Second day’s play at Brabourne Stadium was a Statistician’s delight as many records were made and tumbled. HRG details out all these stats highlights. Read on…………………

AD Mathews was dismissed run out when he was on 99 providing the 14^th occasion of a batsman run out one short of a three figure innings.

No	Batsmen	99	Team	Opp	Ground	Month	Year
1	WA Brown	99	Aus	Ind	Melbourne	Feb	48
2	AR Morris	99	Aus	SAF	Melbourne	Feb	53
3	JEF Beck	99	NZl	SAF	Cape Town	Jan	54
4	RB Kanhai	99	Win	Ind	Chennai	Jan	59
5	ML Jaisimha	99	Ind	Pak	Kanpur	Dec	60
6	MJK Smith	99	Eng	Pak	Lahore	Oct	61
7	Mushtaq Mohd	99	Pak	Eng	Karachi	Mar	73
8	GA Gooch	99	Eng	Aus	Melbourne	Feb	80
9	DN Patel	99	NZl	Eng	Christchurch	Jan	92
10	MA Atherton	99	Eng	Aus	Lord’s	Jun	93
11	M Jayawardene	99	Srl	Win	Galle	Nov	01
12	JH Kallis	99	SAF	Aus	Melbourne	Dec	01
13	ND McKenzie	99	SAF	Aus	Cape Town	Mar	02
14	AD Mathews	99	Srl	Ind	Mumbai (BS)	Dec	09

AD Mathews became the second Sri Lankan batsman to be dismissed run out for 99 after Mahela Jayawardene who was dismissed run out for 99 against West Indies at Galle in Nov 01.

No	Batsmen	99	Team	Opp	Ground	Month	Year
1	M Jayawardene	99	Srl	Win	Galle	Nov	01
2	AD Mathews	99	Srl	Ind	Mumbai (BS)	Dec	09

AD Mathews became the third batsman to be dismissed run out for 99 against India after WA Brown of Australia and RB Kanhai of West Indies

No	Batsmen	99	Team	Opp	Ground	Month	Year
1	WA Brown	99	Aus	Ind	Melbourne	Feb	48
2	RB Kanhai	99	Win	Ind	Chennai	Jan	59
3	AD Mathews	99	Srl	Ind	Mumbai (BS)	Dec	09

AD Mathews’s 99 provides the 35^th occasion of a Sri Lankan batsman scoring individual ninety in a test innings. His 99 in this game provides the sixth occasion of a Sri Lankan batsman scoring an individual ninety against India. The other five occasions are – 98 by MS Atapatty at Mumbai-WS in Dec 97, 97 by RL Dias at Chennai in Sep 82, 95 by RL Dias at Col-PSS in Sep 85, 93 by JR Ratnayeke at Kanpur in Dec 86 and 93 by PA de Silva at Col-SSC in Jul 93

AD Mathews becomes the first Sri Lankan batsman to be dismissed for 99 against India. He is the eleventh batsman to be dismissed for 99 against India.

No	Batsmen	Team	99	Ground	Month	Year
1	WA Brown	Aus	99	Melbourne	Feb	48
2	Maqsood Ahmed	Pak	99	Lahore	Jan	55
3	RB Kanhai	Win	99	Chennai	Jan	59
4	IM Chappell	Aus	99	Kolkata	Dec	89
5	MLC Foster	Win	99	Port of Spain	Apr	71
6	Javed Miandad	Pak	99	Bangalore	Sep	83
7	RB Richardson	Win	99	Port of Spain	Apr	89
8	ME Trescothick	Eng	99	Ahmedabad	Dec	01
9	ML Hayden	Aus	99	Brisbane	Dec	03
10	SM Katich	Aus	99	Nagpur	Oct	04
11	AD Mathews	Srl	99	Mumbai (BS)	Dec	09

AD Mathews’s 99 in this test provides the 79^th occasion of a batsman scoring 99 or 99 not out in the annals of test cricket.

AD Mathews became the third Sri Lankan batsman to be dismissed on 99. The other two are RP Arnold against Pakistan at Peshawar in Mar 00 and DPMD Jayawardene against West Indies at Galle in Nov 01.

PP Ojha conceded 100 plus runs {3 for 101} in Sri Lanka’s first innings providing the 32^nd occasion of an Indian bowler conceding 100 plus runs in a test innings against Sri Lanka.

M Vijay and V Sehwag added 221 runs for the first wicket providing the 42^nd occasion of a three figure partnership posted by Indian batsmen against Sri Lanka. This stand represents the seventh three figure partnership for the first wicket by Indian batsmen against Sri Lanka

M Vijay and V Sehwag added 221 runs for the first wicket providing the seventh occasion of 200 plus runs posted by Indian batsmen against Sri Lanka for various wickets.

