Cricket statistician Rajneesh Gupta offers his insight into the gentleman's game like no one else!. You can e-mail the author at rgcricket@gmail.com
Under-pressure after aggregating only 105 runs in six innings of the previous three Tests against England, Raina batted for 39 minutes and faced 29 balls before returning to the pavilion without opening his account in India's first innings of The Oval Test on Saturday.
India have conceded more than 60 runs for each wicket in the series against England. This is India's second worst performance in a series of four or more Tests.
Alastair Cook moved to the top rung in the leading run-scores for 2011 after his marathon 294 in the third Test between England and India at Edgbaston last week.
Rajneesh Gupta shows a record in last 25 years, when the last-three wickets contributed more than the first seven in an innings.
A look at the top batsmen and bowlers in Test cricket in 2011.
India suffered a humiliating 319-run defeat at Nottingham. This was despite the fact that India gained first innings lead of 67! The margin is the biggest ever in Test history for a side that conceded first innings lead.
After the thrashing at Lord's, Indian team will be hoping for a reversal in their fortunes. They can take some solace from the fact that on three occasions out of last six, they have won the second Test of an overseas series after losing the first Test.
As India look to successfully chase down a daunting 458 for victory in the first Test against England at Lord's, here is a look of the highest fourth innings total at the home of cricket.
India's Rahul Dravid now holds the record of scoring more runs than any other batsman in fourth innings of a Test match.
As India and England prepare to square off in the first Test of the four-match series at Lord's, Rajneesh Gupta presents the many landmarks on the road to the 2000th match of cricket's longest version.
As Team India takes on England in the first Test at Lord's, Rajneesh Gupta takes a look at the career graph from both the teams.
Following Harbhajan Singh's milestone of 400 wickets in the third Test against the West Indies on Thursday, we present the leading wicket-takers in the longest format of the game.
The 63-run victory over the West Indies in the first Test is India's 15th under M S Dhoni's captaincy. Only Sourav Ganguly has led India to more Test wins - 21.
India take on the West Indies in the first of five matches, in the One-Day International series, in Port of Spain on Monday. A look a the records of players from both teams.
Statistical highlights after the second week of the ongoing Indian Premier League.
Ireland's Kevin O'Brien blasted the fastest century in a World Cup to guide his country to one of the biggest shocks of the tournament with victory over the old enemy England in Bangalore, on Wednesday.
West Indies' Kemar Roach became the first West Indies bowler to pick up a hat-trick in World Cup on Monday. Roach picked up the wickets of Pieter Seelaar, Bernard Loots and Berend Westdijk to also register the first hat-trick of the World Cup 2011.
Following are the match stats between India and England.
A look at the shortest matches after the World Cup match between New Zealand and Kenya, in Chennai on Sunday, finished in just 31.5 overs.
A statistical look at the previous World Cups.
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