India - WI 3rd day Highlights

The statistical highlights of the third day's play from the first Test between India and West Indies at New Delhi.

# Sachin Tendulkar, playing in his 300th innings, became the first batsman to cross 15,000 runs in Test Cricket. He is also the first batsman to play 300 innings in Tests.

# Under MS Dhoni's captaincy, Tendulkar averages 66.26 - 2717 runs in 48 innings, including eleven hundreds and ten fifties.

# Darren Sammy (42) has recorded his highest innings against India, surpassing the 25 at Kingston in June 2011.

# Ravichandran Ashwin's figures (6/47) are the third best in an innings by an Indian bowler on debut, next only to Narendra Hirwani (8/61 + 8/75) against West Indies at Chennai in January 1988.

# The only two other bowlers to have taken 6 wickets in an innings on debut are Abid Ali (6/55 against Australia at Adelaide in December 1967) and Dilip Doshi (6/103 against Australia at Chennai in September 1979).

# Ashwin's match figures of 9 for 128 are the second best by an Indian bowler on Test debut, next only to Narendra Hirwani's 16/136 against West Indies at Chennai in January 1988.

# Shivnarine Chanderpaul (1987 runs at an average of 68.51 in 22 Tests) needs 13 runs to complete 2,000 runs against India in Tests.

# Marlon Samuels has recorded his sixth duck in Tests - his second against India.

# Virender Sehwag (55 & 55) has recorded a fifty in each innings of a Test match against West Indies for the first time.

# Sehwag's 29th Test fifty is his fourth against the West Indies.

# Sehwag averages 53.78 against the West Indies - 753 runs in eight Tests, including two hundreds and four fifties.

# Umesh Yadav (2/36) picked his maiden Test wicket.

# Rahul Dravid has taken his batting average to 59.42 in Tests in 2011 - 832 runs in nine Tests, including four centuries and two fifties.

# Dravid averages 64.55 against the West Indies - 1743 runs in 21 Tests, including four centuries and twelve fifties.

# West Indies' 276 for five off 85.3 overs is the highest successful chase in the fourth innings of a Test match at the Feroz Shah Kotla, achieved in 1987-88.

INDIAN BOWLERS WITH 5 WICKETS OR MORE IN AN INNINGS ON DEBUT

WICKETS	BOWLER	OPPOSITION	VENUE	SERIES
8/61	Narendra Hirwani	West Indies	Chennai	1987-88
8/75	Narendra Hirwani	West Indies	Chennai	1987-88
6/47	Ravichandran Ashwin	West Indies	Delhi	2011-12
6/55	Abid Ali	Australia	Adelaide	1967-68
6/103	Dilip Doshi	Australia	Chennai	1979-80
5/64	VV Kumar	Pakistan	Delhi	1960-61
5/71	Amit Mishra	Australia	Mohali	2008-09
5/93	Mohd Nissar	England	Lord's	1932

source: sports.ndtv.com

Also See The Useful Links:

India - WI 2nd day Highlights: http://indian-cricket-team-updates.blogspot.com/2011/11/india-wi-2nd-day-highlights.html

India - WI 1st day Highlights: http://indian-cricket-team-updates.blogspot.com/2011/11/india-wi-1st-day-highlights.html