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CA Pujara was dismissed run out for a duck in the fourth innings of the test at Dharamsala between India and Australia to provide the 32^nd occasion  of an Indian batsman dismissed run out for a duck  in a test innings. All such occasions are tabulated below

No	Player	Runs	Inns	Opposition	Ground	Start Date
1	PG Joshi	0	3	v England	Kanpur	12 Jan 1952
2	JM Ghorpade	0	3	v West Indies	Port of Spain	19 Feb 1953
3	GS Ramchand	0	1	v West Indies	Georgetown	11 Mar 1953
4	VL Manjrekar	0	1	v West Indies	Georgetown	11 Mar 1953
5	NS Tamhane	0	2	v Pakistan	Peshawar	13 Feb 1955
6	DG Phadkar	0	1	v New Zealand	Kolkata	28 Dec 1955
7	Surendranath	0	3	v England	Lord’s	18 Jun 1959
8	JM Patel	0	1	v Australia	Kolkata	23 Jan 1960
9	VL Manjrekar	0	3	v England	Chennai	10 Jan 1964
10	BS Chandrasekhar	0	1	v England	Delhi	08 Feb 1964
11	AL Wadekar	0	2	v England	Leeds	08 Jun 1967
12	P Krishnamurthy	0	2	v West Indies	Georgetown	19 Mar 1971
13	BS Bedi	0	1	v England	Kolkata	30 Dec 1972
14	S Venkataraghavan	0	1	v England	Lord’s	02 Aug 1979
15	KD Ghavri	0	1	v Australia	Melbourne	07 Feb 1981
16	AD Gaekwad	0	1	v West Indies	Port of Spain	11 Mar 1983
17	KS More	0	1	v Pakistan	Kolkata	11 Feb 1987
18	ND Hirwani	0	1	v Sri Lanka	Chandigarh	23 Nov 1990
19	RK Chauhan	0	3	v Sri Lanka	Mumbai	03 Dec 1997
20	J Srinath	0	3	v South Africa	Mumbai	24 Feb 2000
21	M Kartik	0	1	v South Africa	Bengaluru	02 Mar 2000
22	J Srinath	0	1	v Zimbabwe	Harare	15 Jun 2001
23	Harbhajan Singh	0	2	v South Africa	Port Elizabeth	16 Nov 2001
24	A Nehra	0	2	v West Indies	Kingston	18 May 2002
25	AB Agarkar	0	1	v Australia	Melbourne	26 Dec 2003
26	R Dravid	0	3	v Pakistan	Lahore	05 Apr 2004
27	Harbhajan Singh	0	4	v Australia	Melbourne	26 Dec 2007
28	I Sharma	0	3	v Sri Lanka	Galle	31 Jul 2008
29	Z Khan	0	3	v Sri Lanka	Colombo (PSS)	08 Aug 2008
30	PP Ojha	0	2	v New Zealand	Hyd-RGS	12 Nov 2010
31	PP Ojha	0	2	v West Indies	Mumbai	14 Nov 2013
32	CA Pujara	0	4	v Australia	Dharamsala	25 Mar 2017

CA Pujara was dismissed run out for a duck in the fourth innings of the test at Dharamsala between India and Australia to provide the fourth  occasion  of an Indian batsman batting at number three dismissed run out for a duck in a test innings against Australia. All such occasions are tabulated below. Note the sequence of  the innings – GS Ramchand  in the first  innings of the test, AL Wadekar in the second  innings of  the test, R Dravid in  the third innings of the test and now CA Pujara in the fourth innings of the test. 

