By IANS
Bangalore : India set a dubious world record by conceding 76 extras in the first innings of the third and the final Test lead against Pakistan in the final Test match here Tuesday.
India erased the record of 71 extras by West Indies against Pakistan at Georgetown in April 1988. India also conceded 35 byes, which is the second highest tally in an innings – the record is held by England, who had conceded 37 in Australia’s score of 327 at The Oval in 1934.
Other statistical highlights of the day are as follows:
# Pakistan (537) in successive Tests at Chinnaswamy Stadium, have crossed 500. In the previous Test at this venue in March 2005, they had made 570.
# India (626) and Pakistan (537) have provided the fourth instance of rival sides scoring 500-plus in the first innings of the same Test – the first ever in India.
# Ishant Sharma (5/118) produced his first five-wicket haul in Tests, bettering his 1 for 19 against Bangladesh at Mirpur this year.
# Ishant is now the third Indian speedster after Karsan Ghavri (5 for 51 vs. West Indies in 1978-79) and Kapil Dev (5/68 vs. Pakistan in 1983-84) to claim five wickets in an innings at Chinnaswamy Stadium.
# Apart from Ishant and Kapil Dev, two Indian spinners have also claimed five wickets in an innings against Pakistan at this venue – Maninder Singh – 7 for 27 in 1986-87 and Harbhajan Singh – 6 for 152 in 2004-05.
# Kamran Akmal (65 off 114 balls) posted his 8th fifty – his second against India.
# Kamran was stumped by Dinesh Karthik. He became the third Pakistani wicketkeeper to be stumped by his Indian counterpart. Imtiaz Ahmed was stumped by Naren Tamahane off Subhash Gupte at Bahawalpur in 1954-55 and Salim Yousuf was stumped by Kiran More off Mohinder Amarnath at Ahmedabad in 1986-87.
# Yasir Arafat (5/161 + 44) became the first Pakistani all-rounder to have claimed 5 wickets in an innings and posted 40-plus on Test debut.
# Misbah-ul-Haq (133 not out) registered his second Test hundred – in successive Tests. In the second Test of the current series at Kolkata, he had posted his career-best score – 161 not out – in Pakistan’s first innings.
# Misbah is now the fourth batsman from Pakistan to register a hundred at Chinnaswamy Stadium, joining Mudassar Nazar – 126 in 1979-80; Younis Khan – 267 in 2004-05 and Inzamam-ul-Haq – 184 in 2004-05.
# Misbah amassed 427 runs at an average of 142.33 in five innings, including two centuries and one fifty – the best for Pakistan in the series. During the series, he has faced 1018 balls – the only one on either side to face more than 1000 balls.
# The 144-run partnership between Kamran and Misbah is their second century stand for the sixth wicket in successive Tests. In the Kolkata Test, the pair, with their 207-run partnership had equalled Pakistan’s sixth wicket record against India.
# The said partnership is the highest for the sixth wicket at Chinnaswamy Stadium, eclipsing the 56 by Javed Miandad and Wasim Bari in 1983-84.
# The 93-run stand between Misbah and Yasir Arafat is Pakistan’s best for the seventh wicket against India at Chinnaswamy Stadium, eclipsing the 58 between Younis Khan and Kamran Akmal in 2004-05.
# Wasim Jaffer (18) took his aggregate in the series to 378 at an average of 63.00.
# Sourav Ganguly (239 + 63 not out) became the sixth Indian batsman to have recorded 300 runs or more in a Test match, joining Sunil Gavaskar (344 vs. W.Indies at Port of Spain in 1970-71), V.V.S.Laxman (340 vs. Australia at Kolkata in 2000-01), Virender Sehwag (309 vs. Pakistan at Multan in 2003-04), Rahul Dravid (305 vs. Australia at Adelaide in 2003-04) and Sachin Tendulkar vs. Australia at Sydney in 2003-04.
# Ganguly has aggregated 506 (ave.101.20) in the series. He is the fifth Indian to amass 500-plus in a Test series against Pakistan, joining Mohinder Amarnath (584 in 6 Tests in 1982-83), Sanjay Manjrekar (569 in 4 Tests in 1989-90), Virender Sehwag (544 in 3 Tests in 2004-05) and Sunil Gavaskar (529 in 6 Tests in 1979-80).
# Rahul Dravid, with a third wicket century stand with Sourav Ganguly, has extended his world record for sharing in most century stands (69).