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Younis creates a new record

By Rajneesh Gupta
January 27, 2006

The second Test between India and Pakistan at Faisalabad ended in a tame draw. However, it was a statistician's delight as lot of records were broken and new ones were established. We take a look at some of them.

The match aggregate of 1702 runs for the loss of 28 wickets is the highest run-aggregate in a Test between India and Pakistan and seventh highest in all Test cricket. The details:

Total-wkts Countries Venue Season
1981-35 SA v Eng Durban 1938-39
1815-34 WI v Eng Kingston 1929-30
1764-39 Aus v WI Adelaide 1968-69
1753-40 Aus v Eng Adelaide 1920-21
1747-25 Aus v Ind Sydney 2003-04
1723-31 Eng v Aus Leeds 1948
1702-28 Pak v Ind Faisalabad 2005-06

Pakistan's match aggregate of 1078 (588 + 490) is the second highest for a side in Test cricket after England's 1121 (for the loss of 19 wickets) at Kingston in 1929-30. It is, however, the highest in a five-day Test. The details:

Total-wkts Countries Venue Season
1121-19 Eng v WI Kingston 1929-30
1078-20 Pak v Ind Faisalabad 2005-06
1028-20 Aus v Eng The Oval 1934
1013-18 Aus v WI Sydney 1968-69
1011-29 SA v Eng Durban 1938-39

There were nine instances of bowlers conceding 100 runs or more in the second Test -- Irfan Pathan, Zaheer Khan, Harbhajan Singh and Anil Kumble (in both the innings) for India and Shoaib Akhtar, Mohammad Asif, Abdul Razzaq and Danish Kaneria for Pakistan.

This is now a new record of most instances of bowlers conceding 100 runs in a Test match. The previous record was of 8 instances as listed below:

100s Countries Venue Season
9 Pak v Ind Faisalabad 2005-06
8 Aus v Eng Sydney 1924-25
8 Eng v Aus Lord's 1930
8 SA v Eng Durban 1938-39
8 NZ v Ind Auckland 1989-90
8 Eng v Ind Lord's 1990
8 Aus v Ind Adelaide 2003-04

The first two Tests of the series have seen as many as 12 centuries -- 6 each at Lahore and Faisalabad. This equals the existing world record of most centuries in first two Tests of a series. Interestingly, the previous two occasions also involved India. The details:

Season Countries Venue Batsmen & Score
1990 Eng v Ind Lord's G Gooch - 333 & 123, A Lamb-139, R Smith-100*
R Shastri - 100, M Azharuddin - 121
Manchester G Gooch - 116, M Atherton - 131, R Smith -121*, A Lamb-109
M Azharuddin - 179, S Tendulkar - 119*
1997 SL v Ind Colombo RP N Sidhu -111, S Tendulkar -143, M Azharuddin -126
S Jayasuriya- 340, R Mahanama- 225, A de Silva -126
Colombo SSC A de Silva - 146 & 120, S Jayasuriya- 199
S Tendulkar- 139, S Ganguly- 147, M Azharuddin-108*
2005-06 Pak v Ind Lahore Younis Khan- 199, Mohd Yousuf- 173, S Afridi- 103, K Akmal- 102*
V Sehwag- 254, R Dravid- 128*
Faisalabad Inzamam-ul-Haq-119, S Afridi-156, Younis Khan- 194, Mohd Yousuf- 126
R Dravid- 103, M S Dhoni- 148

Younis Khan (194) failed to reach his double century for the second time in this series. He had been dismissed for 199 in Pakistan's only innings in the first Test at Lahore. Younis, thus, became the first batsman ever to register scores of 190s in successive Tests. England's Bill Edrich with scores of 189 and 191 in second and third Test against South Africa at Lord's and Manchester in 1947 has come closest to this record before Younis.

The 27 sixes in the match (18 by Pakistan and 9 by India) are a new world record, this obliterated the previous record of 23 sixes set by New Zealand and England in 2001-02 at Christchurch. The 18 sixes by the Pakistan batsmen also equalled the existing world record of most sixes by a side in a Test match. West Indies had hit the same number of sixes at St. John's in 1985-86 in a match remembered for Viv Richards's 56-ball hundred.

Rajneesh Gupta

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