No	Player	Runs	Inns	Pos	Opposition	Ground	Start Date
1	GS Ramchand	0	1	3	v West Indies	Georgetown	11 Mar 1953
2	AL Wadekar	0	2	3	v England	Leeds	08 Jun 1967
3	R Dravid	0	3	3	v Pakistan	Lahore	05 Apr 2004
4	CA Pujara	0	4	3	v Australia	Dharamsala	25 Mar 2017

CA Pujara was dismissed run out for a duck in the fourth innings of the test at Dharamsala between India and Australia to provide the fifth occasion  of an Indian batsman dismissed run out for a duck in a test innings against Australia. All such occasions are tabulated below

No	Player	Runs	Inns	Opposition	Ground	Start Date
1	JM Patel	0	1	v Australia	Kolkata	23 Jan 1960
2	KD Ghavri	0	1	v Australia	Melbourne	07 Feb 1981
3	AB Agarkar	0	1	v Australia	Melbourne	26 Dec 2003
4	Harbhajan Singh	0	4	v Australia	Melbourne	26 Dec 2007
5	CA Pujara	0	4	v Australia	Dharamsala	25 Mar 2017

RA Jadeja of India became the third cricketer to score 500 plus runs and capture 50 plus wickets in a season after Kapil Dev of India and MG Johnson of Australia. RA Jadeja has scored 556 runs and captured 71 wickets in 2016-17 season. The following table lists the performance of these three all round cricketers.

Player	Team	Mat	Runs	100	W	BBI	5	Ct	St	Season
RA Jadeja	Ind	13	556	0	71	7/48	4	10	0	2016/17
N Kapil Dev	Ind	13	535	0	63	7/56	5	6	0	1979/80
MG Johnson	Aus	12	527	1	60	8/61	2	3	0	2008/09

RA Jadeja’s 556 runs and 71 wickets in 2016-17 season represent the most runs scored and most wickets captured in a seson by a cricketer in  the history of test cricket

RA Jadeja pouched ten catches in this season to make his performance more special. He became the only cricketer in the entire test history to score 500 plus runs, capture 50 plus wickets and pouch ten catches. His runs, wickets and catches are records in their respective category

Australia was  dismissed all out for 137 in the third  innings of  the ongoing test at Dharamsala against  India to provide the eleventh occasion of Australia dismissed all out for a total less than 150 runs in an innings  against India. All such occasions are listed below

No	Team	Score	Overs	Inns	Oppn	Ground	Start Date
1	Australia	107	46.2×8	2	v India	Sydney	12 Dec 1947
2	Australia	105	57.4	4	v India	Kanpur	19 Dec 1959
3	Australia	107	58.2	3	v India	Delhi	28 Nov 1969
4	Australia	131	49.4×8	1	v India	Sydney	07 Jan 1978
5	Australia	125	60.2	4	v India	Kanpur	02 Oct 1979
6	Australia	083	48.4	4	v India	Melbourne	07 Feb 1981
7	Australia	145	66.4	1	v India	Adelaide	25 Jan 1992
8	Australia	093	30.5	4	v India	Mumbai	03 Nov 2004
9	Australia	131	67.0	3	v India	Hyd-RGS	02 Mar 2013
10	Australia	112	35.4	4	v India	Bengaluru	04 Mar 2017
11	Australia	137	53.5	3	v India	Dharamsala	25 Mar 2017

Australia was  dismissed all out for 137 in the third  innings of  the ongoing test at Dharamsala against  India to provide the third occasion of Australia dismissed all out for a total less than 150 runs in the  third innings of a test  against India. All such occasions are listed belo

No	Team	Score	Overs	Inns	Oppn	Ground	Start Date
1	Australia	107	58.2	3	v India	Delhi	28 Nov 1969
2	Australia	131	67.0	3	v India	Hyd-RGS	02 Mar 2013
3	Australia	137	53.5	3	v India	Dharamsala	25 Mar 2017

 

South African bowler M Morkel’s aggregate of test wickets at the end of New Zealand’s first innings in the ongoing test at Hamilton read 252. He became the 29th medium pace bowler  in  the  annals of test cricket to capture 250 plus test wickets. The following table furnishes the detailed particulars of all the 29 bowlers who have accomplished such a feat

