A different way of looking at cricket stats!
Day 1, Faisalabad Test
0 – Number of wickets taken by spin duo of Kumble and Harbhajan. For the second successive time in the series, this pair has gone wicket-less on the opening day.
3 – Number of left-arm pacers played by India. First such instance in Indian Test cricket history.
22- Runs conceded by Irfan Pathan in one single over to Inzamam & Afridi. The sequence – 1,0 (no ball), 4, 0, 6, 6, 4.
55 –Number of Tests after which India were playing with 5 specialist bowlers. The last instance was against Zimbabwe at Nagpur in Nov. 2000 (Srinath, Zaheer, Agarkar, Sunil Joshi, Sarandeep)
56 – Number of boundaries hit by Pakistan batsmen (52 fours and four sixes)
64 – Runs scored by Pakistan batsmen in just 7.5 overs bowled with the second new ball.
107 – Average by which Younis Khan and Mohammad Yousuf together have aggregated runs for the third wicket partnership (750 runs in just seven innings).
252 –RP Singh’s Test cap number for India
379 –Pakistan’s total at close of play – highest score made in Pakistan on the first day of a Test (Previous best : 356 for two by India at Multan in 2003-04).
