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Records galore for India

By Mohandas Menon

** The 170 run partnership between Rahul Dravid and Sachin Tendulkar was by far India's best at this venue for the third wicket bettering the previous best of 53 between Dilip Vengsarkar and Ravi Shastri in 1986.

** Tendulkar's unbeaten 185 is now India's best at this venue bettering the 148 achieved by both Pataudi Jr in 1967 and teammate Dravid in this match.

** Meanwhile Tendulkar's score was the third highest by an Indian in England after Sunil Gavaskar's 221 at the Oval in 1979 and Ravi Shastri's 187 also at the Oval in 1990. It was also a personal best for Tendulkar in a Test match on foreign soil. He bettered his previous highest score in an away Test match, which was the 177 also against England at Nottingham in 1996.

** Tendulkar in his 99th Test match recorded his 30th hundred, which takes him past the tally of 29 hundreds by Australian Sir Don Bradman. Now only Indian Sunil Gavaskar (34 hundreds) has more hundreds in Test cricket history. Interestingly, Gavaskar also scored his 30th hundred (236 not out v West Indies at Madras in 1983-84) in his 99th Test match.

** Tendulkar, when on 74, became Test cricket's seventh highest run scorer when he went past England's David Gower's aggregate of 8231 runs.

** The partnership of 249 between Tendulkar and Sourav Ganguly was India's third best ever for the fourth wicket in Tests. Interestingly, the top two partnerships for the fourth wicket for India have been achieved by this same pair - 281 against New Zealand at Ahmedabad in October 1999 and 256 against Sri Lanka at Mumbai in December 1997.

** The above partnership was India's best against England obliterating the 222 by Vijay Hazare and Vijay Manjrekar at the same ground in June 1952.

** India provided the fourth occasion when three partnerships exceeding 150-plus were achieved by a team in the same innings of a Test match. Australia at Lord's in 1930, West Indies (twice) at The Oval in 1976 and St John's in 1994 are the other teams to do so. England has been on the receiving end on all the four occasions.

** Though India on 11 other occasions has three hundreds in an innings, it was its first such feat against England in Tests.

** Tendulkar, now has 924 runs during this calendar year in 10 matches. He is now the highest run scorer this year in Tests, which betters the record of teammate Rahul Dravid who has 861 runs.

** India's total of 584-4 was its third highest on foreign soil. Incidentally, it was the 11th occasion that India has a 500-plus score on foreign soil. However India could not win any of these matches while drawing nine matches and losing one, while scoring 510 at this very venue in 1967.

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