No	Player	Team	Mat	Inns	Balls	Runs	Wkts	BBI	BBM	Ave	5	10
1	GD McGrath	Aus	124	243	29248	12186	563	8/24	10/27	21.64	29	3
2	CA Walsh	Win	132	242	30019	12688	519	7/37	13/55	24.44	22	3
3	JM Anderson	Eng	122	228	26840	13310	467	7/43	11/71	28.50	21	3
4	N Kapil Dev	Ind	131	227	27740	12867	434	9/83	11/146	29.64	23	2
5	Sir RJ Hadlee	NZl	86	150	21918	9611	431	9/52	15/123	22.29	36	9
6	SM Pollock	SAF	108	202	24353	9733	421	7/87	10/147	23.11	16	1
7	DW Steyn	SAF	85	156	17286	9303	417	7/51	11/60	22.30	26	5
8	Wasim Akram	Pak	104	181	22627	9779	414	7/119	11/110	23.62	25	5
9	CEL Ambrose	Win	98	179	22103	8501	405	8/45	11/84	20.99	22	3
10	M Ntini	SAF	101	190	20834	11242	390	7/37	13/132	28.82	18	4
11	IT Botham	Eng	102	168	21815	10878	383	8/34	13/106	28.40	27	4
12	MD Marshall	Win	81	151	17584	7876	376	7/22	11/89	20.94	22	4
13	Waqar Younis	Pak	87	154	16224	8788	373	7/76	13/135	23.56	22	5
14	SCJ Broad	Eng	102	186	21000	10503	368	8/15	11/121	28.54	15	2
15	Imran Khan	Pak	88	142	19458	8258	362	8/58	14/116	22.81	23	6
16	DK Lillee	Aus	70	132	18467	8493	355	7/83	11/123	23.92	23	7
17	WPUJC Vaas	Srl	111	194	23438	10501	355	7/71	14/191	29.58	12	2
18	AA Donald	SAF	72	129	15519	7344	330	8/71	12/139	22.25	20	3
19	RGD Willis	Eng	90	165	17357	8190	325	8/43	9/92	25.20	16	0
20	MG Johnson	Aus	73	140	16001	8891	313	8/61	12/127	28.40	12	3
21	Z Khan	Ind	92	165	18785	10247	311	7/87	10/149	32.94	11	1
22	B Lee	Aus	76	150	16531	9554	310	5/30	9/171	30.81	10	0
23	FS Trueman	Eng	67	127	15178	6625	307	8/31	12/119	21.57	17	3
23	JH Kallis	SAF	166	272	20232	9535	292	6/54	9/92	32.65	5	0
25	CJ McDermott	Aus	71	124	16586	8332	291	8/97	11/157	28.63	14	2
26	J Garner	Win	58	111	13169	5433	259	6/56	9/108	20.97	7	0
27	JN Gillespie	Aus	71	137	14234	6770	259	7/37	9/80	26.13	8	0
28	M Morkel	SAF	74	136	14162	7382	252	6/23	8/196	29.29	6	0
29	JB Statham	Eng	70	129	16056	6261	252	7/39	11/97	24.84	9	1

 

South African bowler M Morkel’s aggregate of test wickets at the end of New Zealand’s first innings in the ongoing test at Hamilton read 252. He became the sixth South African bowler to capture 250 plus test wickets. The following table furnishes the detailed particulars of all the six bowlers who have accomplished such a feat

No	Player	Mat	Inns	Balls	Runs	Wkts	BBI	BBM	Ave	5	10
1	SM Pollock	108	202	24353	9733	421	7/87	10/147	23.11	16	1
2	DW Steyn	085	156	17286	9303	417	7/51	11/060	22.30	26	5
3	M Ntini	101	190	20834	11242	390	7/37	13/132	28.82	18	4
4	AA Donald	072	129	15519	7344	330	8/71	12/139	22.25	20	3
5	JH Kallis	165	270	20172	9497	291	6/54	09/092	32.63	05	0
6	M Morkel	074	136	14162	7382	252	6/23	08/196	29.29	06	0

