Statistical highlights

5th Test, Day 2 at Kingston

** The sixth wicket partnership of 109 runs between Shivnarine Chanderpaul and Ridley Jacobs just failed to better the best for the West Indies against India at this venue and for this wicket by one run. The best still remains as the 110 between Gary Sobers and Frank Worrell in March 1962.

** Merv Dillon, who recorded his highest Test score of 43, in the previous Test match at St John's, registered his 19th duck of his career in his 46th innings and 26th Test. Among batsmen who have 12 or more ducks, Dillon's duck frequency of 41.30% is the second worst in Test cricket history. He is just behind England's Alan Mullally's duck frequency of 44.44% (12 ducks in 27 innings). Following Dillon is former Indian left-arm spinner Dilip Doshi with a frequency of 36.84%, which is 14 ducks in 38 innings.

** For the first time in his career since his debut in 1994, Chanderpaul has crossed an aggregate of 500-plus runs in a series. He now has 503 runs. His previous best was the 443 runs he made in 5 Tests also against India when the latter toured the Caribbean in 1997.

** For the first time in his career Harbhajan Singh (5-138) has taken a five-wicket haul in a Test match away from home. His previous best figures were the 4-71 against Zimbabwe at Harare in June 2001.

** Meanwhile, Harbhajan becomes the first Indian spinner to take a five-wicket haul in an away Test match since left-arm spinner Sunil Joshi, who claimed 5-142 against Bangladesh at Dhaka in November 2000. Incidentally the last Indian off-spinner to take a five-wicket haul in an away Test match was Arshad Ayub who had taken 5-117 also against the Windies at Port of Spain in April 1989.

** Interestingly, Harbhajan becomes the first visiting right arm off-spinner to take a five wicket haul at this venue. The previous best figures by an off-spinner were 4-35 by Australian Bruce Yardley in May 1978. Other than Harbhajan the only other off-spinner to take a five-wicket haul at Sabina Park is West Indian Nehemiah Perry who claimed 5-70 against Australia in March 1999.

** At 21 years 320 days Harbhajan also became the youngest bowler to take a five-plus-wicket haul at this ground. Former West Indian fast bowler Wes Hall was 22 years 158 days when he claimed 7-69 against England in February 1960.

** Sachin Tendulkar during his knock of 41 runs (when on 11) became the second Indian batsman (after Sunil Gavaskar 5055 runs) and the 10th batsman in Test cricket history to aggregate 4000 runs in 'away' Test matches. Australian Allan Border holds the record for the maximum runs scored on foreign soil - 5431 runs in 70 matches. Tendulkar now has 4030 runs in 54 matches.