West Indies vs India, Second Test, Day 4 Stats Review: Mohammed Siraj’s best bowling, Ishan Kishan’s feat and other stats

Ind vs WI Day 4. (Pic source: RANDY BROOKS/AFP)

A brilliant fifer from Mohammed Siraj, followed by quick-fire fifties from the duo of Rohit Sharma and Ishan Kishan helped India set a massive 365 runs target in a rain-hit game. West Indies needs 289 runs on the final day to level the series while India need 8 wickets to whitewash the host

Speaking about the fourth day, West Indies started the day with an overnight score of 229/5, they batted just 7.4 overs and added 26 runs, as Mohammed Siraj rattled the tail by registering his second fifer in Tests. He also registered his best bowling figures in the Test innings. West Indies were bowled out for 255, giving India 183 runs lead in the first innings.

India started the second innings in style in a rain-interrupted day. The openers got off to a flier as they went onto T20 mode, as they scored 50 runs in 5 overs. Rohit Sharma scored a 35-ball fifty, the third fastest by an Indian opener before getting dismissed to Shannon Gabriel for a 44-ball 57, while his partner Yashasvi Jaiswal smashed 30-balls-38 before miscuing a slog sweep to the wicket-keeper off Jomel Warrican.

Ishan Kishan was promoted ahead of Virat Kohli and he justified his promotion by taking the bowlers to the cleaners as Kishan smashed 50 off 33 balls, the second fastest by an Indian wicket-keeper, while Shubman Gill remained unbeaten for a 37-ball 29. The duo of Kishan and Gill added 79 runs inside 12 overs before Rohit Sharma declared at 181/2 in 24 overs, leaving the target of 365 to get in four sessions for West Indies.

Chasing 365 in four sessions, West Indies got off to a decent start, before Ravichandran Ashwin drew the first blood by setting up Brathwaite for 52-ball 28. In his very next over Ashwin trapped debutant Kirk McKenzie for a duck. Blackwood batted 39 balls without losing his wicket, scoring 20 runs while Chanderpaul remained unbeaten on 24 off 98 balls as West Indies ended day four with 76 runs for the loss of two wickets

Meanwhile, let us look at the stats and numbers from day four of the second Test between West Indies and India:

2 -Ishan Kishan smashed fifty off just 33 balls, the second fastest fifty by an Indian wicket-keeper in Tests. Rishabh Pant tops the list with a 28-ball fifty against Sri Lanka at Bengaluru in 2022

3 -Rohit Sharma scored his fifty off 35 balls, the third fastest by an Indian opener in Tests. Virender Sehwag accounts for the first two spots with 32 and 33 balls against England and West Indies, respectively.

7.54 -India scored 181 in the second innings at the run rate of 7.54, the most by a team in the third innings of a Test Match with a minimum of 20 overs batted. Australia scored at a run rate of 7.53 against Pakistan in 2017 at Sydney

104 -Rohit Sharma has completed 104 internationals fifty-plus scores, the second most among the Indian openers across formats. Sachin Tendulkar tops the list with 120 fifty-plus scores

13 -Rohit Sharma equaled Virat Kohli’s tally of 13 fifty-plus scores, the second joint most fifty-plus scores in WTC. Cheteshwar Pujara tops the list with 16.

6 -Ishan Kishan became the sixth Indian wicket-keeper to bat at number four in Tests alongside Naren Tamhane, Budhi Kunderan, Syed Kirmani, Farokh Engineer, and Nayan Mongia.

8.28 -Rohit Sharma and Yashasvi Jaiswal scored at a run rate of 8.28, the second-highest run rate for a opening pair with minimum 50 runs in an innings. Marcus Trescothick and Michael Vaughan top the list with a run rate of 10 against Sri Lanka at Manchester in 2002

466 -Rohit Sharma and Yashasvi Jaiswal aggregated 466 runs for the first wicket in three innings, the third most by an opening pair in a two-match Test Series. Graeme Smith and Neil McKenzie aggregated 479 against Bangladesh in 2008, topping the list while 469 between Dean Elgar and Aiden Markram against Bangladesh in 2017 is next in the list.

8 -Ravichandran Ashwin has dismissed Kraigg Brathwaite for the 8th time in Tests.

Ravichandran Ashwin dismissing a batter most times in Tests

11 -Ben Stokes

11 -David Warner

9 -Alastair Cook

8 -Kraigg Brathwaite

8 -Tom Latham

5/60 -Mohammed Siraj registered his best bowling figure of 5/60 in a Test innings bettering his previous best of 5/73 which came against Australia at Brisbane in 2021

75 -Ravichandran Ashwin (75)  surpasses Anil Kumble’s tally of 74 wickets and he is second n the list of leading wicket-taker for India against West Indies in Tests. Kapil Dev tops the chart with 89 wickets