Sachin’s 74 was his:
First Test fifty in 8 innings
Second fifty in Test matches in 2013
Eighth fifty at Wankhede
10th fifty against West Indies
32nd fifty at home
68th fifty in Test cricket
116th in all first-class cricket
Sachin, while on 64, completed his 1000 runs against West Indies in India. He became the fourth Indian to do so, after Sunil Gavaskar (1345), Dilip Vengsarkar (1147) and Gundappa Viswanath (1065).
Incidentally, West Indies are the second opponents against whom Sachin has aggregated 1000 runs on home soil. Sachin has a tally of 1821 runs against Australia at home. In contrast, Sachin has aggregated 1000 runs against four opponents in their den – Australia, England, South Africa and Sri Lanka.
Cheteshwar Pujara (113) scored his fifth century in his15th Test – his first against West Indies.
Rohit Sharma (111*) became only the second Indian and fifth batsman in Test cricket to score centuries in his first two innings, emulating West Indians Lawrence Rowe and Alvin Kallicharran (both vs New Zealand in 1972), fellow countryman Sourav Ganguly (vs England in 1996) and Pakistan’s Yasir Hameed (vs Bangladesh at Karachi in 2003).
Rohit reached his century with a six (off Marlon Samuels). He became the eleventh Indian to accomplish this feat, after Polly Umrigar, Kapil Dev, Sachin Tendulkar (six times!), Mohammad Azharuddin, Rahul Dravid, Virender Sehwag, Irfan Pathan, Gautam Gambhir (twice), MS Dhoni and Harbhajan Singh.
Rohit Sharma now has a batting average of 288.00, which is the highest for an Indian batsman at any point in his Test career (at the end of an innings). Shikhar Dhawan held the previous record with an average of 187.00 after his first Test innings.
In all Test cricket only four batsmen have managed a higher batting average at any point (at the end of an innings) than Rohit – West Indian Lawrence Rowe (314.00), Englishman Ian Bell (297.00) and South Africa’s Jacques Rudolph (293.00).
Darren Sammy by holding five catches equaled the existing world record of most catches by a fielder in a Test innings. Vic Richardson, Yujurvindra Singh, Mohammad Azharuddin, Krish Srikkanth, Stephen Fleming and Graeme Smith are the others to do so.
Shane Shillingford (5/179) took his fifth consecutive five-wicket haul in Test cricket, becoming the fourth player to accomplish this feat, after Charlie Turner, Tom Richardson and Alec Bedser. Turner went on to take five-wicket hauls in six consecutive innings.
The 80-run partnership between Rohit Sharma and Mohammed Shami is India’s best for the tenth wicket against West Indies, beating the 64-run stand between Javagal Srinath and Venkatapathy Raju at Mohali in 1994-95.
