Harbhajan overtakes Prasanna

• Harbhajan Singh [ Images ] became the leading Indian off-spinner with the wicket of Kamran Akmal, surpassing Erapally Prasanna's tally of 189 wickets. Incidentally Harbhajan needed five Tests lesser than Prasanna to overhaul his aggregate.

• The wicket of Mohammad Sami [ Images ] was 400th for Harbhajan Singh in his first class cricket career. Harbhajan was playing his 95th first -class match.

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• Harbhajan has now taken 31 wickets at this ground -- most by any bowler. He was earlier at level with Bishan Singh Bedi [ Images ] with 29 wickets.

• The total of 393 was Pakistan's highest at this ground obliterating the 316 they made in 1998-99.

• Tendulkar became the seventh Indian batsman (on eighth occasion) to score fifty (or more runs) in each innings of a Test against Pakistan. Sunil Gavaskar [ Images ] has done so twice.

• It was the eighth occasion when Tendulkar made fifty plus scores in each innings of a Test. The break-up: thrice v Australia [ Images ] (116 & 52 at Melbourne [ Images ] in 1999-00; 76 & 65 at Mumbai [ Images ] Wankhede in 2000-01; 241* & 60* at Sydney [ Images ] in 2003-04), twice v England [ Images ] (68 & 119* at Manchester in 1990; 177 & 74 at Nottingham in 1996) and once each v West Indies [ Images ] (179 & 54 at Nagpur in 1994-95), v Sri Lanka [ Images ] (53 & 124* at Colombo SSC in 1998-99) and now v Pakistan.

• Tendulkar is now one short of equalling Sunil Gavaskar's Indian record of most occasions of fifty plus scores in both innings of a Test (later Dravid also emulated Tendulkar with eighth such instance of his Test career). The Test record is on the name of Australia's Allan Border [ Images ] with 13 such instances.

• It was second time that Tendulkar made identical score in both innings of a Test. The only other occasion was against Australia at Kolkata [ Images ] in 2000-01- Tendulkar made 10 in both innings in that Test.

• Tendulkar's 52 is now the highest individual score made by an India [ Images ]n batsman in an innings. The previous highest such score was 47 by Virender Sehwag [ Images ] versus Australia at Adelaide in 2003-04. Incidentally the highest identical individual score made in both innings of a Test is 105 by Sri Lanka's Duleep Mendis (versus India at Chennai in 1982-83).

• Dravid has now aggregated 704 runs (at an average of 64.00) at this ground. Only Mohammad Azharuddin [ Images ] (860 runs) and VVS Laxman [ Images ] (762 runs) have aggregated more runs than Dravid at Eden Gardens.

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