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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