Stats Analysis

India extend enviable Mohali record

This was India's seventh win in 13 Tests at this venue, where they're unbeaten since 1994

Shiva Jayaraman
29-Nov-2016
India haven't lost a Test in Mohali since 1994

India haven't lost a Test in Mohali since 1994  •  ESPNcricinfo Ltd

7 Tests won by India out of the 13 they have played in Mohali; The only time they lost at this venue was in the inaugural Test at the venue, against West Indies 22 years ago. Since then India have won seven and drawn five matches. Their win-loss record of 7-0 at here is the third-best for any team at any venue the last 20 years.
16 Number of consecutive undefeated Tests for India including this win - their second-longest unbeaten sequence. Their longest such sequence consisted of 17 matches between 1985 and 1987. Click here for a list of the longest undefeated sequence for any team.
12 Number of Tests wins by Virat Kohli as captain - equals the most won by any India captain in his first 20 Tests. MS Dhoni had and identical win-loss record of 12-2 in his first-20 Tests. Only five other captains - Steve Waugh (15), Mike Brearley (14), Lindsay Hassett (14), Michael Vaughan (14) and Ricky Ponting (13) - have won more matches in their first 20 Tests.
17-1 India's win-loss record in Tests at home when they have lost the toss since the start of 2006 - by far the best for any team during this period. The next-best in this list are Australia who have a 16-5 record in 26 Tests at home when they have lost the toss. During the same period, India's record when they win the toss at home is 14-4.
4426* Gap in terms of number of days (12 years, 44 days) between Parthiv Patel's Test fifty in India's second innings and his previous one - against Australia in Chennai in 2004, the second biggest t for any Indian. Lala Amarnath had the longest such gap. In a career paused by the World War II, he went 12 years and 190 days between his century against England in Mumbai in 1933 and his fifty at Lord's in 1946.
11 Number of fifty-plus scores by Joe Root in Tests in 2016 - the most by any batsman this year. There have been only four instances when an England batsman has made 11 or more fifty-plus score in a calendar year. Root himself leads this list with 13 such scores in 2015.
640 Number of balls faced by Haseeb Hameed in the series so far - already the sixth-highest by any batsman in his debut series in Tests since 2000. Michael Clarke is the only batsman to have faced more deliveries than Hameed on a debut series in India. Clarke faced 722 balls in his debut series in 2004-05. Hameed has faced by the second-most balls by any batsman in this series.
66 Runs by Murali Vijay in the last-five innings after his hundred in the first innings in Rajkot. Vijay's average from the third Test of any series witnesses a steep drop as compared with the first-two Tests. He averages 33.47, 25.50 and 10.00 (from one Test) in the third, fourth and fifth Tests of series. In the first-two Tests, he averages 44.67.
* Days calculated from the start of the Tests

Shiva Jayaraman is a senior stats analyst at ESPNcricinfo.com. @shiva_cricinfo