 

KM Willamson’s 148 not out as at the end of the third day in the test between New Zealand and South Africa at Hamilton represents his 17^th test century. He now jointly shares the record of most centuries by a New Zealand batsman in test cricket with MD Crowe who has also scored similar number of centuries. Centuries scored by these two batsmen are tabulated below

MD CROWE’S TEST CENTURIES
No	Runs	Pos	Dismissal	Inns	Opposition	Ground	Start Date
1	100	4	caught	3	v England	Wellington	20 Jan 1984
2	188	4	lbw	2	v West Indies	Georgetown	06 Apr 1985
3	188	4	bowled	2	v Australia	Brisbane	08 Nov 1985
4	137	4	caught	2	v Australia	Christchurch	28 Feb 1986
5	106	4	caught	2	v England	Lord’s	24 Jul 1986
6	119	4	caught	3	v West Indies	Wellington	20 Feb 1987
7	104	4	caught	3	v West Indies	Auckland	27 Feb 1987
8	137	4	caught	1	v Australia	Adelaide	11 Dec 1987
9	143	4	lbw	1	v England	Wellington	03 Mar 1988
10	174	4	caught	1	v Pakistan	Wellington	10 Feb 1989
11	113	4	lbw	3	v India	Auckland	22 Feb 1990
12	108*	4	not out	3	v Pakistan	Lahore	18 Oct 1990
13	299	4	caught	3	v Sri Lanka	Wellington	31 Jan 1991
14	140	4	caught	1	v Zimbabwe	Harare	07 Nov 1992
15	107	4	caught	3	v Sri Lanka	Colombo (SSC)	06 Dec 1992
16	142	4	caught	1	v England	Lord’s	16 Jun 1994
17	115	5	caught	3	v England	Manchester	30 Jun 1994
KN WILLIAMSON’S TEST CENTURIES
No	Runs	Pos	Dismissal	Inns	Opposition	Ground	Start Date
1	131	6	caught	2	v India	Ahmedabad	04 Nov 2010
2	102*	4	not out	4	v South Africa	Wellington	23 Mar 2012
3	135	3	lbw	1	v Sri Lanka	Colombo (PSS)	25 Nov 2012
4	114	3	lbw	1	v Bangladesh	Chittagong	09 Oct 2013
5	113	3	caught	1	v India	Auckland	06 Feb 2014
6	113	3	bowled	1	v West Indies	Kingston	08 Jun 2014
7	161*	3	not out	3	v West Indies	Bridgetown	26 Jun 2014
8	192	3	caught	2	v Pakistan	Sharjah	26 Nov 2014
9	242*	3	not out	3	v Sri Lanka	Wellington	03 Jan 2015
10	132	3	caught	2	v England	Lord’s	21 May 2015
11	140	3	caught	2	v Australia	Brisbane	05 Nov 2015
12	166	3	caught	2	v Australia	Perth	13 Nov 2015
13	108*	3	not out	4	v Sri Lanka	Hamilton	18 Dec 2015
14	113	3	caught	1	v Zimbabwe	Bulawayo	06 Aug 2016
15	104*	3	not out	4	v Bangladesh	Wellington	12 Jan 2017
16	130	3	caught	2	v South Africa	Dunedin	08 Mar 2017
17	148*	3	not out	2	v South Africa	Hamilton	25 Mar 2017

 

KN Willamson of New Zealand completed 5000  test runs during his knock of 148 not out against South Africa in the ongoing test at Hamilton. He reached the milestone when he was on 60 during his knock of 148 not out. At the  end of the third day of the test, his run aggregate read 5088. He became the 90th batsman in the annals of test cricket to amass 5000 plus test runs and also the sixth New Zealand batsman to compile 5000 plus test runs. The following table lists the six New Zealand batsmen who have aggregated 5000 plus test runs.

