Kohli equals Tiger & Sunny's records

Rajneesh Gupta's fascinating figures from the Kolkata Test.

India registered a resounding 178 run win over New Zealand at the Eden Gardens, Kolkata, taking an unbeatable 2-0 lead against the visitors in the three-Test series.

The win enabled India to ascend the No 1 spot in the ICC Test rankings, dislodging Pakistan.

Important takeaways from the win:

The Test was India's 250th Test at home.

A chronology of India's milestone Tests.

India's milestone Tests at home

Test #	Opponent	Venue	Year	Captain	Result (for India)
1st	England	Bombay Gymkhana	1933	C K Nayudu	Lost by 9 wickets
50th	England	Delhi	1964	Mansur Ali Khan 'Tiger' Pataudi	Drawn
100th	Pakistan	Bangalore	1979	Sunil Gavaskar	Drawn
150th	Zimbabwe	Delhi	1993	Mohammed Azharuddin	Won by an innings and 13 runs
200th	Pakistan	Kolkata	2005	Sourav Ganguly	Won by 195 runs
250th	New Zealand	Kolkata	2016	Virat Kohli	Won by 178 runs

For a change, India's win was not dominated by the spinners as Mohammad Shami and Bhuvneshwar Kumar took 12 wickets.

There has been only one Test win at home in which Indian pacers got more wickets than the spinners. The details:

Most wickets taken by Indian pacers in a win at home

Wkts	Runs	Avg	Vs	Venue	Season
15	376	25.06	Pakistan	Chennai	1979-1980
12	155	12.91	England	Mumbai	1981-1982
12	192	16.00	New Zealand	Kolkata	2016-2017
11	171	15.54	West Indies	Kolkata	2013-2014
11	177	16.09	West Indies	Chennai	1978-1979
11	242	22.00	Australia	Mohali	2010-2011
11	304	27.63	Zimbabwe	Delhi	2000-2001

This India-New Zealand series has seen an unusually large number of LBW dismissals.

As many as 11 LBW decisions were given in the Kanpur Test. 15 more such dismissals (a new record in India) at the Eden Gardens took the series tally to 26 -- the highest ever in a three-match series in India.

The previous record was 24 in the India-South Africa series in 1996-1997.

Most number of LBW dismissals in a series in India.

LBWs	Dismissals	%	Series
26	75	34.66	India v New Zealand, 2016-2017*
24	110	21.81	India v South Africa, 1996-1097
23	80	28.75	India v Pakistan, 1998-1999**
20	100	20.00	India v New Zealand, 1988-1989
20	89	22.47	India v Sri Lanka, 2005-2006
20	87	22.98	India v New Zealand, 2010-2011
20	101	19.80	India v West Indies, 2011-2012

* series still not ended

** two-match series

Most LBW dismissals in a Test in India

LBWs	Dismissals	%	Teams	Venue	Season
15	40	37.50	India v New Zealand	Kolkata	2016-2017
13	40	32.50	India v South Africa	Ahmedabad	1996-1997
12	40	30.00	India v Pakistan	Chennai	1998-1999

Wriddhiman Saha played a crucial part in India's success by being the highest scoring batsman in the match from the either side.

Saha's twin-fifties in the match made him only the fourth Indian Indian wicket-keeper to score fifties in both innings of a Test, joining Dilawar Hussain, Farokh Engineer and M S Dhoni. Dhoni has done so four times.

Indian wicket-keepers scoring fifties in both innings of a Test

'Keeper	Inns1	Inns2	Opposition	Venue	Season
Dilawar Hussain	59	57	England	Kolkata	1933-1934
Farokh Engineer	121	66	England	Bombay (Brabourne Stadium)	1972-1973
M S Dhoni	92	68*	Australia	Mohali	2008-2009
M S Dhoni	56	55	Australia	Nagpur	2008-2009
M S Dhoni	52	56*	New Zealand	Wellington	2008-2009
M S Dhoni	77	74*	England	Birmingham	2011
Wriddhiman Saha	54*	58*	New Zealand	Kolkata	2016-2017

Ravichandran Ashwin completed the all round double of 1,500 runs and 200 wickets in Test cricket.

In doing so in 38 Tests, Ashwin became the quickest to reach this mark.

