The Oval Test marked the second instance of India starting a Test on August 15- first since gaining independence. The earlier instance was in 1936 also at the Oval! Interestingly India, Pakistan & Sri ...
Alastair Cook was captaining England for the 63rd time in an ODI. He now holds the record of captaining England on most occasions in ODIs, surpassing Andrew Strauss’ tally of 62 matches. Cook also ...
Alastair Cook, on 70, became England’s leading run-scorer against India in Test cricket. He surpassed Graham Gooch’s tally of 1,725 runs. Gary Ballance became eighth England batsman to aggregate 500 ...
Suresh Raina was playing his 200th ODI. He became 12th Indian to reach this mark (including Zaheer Khan who has played 194 ODIs for India and 6 for Asia XI). This match was the 145th between India and ...
Kolkata, October 29: India’s winning streak against England finally ended when the visitors cruised to a six-wicket win in the sole T20I between the two sides. Indian skipper MS Dhoni, who had ...
This is the most number of runs conceded by India in the first three overs in their T20 history. Here are these and many more stats highlights from an exciting match that went down to the wire: ...
4 for 11 - R Ashwin’s figures in the match. These are the best by an Indian bowler in a Twenty20 International. Ashwin obliterated Harbhajan Singh’s 4/12 against England in 2012. 6 Number of ...
This was the second match between these two sides at Jaipur’s Sawai Mansingh Stadium. The only other match was played in 1986 which India won by 7 wickets. Each of the first five batsmen in the ...
Rohit Sharma and Shikhar Dhawan put on 112 runs for the opening wicket – their sixth century stand and third in the series. Rohit and Dhawan became the first opening pair to forge three century stands ...