, England reached the milestone of 50 runs in 4.2 overs.
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Earlier, India had never scored 50 runs in 20 balls. In the last 2023 Asian Games, India scored 50 runs in 3.4 overs against Bangladesh in T20 format.
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India averaged 8.22 runs per over against Bangladesh today. Which is the highest in the history of Test cricket with minimum 200 balls played. England averaged 7.36 against Pakistan in the 2022 Rawalpindi Test. England scored 264 in 35.5 overs.
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The opening pair of Rohit Sharma and Yasswi Jaiswal scored 55 runs off just 23 balls to start the innings. Then their run rate was 14.34. It is the fastest fifty-run partnership with the highest run-rate in the history of men’s Test cricket. Earlier this year, England’s Ben Duckett and Ben Stokes scored 50 runs at a rate of 11.86 against the West Indies. The two of them added 87 runs off 44 balls in the opening pair.
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In an innings of 285 runs, 5 Indian batsmen scored more than 20 runs at a strike rate of more than 100. Which is the joint highest strike rate in the history of men’s Test cricket. In Rawalpindi Test in 2022, 5 England batsmen played an innings with a strike rate of more than 100 runs.
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India has hit 96 sixes in eight Tests this year. The highest of any party in a calendar year. They broke England’s record in this journey. In 2022, England hit a record of 89 sixes in a year.
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Only three batsmen in the history of Test cricket have hit sixes off the first two balls of a bowler. Today, Rohit Sharma also made it to the list after hitting Khaled Ahmed’s first two ball sixes.
Fofie Williams hit Jim Laker’s first two balls for a six in the 1948 Barbados Test. Then in the 2013 Chipak Test, Sachin Tendulkar hit a six off Nathan Lyon’s two balls. Umesh Yadav hit two consecutive sixes off George Lind in the 2019 Ranchi Test.
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Bangladesh pacer Hasan Mahmud scored 50 runs in 4.5 overs today. Before that, Graeme Cramer scored 50 runs in 4.2 overs against South Africa in 2005 and Murali Karthik scored 50 runs in 4.4 overs against Australia in 2004.
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Today, India announced the innings by scoring 285 runs in 34.4 overs. This is the fifth shortest over in the history of men’s Test cricket. India had never before declared an innings of 285 in the first innings. It was a precedent for declaring their innings at the lowest run.