West Indies’ Roston Chase played a brilliant innings of 137* off 269 balls and took his team to a draw against India on the final day of the second Test in Kingston on Wednesday.
India were just six wickets away from winning the Test and attaining a 2-0 lead in the series when the home team resumed their innings at 48/4 on day five. However, Chase’s maiden hundred and determined fifties from Jermaine Blackwood, Shane Dowrich and Jason Holder kept India at bay.
The Quint takes a look at the seven intersting records set during the second Test between India and West Indies.
1. The Consistent Ajinkya Rahane
After scoring a century in the first innings of the second Test, Ajinkya Rahane became the only Indian player to record at least a single score of 90 or more runs in each of the last eight series.
This is the eight consecutive Test series in which the Mumbai lad has made at least one score of 90 or more, starting from the 2013-14 tour of South Africa. He has scored at least one century in six of the eight series, and scored 96 in South Africa in 2013 and 98 in Bangladesh in 2015.
2. Ravichandran Ashwin – The Third Quickest to 18 Fifers
Ravichandran Ashwin picked up his 18th five-wicket haul in Tests during West Indies’ first innings. Ashwin, who achieved the feat in his 34th Test match, is the third quickest to reach the milestone.
Only Sydney Barnes (24) and Waqar Younis (31) have taken fewer Tests to take 18 fivers.
3. Roston Chase Enters The Elite League
Roston Chase scored 137* runs during West Indies’ second innings and took a five-for during India’s first innings.
He has joined the elite league of four West Indies batsmen who have scored a century and taken a five-wicket haul in the same Test match.
Roston Chase also became the sixth player to score his maiden century and take his maiden five-wicket haul in the same Test match. The other five who have achieved the same milestone are Jimmy Sinclair, Charles Kelleway, Jack Gregory, Denis Atkinson and Bruce Taylor.
4. The Joint Most Sixes Hit in a Test Match in the Caribbean
In this match, West Indies batsmen hit 14 sixes while Indian batsmen hit 8 sixes, therefore a total of 22 sixes were struck, the joint most in a Test match in the Caribbean. A total of 22 sixes was also hit during the Test match between West Indies and South Africa in Basseterre in 2010.
5. Jermaine Blackwood Joins Sehwag
Jermaine Blackwood’s strike rates in the first innings and second innings of this match were 100.00 and 116.67 respectively. Therefore, he became the second player in the history of Test cricket to record a hundred-plus strike rate in each innings of a Test match. (minimum 50 runs in each innings).
Virender Sehwag was the other player to achieve the milestone. His strike rate was over 100 in each of the innings in the Test match against West Indies in 2011. He scored 55 runs off 46 balls and 55 balls in the first and second innings respectively.
6. KL Rahul’s Unique Achievements
After KL Rahul scored 158 runs in the first innings of the second Test, he became the second Indian player to convert his first three Test fifties into centuries. Mohammad Azharuddin was the other Indian player to achieve that feat and he did that in his first three Tests.
The Karnataka lad also became the fifth Indian player to score a hundred in his maiden innings in West Indies. The other four Indians who achieved the same feat are Polly Umrigar, Brijesh Patel, Ravichandran Ashwin and Sanjay Manjrekar.
7. Most Runs Scored on the Last Day of a Test in the Caribbean
West Indies, who scored 340 runs on day five of the second Test with the loss of only two wickets, recorded the most runs on a final day of a Test match played in the Caribbean. The previous record was 321 runs which was scored on the sixth day during the fifth Test between England and West Indies in Port of Spain in 1960.
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