Statistical highlights
Mohandas Menon
India vs England, 2nd Test, day 1, at Nottingham Test
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** Stephen Harmison and Robert Key became the 611th and 612th England
player to appear in a Test match. Harmison incidentally became the first
Durham player to appear for England.
** Parthiv Patel, playing in his only 10th first-class match of his
career, became the 244th player to appear in a Test for India. At 17
years, 152 days he becomes the third youngest to make debut for India after
Sachin Tendukar (16 years, 205 days - v Pakistan at Karachi in 1989)
and Laxman Sivaramakrishnan (17 years, 118 days - v West Indies at St
John’s in 1983). He also becomes the 17th all time youngest Test
cricketer.
** However Patel now becomes the youngest Test player to be selected as
a keeper. Pakistani Hanif Mohammad, was 17 years 300 days, when he kept
wickets while making his debut against India at Delhi in October 1952.
However since Hanif kept wickets only in his first three matches of his
55 Test career, it was the record of Zimbabwean Tatenda Taibu, a
regular keeper, which Patel actually surpassed. Taibu was 18 years, 66 days
when he kept wickets while making his debut against the West Indies in
July 2001.
** Interestingly out of the 31 players (including Patel) who have kept
wickets for India, he is the first left-handed keeper-batsman to appear
for India.
** Patel, from the state of Gujarat, also becomes the third Indian
since 1957-58 (which saw the introduction the league-cum-knock-out format
in the Ranji Trophy tournament) to appear in a Test match without
playing for his state team in the Ranji Trophy. The others being Budhi
Kunderan in 1959-60 and Vivek Razdan in 1989-90.
** Virender Sehwag who had made a hundred (105) on his Test debut
against South Africa at Bloemfontein last Noveember, registered his second
Test hundred in his seventh match and ninth innings of his career. This
hundred was now his highest Test score.
** During his above innings Shewag also crossed the 500 run aggregate
of his Test career. Only Vinod Kambli and Sunil Gavaskar needed fewer
innings - five and seven innings respectively - than Sehwag, among the
66 Indian batsmen who have aggregated 500 or more runs in Tests.
** The above hundred was Sehwag’s 11th of his first-class career in 43
matches.
