Statistical highlights

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·  Sachin Tendulkar (248*) posted his highest score in first-class and Test cricket bettering his 241* against Australia at Sydney in January this year. 

·  Tendulkar joined the selected band of batsmen who have scored four or more double centuries in Test cricket. Tendulkar is the third Indian after Rahul Dravid and Sunil Gavaskar. The details:

·  Tendulkar has now aggregated 5,453 runs in 108 innings of 68 overseas Tests. His run-aggregate is now the highest by any batsman in away Tests. The previous record was on the name of Australia's Allan Border with 5,431 runs from 120 innings of 70 Tests.

The following table lists the leading run-scorers in 'away' matches:

·  Tendulkar has now aggregated 879 runs in 14 innings of 9 Tests at an average of 97.66 in the year 2004. His batting average is the highest for any batsman in the calendar year 2004.

Tendulkar's batting in 2004:

Summary: 9 Tests, 14 innings, 879 runs, 248* Hs, 3 centuries, 2 fifties, 97.66 Ave.

Highest batting average in 2004 (Minimum Qualification: 500 runs)

·  Tendulkar's innings is the highest ever played on Bangladesh soil beating South Africa's Jacques Rudolph's unbeaten 222 at Chittagong in 2002-03

·  Tendulkar has now made 150-plus scores against 8 different countries. The only exception is Sri Lanka.

·  Zaheer Khan's innings of 75 is the highest ever by any number 11 batsman in Tests putting into shade New Zealander Richard Collinge's unbeaten 68 made in 1972-73. Zaheer is also only the second Indian batsman to score a fifty at number 11 after Ghulam Ahmed.

·  The tenth wicket partnership of 133 runs between Sachin Tendulkar and Zaheer Khan in Dhaka Test is India's best for this wicket against all countries. In fact the Tendulkar-Zaheer partnership is the joint second highest partnership for tenth wicket in all Tests. Overall it is the 18th instance of a century partnership for tenth wicket in Test chronicles – second such instance for India.

The details:

·  India (526) registered their highest score against Bangladesh surpassing their previous highest of 429 at Dhaka in November 2000. 

·  Rajin Saleh was dismissed without scoring in both innings in the identical fashion (LBW to Pathan). Although a total of 28 batsmen (on 30 occasions) have achieved the dubious distinction of bagging a pair against India, Saleh is only the second batsman to get dismissed in the identical fashion after Sri Lanka's Rumesh Ratnayake, who fell lbw to Venkatapathy Raju in both innings of Chandigarh Test in 1990-91.

·  Irfan Pathan (10-76) became the youngest Indian pacer to claim 10 wickets in a match. At 20 years 46 days he is the fourth youngest Indian bowler overall to perform this feat. Pathan displaced Chetan Sharma (20 years 186 days) to the second position. Kapil Dev (21 years 14 days) is now third in this list. The youngest Indian ever to take ten wickets is S. Venkataraghavan, who was 18 years 335 days old while taking 12 for 152 against New Zealand at Delhi in 1964-65. While the youngest bowler ever to take 10 wickets in a Test match is Pakistan's Wasim Akram at 18 years 256 days. 

The details:

·  Pathan's figures are the best by an Indian pacer in an away Test expunging Venkatesh Prasad's 10 for 153 against South Africa at Durban in 1996-97. Chetan Sharma (10-188 v England at Edgbaston in 1986) is the only other Indian pacer to have done so.

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