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India has a poor record of just one win at Lord's
Wednesday, July 17 2002 15:46 Hrs (IST)
By Keshavamurthy C

Bangalore: India will be facing England in the first of the 4 Test series at Lord's from July 25. England has a win percentage of 36.27 in the 102 Tests played so far against all countries at Lord's, popularly known as the 'Mecca' of cricket grounds.

India has played 13 Tests here out of which it has won only once in 1986 when it also won the series, lost 9 and drawn the remaining 3 Tests.

Playing record for England at Lord's
P W L D
Aus 32 5 13 14
Ind 13 9 1 3
NZ 13 5 1 7
Pak 11 3 3 5
SA 12 6 3 3
SL 4 2 - 2
WI 16 6 4 6
Zim 1 1 - -
Total 102 37 25 40
Highest Total
For Eng 653/4 d vs Ind 1990
Ag Eng 729/6 d by Aus 1930
454 by Ind 1990
Lowest Total
For Eng 53 vs Aus 1888
134 vs Ind 1936
Ag Eng 42 by Ind 1974
Highest Individual Score
For Eng 333 GA Gooch vs Ind 1990
Ag Eng 254 DG Bradman For Aus 1930
184 MH Mankad For Ind 1952

Centuries:

A total of 165 centuries (including 9 double hundreds and 1 triple hundred) have come at Lord's out of which England's share is 81 and opponents' 84. Apart from Gooch's triple hundred and Bradman's double hundred as above, the other double centurions at this venue are W R Hammond, J B Hobbs, D S C Compton and J Hardstaff Jr of England, C G Greenidgse of West Indies, W A Brown of Australia, M P Donnelly of New Zealand and Mohsin Khan of Pakistan.

Those who have narrowly missed the distinction of scoring a double century are A R Border (196) and W Bardsley (193*) of Australia, Len Hutton (196) of England and S Wettimuni (190) of Sri Lanka.

Gooch has the distinction of scoring a triple hundred and a century in the same Test in 1990. India's Dilip Vengsarkar is the only one in the entire list of centurions to have scored 3 centuries in successive appearances at this venue in 1979, 1982 and 1986.

The other centurions for India are S C Ganguly (on debut in 1996), M Azharuddin, G R Viswanath and R J Shastri, Mankad has top scored for India as indicated above.

Among the Englishmen who have scored hundreds (other than indicated above) against India are D L Amiss, T W Graveney, L Hutton, A J Lamb, D W Randal, R C Russell, M H Denness, A W Greig, T G Evans and R A Smith.

Nineties:

There have been 33 instances of 90 plus scores including six instances of a batsman being dismissed at the score of 99. The unfortunate ones are E Payner, M J K Smith and M A Atherton of England, and C G McCartney, R Edwards and M E Waugh of Australia.

The only instance of a 90 plus score by an Indian at this venue is by Rahul Dravid who made 95 on debut in 1996.

Best Match Bowling:
For Eng 15/104 (7/61 & 8/43) H Verity vs Aus 1934
11/15 (7/49 & 4/96) AV Bedser vs Ind 1946
Ag Eng 16/137 (8/84 & 8/53) RAL Massie for Aus 1972
No instance of 10 WM by an India at this venue.
Best Innings Bowling
For Eng 8-34 IT Botham vs Pak 1978
7-49 AV Bedser vs Ind 1946
Ag Eng 8-38 GD McGrath for Aus 1997
6-35 L Amarsingh for Ind 1936

5 or more wickets in an innings:

There have been 116 instances of taking 5 or more wickets in an innings including the above four listed, out of which England has accounted for 76 and the other 40 by its opponents.

Apart from Amarsingh, only BS Bedi in 1974 has claimed 6 wickets in an innings (six for 222) for India. The others who have taken five wickets an innings for India are Mohammed Nissar, L Amarnath, M H Mankad, R B Desai, B S Chandrasekhar, Kapil Dev, C J Sharma and B K V Prasad.

For England apart from Bedser, the others to take 6 wickets in an innings against India are R Illingworth (6/29 in 1967) and RGD Willis (6/101 in 1982).

The other Englishmen who have taken 5 wickets in an innings against India are C M Old, G O B Allen, T Greenhough, I T Botham and A R C Fraser.

Best Partnership for each wicket (involving all countries):
1^st wkt 268 JB Hobbs/H Sutcliffe Eng/SA 1924
2^nd wkt 287* HA Games/CG Greenidge WI/Eng 1984
3^rd wkt 370 DCS Compton/WJ Edrich Eng/SA 1947
4^th wkt 248 DCS Compton/L Hutton Eng/WI 1939
5^th wkt 216 AR Border/GM Ritchie Aus/Eng 1985
6^th wkt 274* DAJ Holford/GS Sobers WI/Eng 1966
7^th wkt 174 MC Cowdrey/TG Evans Eng/WI 1957
8^th wkt 246 GOB Allen/LEG Ames Eng/NZ 1931
9^th wkt 130 GF Lawson/SR Waugh Aus/Eng 1989
10^th wkt 83 R Illingworth/JA Snow Eng/WI 1969
The best partnerships for eack wicket involving India/England are as under:
England Wkt Runs Test Series
Atherton, MA & Gooch, GA 1st 204 1st 1990
Amiss, DL & Edrich, JH 2nd 221 2nd 1974
Gooch, GA & Lamb, AJ 3rd 308 1st 1990
Gooch, GA & Smith, RA 4th 192 1st 1990
Denness, MH & Greig, AW 5th 202 2nd 1974
Evans, TG & Graveney, TW 6th 159 2nd 1952
Edmonds, PH & Randall, DW 7th 125 1st 1982
Miller, G & Taylor, RW 8th 103 2nd 1979
Gifford, N & Snow, JA 9th 71 1st 1971
Allott, PJW & Willis, RGD 10th 70 1st 1982
India Wkt Runs Test Series
Engineer, FM & Gavaskar, SM 1st 131 2nd 1974
Amarnath, M & Gavaskar, SM 2nd 59 1st 1986
Hazare, VS & Mankad, MH 3rd 211 2nd 1952
Contractor, NJ & Ghorpade, JM 4th 83 2nd 1959
Vengsarkar, DB & Yashpal Sharma 5th 142 1st 1982
Dravid, RS & Ganguly, SC 6th 94 2nd 1996
Kardar, AH & Modi, RS 7th 57 1st 1946
Amar Singh, L & Lall Singh 8th 74 1st 1932
Kapil Dev, N & Madan Lal, S 9th 66 1st 1982
Modi, RS & Shinde, SG 10th 43 1st 1946

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