M Vijay and V Sehwag added 221 runs for the first wicket providing the 74^th occasion of 200 plus runs posted for the first wicket in the annals of test cricket.

M Vijay and V Sehwag added 221 runs for the first wicket providing the sixth occasion of V Sehwag being one of the partners in a first wicket partnership of 200 plus runs which is an Indian record

No	Partner	Wkt	Runs	Opp	Ground	Month	Year
1	SBBangar	1	201	Win	Mumbai	Oct	02
2	GGambhir	1	218	SAF	Kanpur	Nov	04
3	RDravid	1	410	Pak	Lahore	Jan	06
4	WJaffer	1	213	SAF	Chennai	Mar	08
5	GGambhir	1	233	Srl	Kanpur	Nov	09
6	MVijay	1	221	Srl	Mumba/BS	Dec	09

V Sehwag became the fourth opening batsman to be involved in a 200 plus partnership for the first wicket on six or more occasions. Others are ML Hayden {07}, GC Smith {07} and JL Langer {06}

V Sehwag and R Dravid added 222 runs in an unfinished stand for the second wicket at the end of the second day providing the 91^st occasion of 200 runs partnership for the second wicket in the annals of test cricket.

In India’s innings against South Africa at Chennai in Mar 2008, for the first wicket there was a 213 runs partnership between Wasim Jaffer and V Sehwag. For the second wicket there was another 200 plus run partnership – 268 runs stand between V Sehwag and R Dravid.

For the first time in the annals of test cricket 200 plus runs for the first two wickets were registered in the same test innings

This feat was repeated again by Indian batsmen at Brabourne Stadium, Mumbai against Sri Lanka in the third test of 2009-10 test series.

M Vijay and V Sehwag added 221 runs for the first wicket which was followed by 222 runs unfinished stand for the second wicket between V Sehwag and R Dravid for the second wicket at the end of second day’s play

V Sehwag and R Dravid added 222 runs in an unfinished stand for the second wicket at the end of the second day providing the eight occasion of 200 runs partnership by Indian batsmen against Sri Lanka

No	BattingPartners	Wkt	Runs	Ground	Month	Year
1	MAzharuddin/NKapil Dev	6	272	Kanpur	Dec	1986
2	MAzharuddin/SRTendulkar	4	221	Col-RPS	Aug	1997
3	SCGanguly, SRTendulkar	4	256	Mumbai	Dec	1997
4	RDravid,/SRamesh	2	232	Col-SSC	Feb	1999
5	MSDhoni,/RDravid	6	224	Ahmedabad	Nov	2009
6	GGambhir/VSehwag	1	233	Kanpur	Nov	2009
7	VSehwag/MVijay	1	221	Mum-BS	Dec	2009
8	RDravid/VSehwag	2	222*	Mum-BS	Dec	2009

R Dravid with his 222 runs unfinished stand in this test has become one of the partner in a three figure partnership on 80 occasions – most for any batsman in the annals of test cricket.

No	Partners	Inns	NO	Runs	High	100+
1	SR Tendulkar	113	4	5605	249	16
2	VVS Laxman	70	6	3456	376	11
3	SC Ganguly	68	6	3294	194*	10
4	V Sehwag	44	3	2579	410	9
5	G Gambhir	29	1	1805	314	7
6	W Jaffer	31	1	1555	203	6
7	NS Sidhu	14	0	958	171	3
8	SS Das	15	1	649	155	3
9	KD Karthik	12	0	508	165	3
10	D Dasgupta	4	0	320	171	2
11	Yuvraj Singh	13	1	606	125	1
12	S Ramesh	15	1	774	232	1
13	M Azharuddin	19	0	702	165	1
14	SB Bangar	12	0	387	170	1
15	PA Patel	7	1	245	129	1
16	J Srinath	9	0	305	144	1
17	Sarandeep Singh	1	1	120	120*	1
18	MS Dhoni	9	0	449	224	1
19	M Kaif	10	0	362	179	1
20	A Jadeja	6	0	147	101	1
	Total					80

R Dravid with his 222 runs unfinished stand in this test has become one of the partner in a 200 runs partnership for various wickets on 13 occasions which are listed below

