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July 30, 2002 | 1609 IST
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Statistical highlights

Mohandas Menon

India vs England, 1st Test, day 5, at Lord's

  • Scorecard | Match report | Images

  • Playing in his 12th Test match Ajit Agarkar (109 not out) registered his maiden Test hundred of his career. It was incidentally his only second first-class hundred in his 36th match. His first was also an identical 109 not out for the India A against a Peshawar XI during the tour of Pakistan in 1998.

  • Agarkar's previous best was the 41 not out he made against South Africa at Mumbai in February 2000.

  • Agarkar also becomes the fifth Indian batsman to make a hundred while batting at number eight in Tests, with Kapil Dev doing so on two occasions.

  • Agarkar just failed to better by one run the highest score by an Indian number eight in England, which still remains as the 110 by Kapil Dev at the Oval in 1990. He however betters Kapil's 89 (in 1982), which was the highest by an Indian number 8 at Lord's.

  • Agarkar meanwhile became the only second visiting batsman at number eight to score a hundred at Lord's after West Indian Bernard Julien, who made 121 in 1973.

  • Agarkar became the seventh Indian to score the 9th hundred in a Test at Lord's, with Dilip Vengsarkar doing so on three separate occasions. Interestingly, in the first eight tours undertaken by India since 1932 to 1974, only one Indian had achieved a three figure innings at the venue - Vinoo Mankad's 184 in 1952. However in the next six tours since 1979, there has been at least one hundred for India in each of the Test matches.

  • The 63 run partnership between Agarkar and Ashish Nehra was India's best against England for the tenth wicket obliterating the previous best of 51 runs - achieved twice - between Bapu Nadkarni & Bhagwat Chandrasehkar at Calcutta in January 1964 and between Syed Kirmani and Chetan Sharma at Madras in January 1985.

  • The above partnership also betters India's previous best at this venue, which was the 43 run stand between Rusi Modi and Sadu Shinde way back in June 1946.

  • Nehra's 19 was his best of his Test career bettering the previous best of 17 not out against South Africa, at Bloemfontein in Novemnber 2001. This was his 9th match of his career.

  • India's 397 was the 13th highest total by any team while batting in the fourth innings of a Test match. It was India's fourth highest total in the fourth innings.

  • The total was the highest by any team in the fourth innings at this venue since the beginning in 1884 and 104 Test matches. The previous highest was the winning score of 344-1 by the West Indies in 1984. This means India now have the highest totals while chasing targets at Lord's in both the versions of the game - in LOIs and Tests. On July 13, 2002, India had successfully chased England's target of 326 runs in the NatWest Series final.

  • For the record, the previous highest fourth innings total in a losing effort at Lord's was the 307 by the home team while chasing a target of 441 set by Australia in 1988.

  • This was India's 12th opening Test loss in 14 series played in England since 1932. The only occasion India did not lose the opening Test was in 1971 and 1986 - on both occasions it won the series. In 1986 India went on to win the opening Test match.

  • This win was England's third in a row this season.

  • India vs England, 1st Test: Day 1 and 2 | Day 4

  • NatWest Tri-Series statistics:
    Match 1 | Match 2 | Match 3 | Match 4 | Match 5 | Match 6 | Match 8 | Match 9

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