By IANS
Kolkata : Pakistan’s 456 in the first innings against India on the fourth day of the second Test match was their highest total at the Eden Gardens, eclipsing their 393 in March 2005.
The other statistical highlights of the fourth day were:
# The 91-run stand between Misbah-ul-Haq and Mohammad Sami for the seventh wicket is Pakistan’s best at Eden Gardens, bettering the 88-run partnership between Mushtaq Mohammad and Intikhab Alam in 1960-61.
# Harbhajan Singh (5/122) produced his 20th five-wicket haul – his second against Pakistan.
# In the 2004-05 Bangalore Test, he had claimed six wickets for 152 runs in Pakistan’s innings of 570.
# Harbhajan became the first bowler to claim five wickets or more in an innings FIVE times at Eden Gardens as under:
Wkts. Opponents Season Result
7/87 South Africa 2004-05 Won
7/123 Australia 2000-01
6/73 Australia 2000-01 Won
5/115 West Indies 2002-03 Drawn
5/122 Pakistan 2007-08 Awaited
# Bedi’s feat of claiming five wickets in an innings against four different opponents at Eden Gardens is an outstanding one.
# Both Harbhajan (38 in six Tests at 21.34 runs apiece) and Anil Kumble (38 in eight Tests at 30.52 runs apiece) have the same number of wickets at Eden Gardens.
# With three catches in Pakistan’s innings, Rahul Dravid took his career tally to 157, overtaking Allan Border’s 156 and equalling Mark Taylor’s 157. Now only Mark Waugh (181), Brian Lara (164) and Stephen Fleming (161) have held more catches than Dravid.
# Dravid, in the process, equalled Sunil Gavaskar’s record of 19 catches in India-Pakistan Tests.
# Wasim Jaffer (202 & 56) became the first Indian batsman to have recorded a double century and a fifty (202 & 56) in the same Test match against Pakistan. For Pakistan, only Younis Khan has achieved the feat against India – 267 & 84 not out at Bangalore in 2004-05.
# Jaffer, thanks to his three fifty-plus innings in succession, became the first to aggregate 300 runs – 343 (ave.85.75) in four innings – in the current series.
# Laxman claimed his second wicket in Test cricket, his victim being Mohammed Sami. His first victim was Adam Sanford (West Indies) in the St. John’s Test in May 2002.
# Sami (38) registered his best score away from home – his second best in Test cricket, next only to his 49 against India at Rawalpindi in 2003-04.