Statistical highlights
1st Test at Mumbai - Day 2
** Mark Waugh's duck was Australia's first since the opening Test match
against the West Indies at Brisbane in November last, when tail-ender Glenn
McGrath was dismissed for zero. Incidentally it was Waugh's 16th duck of his
career in 109 Test matches. Interestingly he now has eight ducks in the
sub-continent - five in Sri Lanka, two in India and one in Pakistan.
** Adam Gilchrist's 122 was his second of his Test career in his 15th match.
He had scored an unbeaten 149 against Pakistan at Hobart in November 1999.
This was Gilchrist's 13th first-class hundred in 95 matches.
** Gilchrist now has the distinction of scoring the second quickest hundred
by an Australian batsman in Tests when he reached his 100 in just 84 balls.
The quickest hundred by an Australian in terms of balls faced remains with
all-rounder Jack Gregory during his innings of 119 against South Africa at
the Old Wanderers ground at Johannesburg way back in November 1921. He took
just 67 balls!
** However Gilchrist's 84-ball hundred was the fastest by a
wicket-keeper-batsman in Test history. West Indian keeper Junior Murray had
reached his in 88 balls during his unbeaten knock of 101 against New Zealand
at Wellington in February 1995.
** For the record, the previous fastest hundred (in terms of balls faced)
against India in Tests was by former West Indian captain Clive Lloyd, who
during his innings of 163 at Bangalore in November 1974 needed one ball more
than Gilchrist to reach his hundred.
** Gilchrist's 122 was the fifth highest individual score by an Australian
keeper in Tests. However it is now the highest for an Australian keeper away
from home. He bettered the score of 120 by Wayne Phillips against West
Indies at Bridgetown in March 1984.
** Gilchrist also became the first Australian keeper to score a hundred
against India. His predecessor Ian Healy had made 90 in the first Test of
the last series at Chepauk in March 1998.
** Gilchrist's 122 was the highest score by an Australian batsman while
batting at number seven against India. The previous highest was the unbeaten
100 by former off-spinner Greg Matthews at the MCG in December 1985.
** Playing in his 14th Test match left-hander Matthew Hayden (119) recorded
his second Test hundred of his career. His previous hundred was the 125 he
made against West Indies at Adelaide in January 1997. This was Hayden's
46th first-class hundred in 182 matches.
** The partnership between Hayden and Gilchrist was the joint-seventh
highest partnership for the sixth wicket for Australia in Tests. However it
was Australia's highest against India for this wicket, which obliterates the
previous highest of 151 by Tom Veivers and Barry Jarman at the Brabourne
Stadium in October 1964. In fact the Hayden-Gilchrist partnership just to
failed to better Australia's highest for the sixth wicket in an away Test
match. Keith Miller and Ron Archer had put on 206 runs against the West
Indies at Bridgetown in May 1955.
** This was the second successive hundred-plus partnership against India
for the sixth wicket. At Napgur in November, Zimbabweans Andy Flower and
Dirk Viljoen had put on 113 runs. Incidentally the Zimbabweans had added:
77& 35 (at Delhi) and 62 & 113 (at Napgur) for this wicket and now this
mammoth 197 by the Australians.
** Harbhajan Singh's 4-121 was his best figures of his Test career. Playing
in his 9th Test match he bettered his previous best of 3-30 against Pakistan
at Delhi in February 1999.
** During his knock of 44 Sadagoppan Ramesh, when on 35, reached a personal
landmark of 1000 Test runs. Playing in his 13th Test match and 25th innings,
he now becomes the 44th Indian and the 358th batsman in Test history to do
so. He emulates Kris Srikkanth (2062 runs) to become the only second
Madras/Tamil Nadu batsman to reach 1000-plus runs in Tests. Ramesh now has
1009 runs (avg. 42.04) to his credit.
Post-script:
** For the third successive Test match a wicket-keeper has scored a hundred
against India. Zimbabwean Andy Flower had scored 183 and 232 - both unbeaten
- at Delhi and Nagpur respectively in November last.
** Out of the last six hundreds scored against India - five were by
left-handers!
More on the first Test:
Images from day 2
Day 2 match report
Australia wicketkeeper Adam Gilchrist sums up Day 2 on Real Audio
Test records at the Wankhede
Compiled by Mohandas Menon
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