Ashwin needed two Tests fewer than Ian Botham, who held the record previously.

Fastest to allround double of 1,500 runs and 200 wickets

Test	Player	Bat Avg	Bowling Average
38th	Ravichandran Ashwin	33.55	25.14
41st	Ian Botham	32.41	21.21
44th	Richard Hadlee	24.26	25.83
45th	Imran Khan	28.07	23.81
49th	Richie Benaud	24.48	24.73
49th	Shaun Pollock	27.15	20.26
50th	Kapil Dev	32.26	29.33

The figures are at the end of the Test in which the milestone was achieved.

Ashwin has now taken 139 wickets in 20 home Tests, which takes him ahead of Bishen Singh Bedi's tally of 137 wickets at home.

Now only four bowlers -- Anil Kumble, Harbhajan Singh, Kapil Dev and Bhagwat Chandrasekhar -- have taken more wickets than Ashwin at home.

Indian bowlers with most wickets at home

	Matches	Wickets	Average	5I	10M
Anil Kumble	63	350	24.88	25	7
Harbhajan Singh	55	265	28.76	18	4
Kapil Dev	65	219	26.49	11	2
Bhagwat Chandrasekhar	32	142	27.69	8	1
Ravichandran Ashwin	21	140	21.26	14	4
Bishen Singh Bedi	30	137	23.99	8	0
Javagal Srinath	32	108	26.61	5	1
Zaheer Khan	38	104	35.87	3	0
Vinoo Mankad	23	103	26.53	4	2
Pragyan Ojha	20	101	27.51	7	1

With hardly anyone noticing it, Virat Kohli has gone ahead of Rahul Dravid and equalled Tiger Pataudi and Sunil Gavaskar’s tally of wins as captain. Now only MS Dhoni, Sourav Ganguly and Mohammad Azharuddin have won more Tests than Virat for India.

Virat is yet to lose a Test at home.... in fact he is yet to lose a toss at home!!!

Virat’s record as Test captain

	Mts	Won	Lost	Drawn	Win%
at home	6	5	0	1	83.33
away	10	4	2	4	40.00
overall	16	9	2	5	56.25

India's most successful captains (in terms of wins)

	Matches	Won	Lost	Drawn	Win%
M S Dhoni	60	27	18	15	45.00
Sourav Ganguly	49	21	13	15	42.86
Mohammad Azharuddin	47	14	14	19	29.79
Virat Kohli	16	9	2	5	56.25
Mansur Ali Khan 'Tiger' Pataudi	40	9	19	12	22.50
Sunil Gavaskar	47	9	8	30	19.15
Rahul Dravid	25	8	6	11	32.00

Virat Kohli has not suffered a single defeat in his last 12 Tests as captain.

Among all the Indian captains only three have a longer undefeated streak. Take a look:

Longest unbeaten streaks for Indian captains

Tests	Results	Captain	From	To
18	6 wins, 12 draws	Sunil Gavaskar	January 24, 1976	January 20, 1980
17	4 wins, 13 draws	Kapil Dev	September 14, 1985	March 9, 1987
14	9 wins, 5 draws	Mohammad Azharuddin	January 2 1993	December 5, 1994
12*	9 wins, 3 draws	Virat Kohli	August 20, 2015
10	1 win, 9 draws	Sachin Tendulkar	April 4, 1997	November 2, 1999

Gavaskar's winning streak came at the start of his captaincy stint.

Kapil's streak came towards the end of his captaincy career, which ended with a defeat in his last Test as captain.

India are now undefeated in 13 consecutive home Tests (since losing to England at Kolkata in December 2012).

There have been only two longer undefeated home streaks for India in all Tests. The details:

India's longest undefeated streaks at home

Tests	Won	Drawn	Period
20	6	14	1977-1980
16	2	14	1960-1964
13*	11	2	2012 till date
12	7	5	2001-2003
12	9	3	2010-2012

The win was India's...

• 131st in 501 Tests
• 89th in 250 Tests at home
• 20th in 56 Tests vs New Zealand
• 15th in 33 Tests vs New Zealand at home
• 12th in 40 Tests at Kolkata
• 9th
• 5th in 6 Tests under Virat at home