INd vs WI: While England’s Bazball has taken Test cricket by storm, and most recently on Thursday and Friday in Manchester, it was India’s aggressive batting that broke and created some records on Sunday against West Indies in the ongoing 2nd IND vs WI Test of the series in Port of Spain, Trinidad.
On Day 4 in Trinidad, after bowling West Indies out for 255 in their first innings, which was in reply to India’s first innings total of 438, the Indian batters had to adopt an aggressive batting route to push for a win on a placid, lifeless surface and especially with rain threatening to reduce time and overs out of the game.
India batters came out all guns blazing in their second innings in 2nd IND vs WI Test and smoked away 181/2 in only 24 overs before declaring the innings.
Here are 5 records made by India’s batsmen in their attacking second innings of 2nd IND vs WI Test:
Rohit Sharma’s blasts his quickest Test fifty
India captain Rohit Sharma blasted his quickest Test fifty, off 35 balls as he came out with all intent and blew the West Indies pacers away with his delightful hitting, cracking 5 fours and 3 sixes in his knock of 57 runs off 44 balls.
His 35-ball half-century is the 10th fastest Test fifty by Indians.
Rohit and Jaiswal attain new opening record in Test cricket
The fireworks in India’s second innings were started by Yashasvi Jaiswal, who skipped down the pitch and deposited Roach over cover for a maximum. Jaiswal scored 38 runs off 30 balls while Rohit hogged the majority of the strike in their partnership of 98 runs in 11.5 overs.
After 10 overs, India were 90-0 – the most runs scored by a side at that point in an innings.
Most runs by team in first 10 overs in Tests:
90 – India🇮🇳 v WI, today
80 – England🏴 v PAK, 2022
78 – West Indies🏝️ v NZ, 2014
77 – Pakistan🇵🇰 v IND, 2005
76 – Bangladesh🇧🇩 v IND, 2007
(where data available)#WIvIND— Kausthub Gudipati (@kaustats) July 23, 2023
By the time Rohit was dismissed, he and Jaiswal had added 98 in 71 balls. The run rate of 8.28 makes it the quickest for any opening partnership more than 50 runs (though Marcus Trescothick and Michael Vaughan had once chased exactly 50 in five overs).
India soon reached the fastest first 100 runs in an innings in Test cricket in 12.2 overs.
India reach 100 in just 12.2 overs – the fastest recorded 100 for any team in Test cricket.#WIvIND
— Kausthub Gudipati (@kaustats) July 23, 2023
Rohit and Jaiswal have series to remember
Rohit and Jaiswal finished the series with 466 runs across three partnerships. This is now an Indian record for any Test series away from home, surpassing the 459 runs made by Sehwag and Akash Chopra across eight innings in Australia in 2004/05.
Even if considering home series, only Sunil Gavaskar and Chetan Chauhan (537 runs in 8 innings against Australia in 1979/80) and Sehwag and Gautam Gambhir (477 in 8 against Pakistan in 2004/05) have aggregated more runs for the first wicket.
India create new world-record in Test cricket
India’s innings in 2nd IND vs WI ended with the score of 181-2 in 24 overs – this is the fastest three-digit score (run rate of 7.54) in Test cricket history.
Scoring at 7.54 runs per over, they finished just ahead of Australia’s 7.53 (241-2 declared in 32 overs against Pakistan at Sydney in 2016/17).
Ishan Kishan joins Rishabh Pant
In his second Test match, Ishan Kishan brought the T20 mode as he whacked his maiden Test fifty off 33 balls. This is the second-fastest Test fifty by an Indian wicketkeeper, after Pant’s record of 28 balls.
