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A miscellany of records between India & West Indies
March 2002
By Keshavamurthy C
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Some statistical highlights cannot be straight jacketed to fit a particular category. Here goes a few such instances:
| Zero and century in a match | | Ind | 0 & 163* | ML Apte | Port of Spain | 1952/53 | | | 116 & 0 | NS Sidhu | Kingston | 1988/89 | | (Note: M Prabhakar also scored 100 & 0 at Mohali, 1994/95; however he was retired hurt on 0 ) | | WI | 132 & 0 | GS Sobers | Port of Spain | 1970/71 | | | 0 & 103 | AI Kallicharan | Port of Spain | 1975/76 |
| Century and 5 Wickets in a match | | 172 & 5-107 | PR Umrigar | Ind | Port of Spain | 1961/62 | | 100 & 5-90 | OG Smith | WI | Delhi | 1958/59 | | 104& 5-63 | GS Soberts | WI | Port of Spain | 1970/71 |
| No wicket in a day's play: | | India scored 290 runs taking the score from 70/1 to 360/1 and WI replied with 15 for 0 | | On the 4th day of the Calcutta Test in 1978/79 |
| Wicket in 1st Over | | WV Raman (Ind) took a wicket of his 4th ball in test cricket when he dismissed CA | | Walsh at Madras in 1987/88 |
| Unusual dismissal (handled the ball) | | DL Haynes (WI) in 1983/84 in the Bombay test played a ball from Kapil Dev which took and inside edge hit his pads and rolled slowly towards the stumps. Instead of getting it away by the bat, he brushed it away with his glove and on appeal he was declared out as'handled the ball'. |
| All ten batsmen caught in an innings: | | | | Ind | at Port of Spain | 1970/71 | | Ind | at Bridgetown | 1982/83 | | WI | at Bridgetown | 1982/83 | | The occurrence at Bridgetown in 1982/83 is a world record wherein 10 batsmen of each side in same test have all been caught in an innings. |
| Century and a Double Century in a match | | 124 & 220 | SM Gavaskar (Ind) | at Port of Spain | 1970/71 |
| Hundred in each innings of a match: | | 162 & 101 | ED Weekes (WI) | Calcutta | 1948/49 | | 124 & 220 | SM Gavaskar (Ind) | Port of Spain | 1970/71 | | 107 & 182 | SM Gavaskar (Ind) | Calcutta | 1978/79 |
| Winning all five tosses in a series: | | Clive Lloyd of WI won all tosses in the series in West Indies in1982/83 |
| Bowlers conceding over 200 runs in an innings: | | MH Mankad of India conceded over 200 runs at Kingston in 1952/53 (5/228) and | | at Bombay in 1948/49 (3/202) |
| Highest 4th innings total: | | India scored 406/4 and the won the test at Port of Spain in 1975/76. For a team batting last | | this is the highest score made by any team to a win test and is a world record. |
| Captaincy: | | Played | Won | Lost | Drawn | Toss Won/Lost | | SC Ganguly | India | 18 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 6/12 | | CL Hooper | West Indies | 12 | 2 | 7 | 3 | 8/4 |
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