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Stats: India's poor show in Tests continues
Statistical highlights of the fifth day and final day's play in the third cricket Test between India and England in Kolkata on Sunday.
# After losing consecutive Tests to South Africa by four wickets at Mumbai and by an innings and 71 runs at Bangalore in 1999-2000, India lost successive Tests for the first time in India -- by 10 wickets at Wankhede Stadium and by seven wickets at Eden Gardens.
# India have lost six out of the last seven Tests played against England. Since their series win by 2-1 in the 1984-85 Test series, England have won two Tests in a rubber for the first time in India.
# India's last defeat (before today's loss) at Eden Gardens was by 46 runs to Pakistan in 1998-99. In 38 Tests played at this venue, India have won 10, lost 9 and drawn 19.
Ashwin has bagged 11 wickets and amassed 214 runs
# R Ashwin's unbeaten 91 is his second highest innings in Tests, behind the 103 against West Indies in the 2011-12 Mumbai Test.
# India could not win any of the Tests when Ashwin registered four fifty-plus innings.
# For the first time in a Test rubber, Ashwin bagged 10 wickets or more (11 at 52.00) and amassed 200 runs or more (214 at 53.50).
# Just six Indian batsmen have registered more in an innings while playing at number eight position against England.
Pragyan Ojha is leading wicket-taker for India
# Ashwin and Pragyan Ojha put on 50 for the 10th wicket -- India's second highest against England at Eden Gardens, behind the 51 between Nadkarni and Chandrasekhar in January 1964.
# Pragyan Ojha, with 19 wickets at an average of 25.05, is the leading wicket-taker for India in the first three Tests of the series. Graeme Swann is the top wicket-taker for England with 17 wickets.
Records galore for Cook
# Alastair Cook has been stumped in a Test innings for the second time -- the first occasion being after making a hundred (106), by Prasanna Jayawardene off Rangana Herath at Lord's last year.
# Cook set another record -- his tally of 12 hundreds in a winning cause is a record for England in Test cricket.
# Cook's match-winning innings (190) got him his second Man of the Match award against India -- his fifth in Test cricket.
# Kevin Pietersen posted his ninth duck in Tests -- his first against India.
# England's victory by seven wickets is their second in 10 Tests against India at Eden Gardens. The last occasion when England won two Tests in a row in India was during the 1976-77 Test series. In fact, they had lost three Tests in a row -- by an innings and 25 runs at Delhi; by 10 wickets at Kolkata and by 200 runs at Chennai.