•  West Indies following-on at home

    When Virat Kohli enforced the follow-on on West Indies, it was only the eighth time West Indies were asked to follow-on at home. Interestingly the last such instance for them had also come against India – at Gros Islet in 2006.

    Vs

    Venue

    Season

    Result

    Eng

    Georgetown

    1953-54

    Eng

    9 wickets

    Aus

    Kingston

    1954-55

    Aus

    9 wickets

    Eng

    Port-of-Spain

    1967-68

    		  

    Drawn

    Eng

    Kingston

    1967-68

    		  

    Drawn

    Ind

    Kingston

    1970-71

    		  

    Drawn

    Aus

    Bridgetown

    2002-03

    Aus

    9 wickets

    Ind

    Gros Islet

    2006

    		  

    Drawn

    Ind

    North Sound

    2016

    		  

    To be seen
  • India enforcing the follow-on on West Indies

    This was the sixth instance of an Indian captain enforcing the follow-on on West Indies.

    Venue

    Season

    Result

    Captain

    Kingston

    1970-71

    		  

    Drawn

    Ajit Wadekar

    Delhi

    1978-79

    		  

    Drawn

    Sunil Gavaskar

    Mumbai WS

    2002-03

    Ind

    Inn. & 112 runs

    Sourav Ganguly

    Gros Islet

    2006

    		  

    Drawn

    Rahul Dravid

    Kolkata

    2011-12

    Ind

    Inn. & 15 runs

    MS Dhoni

    North Sound

    2016

     

    To be seen

    Virat Kohli
  • India enforcing the follow-on outside the subcontinent

    Virat Kohli became only the sixth Indian to enforce follow-on on the opposition in a Test outside the subcontinent.

    Vs

    Venue

    Season

    Result

    Captain

    WI

    Kingston

    1970-71

    		  

    Drawn

    Ajit Wadekar

    Aus

    Sydney

    1985-86

    		  

    Drawn

    Kapil Dev

    Eng

    The Oval

    1990

    		  

    Drawn

    M Azharuddin

    Eng

    Headingley

    2002

    Ind

    Inn. & 46 runs

    Sourav Ganguly

    WI

    Gros Islet

    2006

    		  

    Drawn

    Rahul Dravid

    WI

    North Sound

    2016

     

    To be seen

    Virat Kohli
  • India enforced the follow-on outside India but in the subcontinent

    In the following instances India enforced the follow-on outside India but in the subcontinent

    Vs

    Venue

    Season

    Result

    Captain

    Pak

    Multan

    2003-04

    Ind

    Inn. & 52 runs

    Rahul Dravid

    Ban

    Chittagong

    2004-05

    Ind

    Inn. & 83 runs

    Sourav Ganguly

    Ban

    Mirpur

    2007

    Ind

    Inn. & 239 runs

    Rahul Dravid

    Ban

    Fatullah

    2015

     

    Drawn

    Virat Kohli
  • Quickest to 50 Test wickets for India

    Mohammed Shami – wrecker-in-chief - for India, also accomplished a personal feat. Shami completed his 50 wickets in Test cricket. By taking only 13 Tests, Shami equalled Venkatesh Prasad’s Indian record of being the fastest pacer to do so. 

    Bowler

    Test

    Venkatesh Prasad

    13th

    Mohammed Shami

    13th

    Sreesanth

    14th

    Irfan Pathan

    14th

    Karsan Ghavri

    16th

    Kapil Dev

    16th