The rain gods saved India from a certain defeat at Lord's. This provided the 16th instance in Test cricket history of a side hanging onto a draw with 9 wickets down in the fourth innings of a Test.
When Kumble dismissed Strauss on Thursday, it was the tenth time he was dismissing a batsman in his nineties - most by any bowler in Test annals.
As India and England go into the first Test of the three-match series at Lord's on Thursday, here's a look at the highs and lows between the two teams.
He became only the fourth batsman in Test cricket history to score double centuries in successive innings.
He equalled Roger Binny's Indian record of most wickets after first two matches of ODI career.
The Indian wicketkeeper scored an unbeaten 139 in the third and final Afro-Asia Cup match on Sunday.
Ashraful raced to his fifty in just 27 minutes and off 26 balls in Bangladesh's second innings of Mirpur Test.
India trounced Bangladesh in the second Test in Mirpur, Dhaka, on Sunday winning by an innings and 239 runs in just three days.
At 18 years 265 days Ishant Sharma is the youngest pace bowler to appear in a Test for India.
The Indian captain was involved in a world record 106-run partnership with Wasim Jaffer on Friday.
The last time India successfully chased a target of 200 or more outside India was almost one year back - against West Indies at Kingston on May 18, 2006.
It was on India's last tour to Bangladesh, in December 2004, that the hosts registered their first ever limited-overs international victory. They beat their more fancied neighbours by 15 runs in one of the matches.
Among all wicketkeepers in the world, he is the third fastest to reach this landmark.
New Zealand in the third ODI vs Australia achieved the second highest winning total for a side batting second.
Rajneesh Gupta presents statistical analysis of the third ODI between India and Sri Lanka in Margao.
A look at the track record of the 15-man squad.
Before the Rajkot ODI both Ganguly and Tendulkar were levelled with 49 sixes on Indian soil from 64 and 124 innings respectively.
The Man of the series award was 12th for Tendulkar. Jayasuriya is second with 10 such awards.
Robin Uthappa's innings of 70 runs off 41 balls (SR-170.73) is the third best by any batsman scoring at least a fifty against West Indies
Statistical highlights, India - West Indies, 2nd ODI, Cuttack.
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