Statistical highlights

5th Test, Day 4 at Kingston

Statistical highlights - 4th day at Kingston

** Zaheer Khan's 4-79 in the second innings was his second best career figures in 16 Test matches. His best performance statistically still remain as the 4-76 against Sri Lanka at Kandy in August last year.

** Meanwhile Zaheer's above figures were the best by a genuine left-arm pace bowler (with the exception of Gary Sobers) at this venue.

** Harbhajan's match figures of 8-180 (5-138 + 3-42) were by far his best in an away Test match. It was the best match figures ever by an off-spinner at this venue.

The previous best figures were the 6-149 (1-49 + 5-70) by West Indian offie Nehemiah Perry against Australia in March 1999.

Incidentally, as on date, only two other slow bowlers have had better match figures at this venue than Harbhajan - 9-213 (5-64 + 4-149) by left-arm spinner Alf Valentine against India in March 1953 and 9-374 by right arm leg-spinner Tommy Scott against England in April 1930.

Indian leg-spinner Anil Kumble (8-196 in March 1997) is the other slow bowler to claim 8 wickets in the match at this venue.

** Playing in his 96th match and 154th innings, Sachin Tendulkar (86, when on 82) became the second Indian batsman and 10th overall to aggregate 8000 Test runs.

Though both West Indian Gary Sobers (91 matches) and Sunil Gavaskar (95) needed lesser number of Test matches to reach this milestone, Tendulkar required only 154 innings to do so - the least number of innings taken by any batsmen while reaching 8000 runs.

Sobers, the previous record holder needed 157 innings when he achieved his in 1974.

** At 29 years 27 days, Tendulkar is by far the youngest to reach this landmark. Pakistani Javed Miandad was 33 years 138 days when he achieved his feat in 1990.

** Earlier, during the course of his knock of 86 (when on 64) Tendulkar became the 8th Indian batsman and the 33rd overall to reach 1000 runs against the West Indies.

He was playing in his 13th match and 20th innings and now has 1022 runs against this team.

** For the first time in his career in 96 matches spanning twelve and half years of Test cricket Tendulkar has been dismissed 'bowled' in both innings of a Test match.

** Tendulkar's 86 was his just fourth 50-plus score in 29 innings while batting in the fourth innings of a Test match.

His other 50-plus scores being: 119 not out against England at Manchester in August 1990, where he helped his team draw the match; 136 against Pakistan in January 1999 (India lost the match) and 52 against Australia at Melbourne in December 1999 (India lost).

His record in the fourth innings of a Test match is: 757 runs in 29 innings at an average of 36.05) with two hundreds and two fifties.

** West Indian Pedro Collins became the only second left-arm bowler, after Zimbabwean Ray Price to dismiss Tendulkar on three separate occasions. Collins thus became the first left-arm pace bowler to capture Tendulkar's wicket on three occasions.