No	Partners	Wkt	Runs	Opp	Ground	Start Date
1	V Sehwag	1	410	Pak	Lahore	13/01/06
2	VVS Laxman	5	376	Aus	Kolkata	11/03/01
3	G Gambhir	2	314	Aus	Mohali	19/12/08
4	VVS Laxman	5	303	Aus	Adelaide	12/12/03
5	V Sehwag	2	268	SAF	Chennai	26/03/08
6	G Gambhir	2	259	Ban	Chittagong/M	17/12/04
7	SR Tendulkar	3	249	Zim	Nagpur	25/11/00
8	S Ramesh	2	232	Srl	Col/SSC	24/02/99
9	SR Tendulkar	3	229	NZl	Mohali	10/10/99
10	MS Dhoni	6	224	Srl	Ahmedabad	16/11/09
11	V Sehwag	2	222*	Srl	Mum-BS	02/12/09
12	SR Tendulkar	3	213	Zim	Delhi	18/11/00
13	W Jaffer	3	203	Win	St John’s	02/06/06

V Sehwag’s 284 not out provides the 98^th occasion of an opening batsman scoring 200 plus runs in the annals of test cricket. His knock also provides the 18^th occasion of an Indian opening batsman scoring 200 plus runs.

V Sehwag registered his sixth double hundred as an opening batsman which puts him on par with MS Atapattu who also has scored six double hundreds as an opening batsman

R Dravid with his 62 not out in this test now has most fifties by an Indian batsman on home soil. His 62 not out represents his 24^th fifty on home soil and he wrested the record from SR Tendulkar and SM Gavaskar who have 23 home fifties to their credit.

At the end of the second day’s play R Dravid has an aggregate of 8843 runs while batting at number three. Only RT Ponting with 8895 runs to his credit has more runs than R Dravid while batting at number three. R Dravid is 42 runs shy of RT Ponting.

V Sehwag with his 284 not out in this test has now most scores of 150 plus runs by an opening batsman in the annals of test cricket. He wrested the record from SM Gavaskar who had eleven scores of 150 plus runs as an opening batsman

V Sehwag’s 284 not out represents his sixth double hundred in tests and he joins the select band of other seven batsmen whose names are listed below who have scored six or more double hundreds in the annals of test cricket.

No	Batsmen	Team	200+
1	DGBradman	Aus	12
2	BCLara	Win	9
3	WRHammond	Eng	7
4	MSAtapattu	Srl	6
5	JavedMiandad	Pal	6
6	DPMDJayawardene	Srl	6
7	KCSangakkara	Srl	6
8	VSehwag	Ind	6

V Sehewag became the first Indian batsman to register six double hundreds. He wrested the record from R Dravid who has five double hundreds to his credit

V Sehwag’s 284 not out represent the 290^th double hundred in the annals of test cricket. It also represents the 38^th double hundred by an Indian batsman in a test innings.

V Sehwag’s 284 not out represent the 15^th double hundred by a batsman against Sri Lanka in a test innings.

V Sehwag’s 284 not out represent his second double hundred against Sri Lanka, the first being his 201 not out at Galle in Jul 08.

V Sehwag emulated BC Lara of West Indies who also has scored two double hundreds against Sri Lanka.

No	Batsman	Team	Runs	Ground	Month	Year
1	BC Lara	Win	221	Col-SSC	Nov	01
2	BC Lara	Win	209	Gros Islet	Jun	03
1	V Sehwag	Ind	201*	Galle	Jul	08
2	V Sehwag	Ind	284*	Mum-BS	Dec	09

V Sehwag has scored two or more double hundreds against two specific oppositions. He has score three double hundreds against Pakistan and two double hundreds against Sri Lanka.

No	Batsman	Opp	Runs	Ground	Month	Year
1	V Sehwag	Pak	309	Multan	Mar	04
2	V Sehwag	Pak	201	B’lore	Mar	05
3	V Sehwag	Pak	254	Lahore	Jan	05
1	V Sehwag	Srl	201*	Galle	Jul	08
2	V Sehwag	Srl	284*	Mum-BS	Dec	09

V Sehwag became the seventh batsman in the annals of test cricket to register two or more double hundred against two or more specific oppositions.

No	Batsmen	Team	Opp	200+
1	BC Lara	Win	Aus	3
2	BC Lara	Win	Eng	2
3	BC Lara	Win	Srl	2
1	DG Bradman	Aus	Eng	8
2	DG Bradman	Aus	SAF	2
1	DPMDJayawardene	Srl	Ind	2
2	DPM Jayawardene	Srl	SAF	2
1	GC Smith	SAF	Ban	2
2	GC Smith	SAF	Eng	2
1	V Sehwag	Ind	Pak	3
2	V Sehwag	Ind	Srl	2
1	WR Hammond	Eng	Aus	4
2	WR Hammond	Eng	NZl	2
1	Zaheer Abbas	Pak	Eng	2
2	Zaheer Abbas	Pak	Ind	2