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· The wicket of Aftab Ahmed (in first innings) was 900th for Anil Kumble in first class cricket. He was playing his 192nd first-class match. Kumble became only the fifth Indian after Bishan Singh Bedi (1,560), S Venkataraghavan (1,390), Bhagwat Chandrasekhar (1,063) and Erapally Prasanna (957) to have done so.
· Zaheer Khan completed his century of wickets when he had Manjural Islam Rana LBW in first innings. He became the fourth Indian pacer after Kapil Dev (434 in 131 Tests), Javagal Srinath (236 in 67) and Karsan Ghavri (109 in 39) to capture 100 or more wickets. Ghavri's tally though includes a few wickets as a spinner. Overall, he is the 15th Indian bowler to do so.
· Mohammad Ashraful (158*) made the highest individual score by a Bangladeshi batsman bettering the 145 by Aminul Islam also against India at Dhaka in November 2000. Ashraful's previous personal best was 114 against Sri Lanka at Colombo SSC in 2001-02.
· Ashraful also became the second batsman from Bangladesh to score more than one Test century after Habibul Bashar, who has three centuries to his credit.
· Ashraful completed 1,000 runs in Test cricket when his score reached 49. He became third batsman from Bangladesh to do so after Habibul Bashar and Javed Omer.
· Khaled Mashud became fourth Bangladeshi batsman to aggregate 1,000 runs in Test cricket when his score reached 20 in the first innings.
· The fourth wicket partnership of 70 between Habibul Bashar and Ashraful is Bangladesh's best for this wicket against India obliterating the 65-run partnership between Aminul Islam and Akram Khan at Dhaka in 2000-01.
· The fifth wicket stand of 115 between Ashraful and Aftab Ahmed is Bangladesh's first century partnership for any wicket against India. Bangladesh's previous highest partnership was of 93 runs for the seventh wicket between Aminual Islam and Khaled Mashud at Dhaka in 2000-01. Incidentally the previous highest fifth wicket partnership for Bangladesh against India was a paltry 21 between Aminul Islam and Al Sahariar at Dhaka in 2000-01.
· The tenth wicket partnership of 21 between Ashraful and Nazmul Hossain in first innings was a record for Bangladesh against India, bettering the 15 between Bikash Das and Hasibul Hossain at Dhaka in 2000-01. However Talha Jubair and Nazmul Hossain by adding 34 runs without being separated in the second innings set a new record.
· Bangladesh's total of 333 is their highest ever total at Chittagong in seven Tests, bettering their 301 against Zimbabwe in 2001-02.
· Sourav Ganguly provided the 24th instance of an Indian captain asking the opponents to follow-on. It was however only the sixth such occasion on foreign soil.
· India have now enforced follow-on against all other Test playing countries excepting South Africa.
· Irfan Pathan (5-32) produced his third five-wicket haul - all against Bangladesh.
· In a day when 16 wickets fell, five Bangladesh batsmen - Aftab Ahmed, Mohammad Rafique, Habibul Bashar, Manjural Islam Rana and Khaled Mashud -- suffered the ignominy of getting out TWICE on the same day. Manjural Islam Rana, infact, joined the select band of cricketers who got a pair on the same day. There has been only one better performance for India in this regard. Six Pakistani batsmen were dismissed twice on the third day of Delhi Test in 1952-53, which was also Pakistan's first ever Test match. At Bangalore in 1993-94 five Sri Lankan batsmen were out twice on the third day of the Test.
· Manjural Islam Rana got his first pair in Test cricket. He became second Bangladeshi after Rajin Saleh to get a pair against India.
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