IND vs ENG Stats Highlights from Day 4 of 2nd Test

IND vs ENG Stats : India defeated England by 317 runs in the second Test match at MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai on the fourth day and leveled the series 1-1 with two matches to go. On fourth day England resumed their batting on 53/3 and their batsmen couldn’t fight against the top quality bowling of Indian spinners and bowled out for just 164 runs and suffered a big 317 runs loss. For India spinner Axar Patel took 5 wickets while R Ashwin took 3 wickets in the second innings. Ravichandran Ashwin was named Man of the Match for his all round performance and now both the sides will play third Test match in day night format in Ahemdabad from next week.

Read : IND vs ENG : Updated WTC Points Table after Second Chennai Test : 

India vs England Statistical Highlights from fourth day of Second Test : A list of all the major stats and record which were recorded on the 4th day of 2nd Test

1 – For the first ever time Joe Root has failed to score a fifty plus score in a Test match in India. In the previous seven Test matches on Indian soil he scored at least one fifty plus score.

1 – This is also England’s first ever loss under the leadership of Joe Root in Asia. He has won all his previous six Test matches as captain in Asia.

6 – Axar Patel became the sixth Indian spinner to take five wickets in an innings on Test debut.

Indian Spinners to take five wickets in an innings on Test debut :
5/64 – Vaman Kumar vs PAK at Delhi, 1961
6/103 – Dilip Doshi vs AUS at Chennai, 1979
8/61 & 8/75 – Narendra Hirwani vs WI at Chennai, 1988
5/71 – Amit Mishra vs AUS at Mohali, 2008
6/47 – R Ashwin vs WI at Delhi, 2011
5/60 – Axar Patel vs ENG at Chennai, 2021 

21 – This was Virat Kohli’s 21st Test win as captain of India in India. He has equaled MS Dhoni’s record of 21 Test wins at home.

Most Test Wins as Indian Captain at home :
21 – Virat Kohli (28 Tests)
21 – MS Dhoni (30 Tests)
13 – M Azharuddin (20 Tests)
10 – Sourav Ganguly (21 Tests)
7 – Sunil Gavaskar (29 Tests) 

317 – Runs win is the biggest win for India against England in terms of runs and overall it’s their fifth biggest win in terms of runs in Test Cricket.

Biggest Wins for India in Test Cricket (By Runs) :
337 vs South Africa at Delhi, 2015
321 vs New Zealand at Indore, 2016
320 vs Australia at Mohali, 2008
318 vs West Indies at North Sound, 2019
317 vs England at Chennai, 2021 

317 – England lost this Test match by 317 runs which is their biggest ever loss in terms of runs in Test Cricket in Asia. The previous biggest was also against India by 246 runs at Visakhapatnam in 2016.

Read : IND vs ENG : Rishabh Pant showed his football skills in Chennai Test – Watch :