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October 10, 2002
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Statistical highlights

India vs West Indies - First Test, day 1

Mohandas Menon

  • West Indian Carl Hooper who made his Test debut at this very ground way back in December 1987, became the sixth West Indian and the 27th player overall to appear in 100 Test matches. Hooper in fact becomes the third player to make debut and appear in his 100th Test at the same venue. Australian Allan Border and Pakistani Javed Miandad made their debut and played their 100th Test at Melbourne and Lahore respectively. However Hopper's feat is unique since his was in an away Test match.

  • The partnership of 201 runs between Sanjay Bangar and Virender Sehwag was the best for India against the West Indies for the first wicket, which betters the previous best of 153 runs between Sunil Gavaskar and Chetan Chauhan at this very ground in December 1978.

  • The above partnership was also the best for the first wicket, not only at this ground, but in any Test matches at Bombay/Mumbai (including the only Test at the Gymkhana ground and 17 Tests at the Brabourne Stadium). The previous best was the 192 runs put on by Gavaskar and Chauhan against Australia in November 1979.

  • This was India's only fifth 200-plus partnership for the first wicket. The last time this was achieved by Indian openers was way back in February 1987 when Gavaskar and Kris Srikkanth put on exactly 200 runs against Pakistan at Chepauk.

  • This was the seventh 200-plus partnership against the West Indies in Tests. The last pair to do so was the Pakistani pair of Mohammad Wasim and Imran Nazir at Bridgetown in May 2000. They put on 219 runs.

  • The wicket of Bangar was Merv Dillon's 50th in 14 away Test matches.

  • Sehwag (147) playing in his 10th match recorded his third century and the highest score of his career. His previous highest was the 106 he made against England at Nottingham in August this year.

  • Sehwag also became the second Indian after Hemu Adhikari (114 not out at Delhi in November 1948) to register a century on first appearance against the West Indies.

  • Sachin Tendulkar, when on 14, became the third batsman after Rahul Dravid (1106 runs in 12 matches) and Englishman Michael Vaughan (1031 runs in 10 matches) to aggregate 1000-plus runs during this calendar year of 2002. Tendulkar now has 1021 runs in 12 matches.

  • Tendulkar, meanwhile, also took his tally of runs at the Wankhede Stadium to 666 runs in 6 matches. He went past the tally of 631 runs held by Dilip Vengsarkar in 10 matches. Now only Gavaskar 1122 runs in 11 matches has more runs than Tendulkar at this venue.





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