First-day wickets, and Kotla's bat-first rule

0 Number of times the team winning the toss has elected to bowl first in the 33 Tests played at the Feroz Shah Kotla. In this Test, too, Virat Kohli opted to bat first. Among all venues which have hosted more than ten Tests, Kotla is the only one where no team has ever opted to field. However, teams batting first at this venue have done worse than those batting second, with a win-loss record of 5-13.

1 Previous instances of an India captain winning all tosses in a Test series of four or more matches. MAK Pataudi had won the toss in each of the five Tests of a series against England in 1963-64. Kohli has won the toss in each of the four Tests of this series.

231-7 India's first-innings total, the highest in this series so far, going past their 215 in the first innings in Nagpur. The lowest top team total in a series of four-plus Tests, before this, was 320, during England's tour of Australia in 1881-82.

89* Runs made by Ajinkya Rahane in India's first innings, the highest score by a batsman in this series, overtaking AB de Villiers' 85 in Bangalore. This is still the only series involving four or more Tests that has not seen an individual hundred. At least two centuries have been scored in every Test series with four or matches.

41 Total number of wickets that have fallen on the first days of the four Tests of this series - 12 wickets on the first day of Mohali Test, 10 in Bangalore, 12 in Nagpur and seven in this match. This tally equals the most wickets that have fallen on the first days of matches of a bilateral Test series of four or fewer matches - the last such occurrence was in 1895-96 in the three-match series between England and South Africa. The only other such instance had come in 1881-82 in a series between England and Australia.

47 Runs accumulated by Ajinkya Rahane in his previous six Test innings in India - scores of 7, 1, 15, 2, 13, and 9. He scored an unbeaten 89 in this innings. Rahane averages 46.37 outside India and had averaged only 7.83 in India before this innings.

4 Wickets Dane Piedt has taken in each of his three Test innings including his 4 for 101 in this Test. He had taken 4 for 90 and 4 for 62 on his debut against Zimbabwe .

1.35 Kyle Abbott's economy, currently the best by any bowler at Kotla who has bowled at least 15 overs in a Test innings.