England v India 2014 - 3rd Test, Day 4: Facts and figures

Alastair Cook bats during day 4

India started the day four of the Rose Bowl Test match against England with the score at 323/8, hopeful of avoiding the follow-on target of 370. But opposition attack leader James Anderson’s short ball barrage ended the innings with just 7 runs added in the morning. Home captain Alastair Cook opted to bat instead of enforcing a follow-on: a decision that came in for severe criticism.

However, looking at it in hindsight, with the score at 89/4 and the likes of Murali Vijay, Virat Kohli, Shikhar Dhawan and Cheteshwar Pujara back in the hut and still 356 more runs to chase at the time of writing this article, the decision hasn’t made a big difference. England declared their second innings at 205/4.

A short summary of day 4 in numbers:

0/179 – Pankaj Singh has now conceded the most number of runs without picking up a wicket on Test debut: worst Test debut of all time.

1 – First time Ravindra Jadeja has taken three or more wickets in an innings since capturing 6 for 138 against South Africa at Durban, 2013: a span 10 innings.

10 – Number of times Alastair Cook has scored 50 or more runs in both the innings of a Test match, including this one.

15 – Number of overs bowled by Rohit Sharma in this match. Stuart Binny bowled 20 in 2 Tests before getting dropped.

16 – With the two wickets he captured today, Anderson, playing his 97th Test match, registered his 16th five-wicket haul in Test matches.

62 – Number of 50+ scores for Cook in Tests, equalling Ian Bell as the third-highest for England.

72 – Runs scored by England between overs 30 and 40 of their second innings.

445 – Target for India to win this match. India’s highest successful chase in a Test was 406/4, against West Indies, Port-of-Spain, 1976. 387/4 in Chennai, 2008, is their best against England. The highest target ever chased out in a Test match being 418: West Indies v Australia in 2003 at St John’s.

2001 – The first and only time India won a Test after conceding a 200+ lead batting second: v Australia, Eden Gardens.

29 – India have never had a 50+ run partnership for the first wicket in 29 innings now.