No	Player	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	100	50	0
1	SP Fleming	111	189	10	7172	274*	40.06	09	46	16
2	BB McCullum	101	176	09	6453	302	38.64	12	31	14
3	LRPL Taylor	081	146	18	6030	290	47.10	16	27	12
4	MD Crowe	077	131	11	5444	299	45.36	17	18	09
5	JG Wright	082	148	07	5334	185	37.82	12	23	07
6	KS Williamson	061	110	11	5088	242*	51.39	17	25	06

 

R Aswhin created two world records – one individually and another with RA Jadeja. His individual record will be thus –He took three wickets in the second innings of Dharamsala test to take his tally of wickets to 82 in this season of 2016-17. He became the first bowler ever in the history of test cricket to capture 80 plus wickets in a test season. At the end of the first innings of the ongoing test at Dharamsala, his aggregate of wickets in 2016-17 read 79

Another record he has created with RA Jadeja reads thus – RA Jadeja had captured 68 wickets as at the end of the first innings of the ongoing test at Dharamsala. He needed two more wickets for his 70 wickets. He took three wickets in the second  innings to take his tally of wickets to 71 in 2016-17 season and  paired with R Ashwin to become the first pair of bowlers in the annals of test cricket to capture seventy plus wickets in the same test season – a feat never achieved before. R Ashwin had captured 82 wickets as at the end of Australia’s  second innings of the ongoing test at Dharamsala

NM Lyon has captured five or more wickets in an innings on four occasions against India. One more five wicket innings haul would give him five such occasions. He took five for 92 in India’s first innings to become seventh bowler in the annals of test cricket to capture five or more five wicket innings haul against India. Others are – M Muralitharan {07}, IT Botham {06}, Imran Khan {06}, MD Marshall {06}, R Benaud {05} and DW Steyn {05}

NM Lyon has captured five or more wickets in an innings on four occasions against India. One more five wicket innings haul would give him five such occasions. He took five for 92 in India’s first innings to become the second Australian bowler to capture five or more five wicket innings haul against India after R Benaud. R Benaud has captured five or more wickets in an innings on five occasions against India.

WP Saha has an aggregate of 982 runs in tests prior to the start of the test. He needed 18 more runs for his 1000 runs. He scored 31 runs in the first innings of this test to take his tally to 1013 runs. He became the 66^th Indian batsman to score 1000 plus runs  in tests.

R Ashwin has an aggregate of 67 wickets against Australia. Three more wickets would fetch him 70 wickets. He took four wickets in this test to take his tally of wickets to 71 against Australia. He became the fourth Indian bowler to capture 70 plus wickets against Australia. Others are – A Kumble {111}, Harbhajan Singh {95} and N Kapil Dev {79}

R Ashwin had an aggregate of 46 wickets against Australia at home. He needed four more wickets for his 50 wickets. He took four wickets in this test to take his tally of wickets to 50 against Australia at home. He become the third Indian bowler to capture 50 plus wickets against Australia at home. Other two are – Harbhajan Singh {86} and A Kumble {62}

R Ashwin had an aggregate of 46 wickets against Australia at home. He needed four more wickets for his 50 wickets. He took four wickets in this test to take his tally of wickets to 50 against Australia at home. He became the 17^th bowler in the annals of test cricket to capture 50 plus wickets against Australia at home. The following table lists all the eighteen bowlers

