With six half-tons Rahul emulates Border, Artherton

India romped home to a 2-1 series win over Australia when the hosts won the fourth and final Test by 8 wickets on Day 4 at Dharamsala on Tuesday.

Rajneesh Gupta presents some interesting numbers from Day 4.

IMAGE: Opener KL Rahul finished the match with three runs, which also helped him complete his fifty, his fifth in a row in the series. Photograph: BCCI

4.44 India’s run-rate in the fourth innings -- highest in the match. The runs were scored at a rate of 3.38 in the first innings, at 2.80 in the second and at 2.54 in the third.

2 Number of sixes hit by Ajinkya Rahane. Only one captain has hit more sixes in a successful fourth innings chase against Australia. West Indies’ Brian Lara hit three sixes at St. John’s, Antigua, in 2003.

6 Number of fifties scored by KL Rahul in the series -- joint-most by any batsman in a series without scoring a hundred. Rahul emulated West Indies’ Conrad Hunte (vs Aus, 1964-65), Australia’s Allan Border (vs Eng, 1989), England’s Mike Atherton (vs Aus, 1993) and Australia’s Chris Rogers (vs India, 2014-15).

4 Number of times India have won a Test series after losing the first Test of the series. The other instances being: vs England in 1972-73, vs Australia in 2000-01 and vs Sri Lanka in 2015.

9 Number of Indian captains to win their first Test. Ajinkya Rahane joined Polly Umrigar, Sunil Gavaskar, Ravi Shastri, Sachin Tendulkar, Sourav Ganguly, Virender Sehwag, Anil Kumble and MS Dhoni.

10 Number of Tests won by India in the season 2016-17. Only one team has registered more wins in a season -- Australia -- 11 in 2005-06. Australia also won 10 Tests in 1999-00.

21 Number of Tests Australia have now lost in India out of 50 -- the most by any visiting side. England are second with 19 losses.

7 Number of consecutive series India have now won. They beat Sri Lanka 3-0 in Sri Lanka in 2015, South Africa 3-0 in India in 2015-16, West Indies 2-0 in West Indies in 2016, New Zealand 3-0, England 4-0, Bangladesh 1-0 and Australia 2-1 in India in 2016-17.

1562 Number of days for which India have not lost a Test series at home. Their last defeat at home was against England in December 2012.

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