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The numbers game - 1st Test, Day 1

December 11, 2008 18:57 IST

100 - Andrew Strauss became the 100th batsman in Test cricket history to aggregate 4,000 runs in a Test career.

65 - Runs scored by England in the last session while losing four wickets. They were 164 for one at the tea interval but ended the opening day of the first Test at 229 for five.

57 - Number of Test wickets taken by Harbhajan Singh this year. Only Dale Steyn (60) has taken more.

14 - Chennai Test is the 14th Test played by India this year -- most by any side.

0 - England have never lost a Test in which Strauss has scored a hundred. Of the previous 12 such occasions, England won eight and drew four.

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