No	Player	Team	M	Inns	Balls	Runs	W	Ave	5	10
1	Harbhajan Singh	Ind	14	28	4672	2187	86	25.43	7	3
2	IT Botham	Eng	18	32	4251	2130	79	26.96	6	1
3	W Rhodes	Eng	21	32	3190	1405	67	20.97	3	0
4	JC Laker	Eng	11	21	2988	1126	64	17.59	4	2
5	CA Walsh	Win	13	24	3217	1400	63	22.22	2	0
6	A Kumble	Ind	10	20	3312	1517	62	24.46	6	1
7	SCJ Broad	Eng	15	27	2901	1587	61	26.01	5	1
8	AV Bedser	Eng	10	19	3238	1370	57	24.03	5	1
9	RGD Willis	Eng	11	21	2516	1200	56	21.42	4	0
10	DL Underwood	Eng	15	26	3810	1196	55	21.74	3	1
11	HMRKB Herath	Srl	08	14	2327	1087	54	20.12	5	1
12	RJ Hadlee	NZl	11	20	2726	1301	53	24.54	4	0
13	JA Snow	Eng	14	27	3268	1418	52	27.26	2	0
14	J Briggs	Eng	10	17	1915	0695	51	13.62	5	2
15	CEL Ambrose	Win	13	23	2941	1174	50	23.48	2	0
16	FS Trueman	Eng	11	20	2398	1202	50	24.04	4	1
17	R Ashwin	Ind	08	16	2800	1158	50	23.16	5	1

R Ashwin had an aggregate of 46 against Australia at home. He needed four more wickets for his 50 wickets. He took four wickets in this test to take his tally of wickets to 50 against Australia at home. He became the eighth bowler in the annals of test cricket to capture 50 plus wickets against Australia at home. The following table lists all the eight bowlers

No	Player	Team	M	Inns	Balls	Runs	W	Ave	5	10
1	Harbhajan Singh	Ind	14	28	4672	2187	86	25.43	7	3
2	W Rhodes	Eng	21	32	3190	1405	67	20.97	3	0
3	JC Laker	Eng	11	21	2988	1126	64	17.59	4	2
4	A Kumble	Ind	10	20	3312	1517	62	24.46	6	1
5	DL Underwood	Eng	15	26	3810	1196	55	21.74	3	1
6	HMRKB Herath	Srl	08	14	2327	1087	54	20.12	5	1
7	J Briggs	Eng	10	17	1915	0695	51	13.62	5	2
8	R Ashwin	Ind	08	16	2800	1158	50	23.16	5	1

RA Jadeja’s run aggregate at the end  of the second day of the Dharamsala test between India and Australia read 1004. He has already captured 139 wickets. He became the ninth spin bowler to capture 100 plus wickets and score 1000 plus runs in the annals of test cricket.  The performance of these nine cricketers is listed below

No	Player	Team	Mat	Runs	HS	Bat Av	Wkts	BBI	Bowl Av	5
1	HMRKB Herath	Srl	80	1444	80*	14.73	373	9/127	27.87	29
2	DL Vettori	NZl	113	4531	140	30.00	362	7/87	34.36	20
3	Shakib Al Hasan	Ban	49	3479	217	40.92	176	7/36	33.04	15
4	MH Mankad	Ind	44	2109	231	31.47	162	8/52	32.32	08
5	RJ Shastri	Ind	80	3830	206	35.79	151	5/75	40.96	02
6	AF Giles	Eng	54	1421	59	20.89	143	5/57	40.60	05
7	RA Jadeja	Ind	30	1004	90	27.88	139	7/48	23.45	08
8	W Rhodes	Eng	58	2325	179	30.19	127	8/68	26.96	06
9	N Boje	SAF	43	1312	85	25.23	100	5/62	42.65	03

RA Jadeja’s run aggregate at the end  of the second day of the Dharamsala test between India and Australia read 1004. He has already captured 139 wickets. He  became the third Indian spin bowler to capture 100 plus wickets and score 1000 plus runs in the annals of test cricket.  The performance of  these three  cricketers is listed below

No	Player	Team	Mat	Runs	HS	Bat Av	Wkts	BBI	Bowl Av	5
1	MH Mankad	Ind	44	2109	231	31.47	162	8/52	32.32	8
2	RJ Shastri	Ind	80	3830	206	35.79	151	5/75	40.96	2
3	RA Jadeja	Ind	30	1004	90	27.88	139	7/48	23.45	8