Sydney Test | Team India’s present of grit, resilience and perseverance – In Numbers
3 min read Image Source : AP Indian batsman Ravichandran Ashwin and Hanuma Vihari, blue helmets, react as Australian gamers look on on the finish of play on the ultimate day of the third cricket check between India and Australia on the Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney, Australia, Monday, Jan. 11
Hanuma Vihari’s hamstring had pulled. R Ashwin was left bruised by a barrage of quick balls from the Aussie tempo assault. Ravindra Jadeja was in ready within the dressing room with a fractured thumb. But India by no means gave up hope, even in opposition to one of the menacing and relentless assaults in Test cricket, batting in opposition to the percentages, to tug off one other comeback for ages and therefore draw the sport on the SCG. The pair lasted 42.2 overs, withholding the early stress from the quicks with the brand new ball, scoring 62 runs to maintain the sequence degree at 1-1. With the heroics on the ultimate day on a dying pitch, India registered a couple of historic feats.
1979 was the final time India survived this lengthy within the remaining innings of a Test match. They batted for 131 overs within the fourth innings, 97 of which have been on the ultimate day with eight wickets in hand. It was on the Oval in 1979 that India had proven such resilience within the fourth innings, batting for 150 overs in opposition to England. Since that Test, India have batted for 100-plus overs within the fourth innings solely 5 extra instances.
Score
Overs
Result
Opposition
Ground
Year
429/8
150.5
draw
v England
The Oval
Aug-79
364/6
131
draw
v Pakistan
Delhi
Dec-79
334/5
131
draw
v Australia
Sydney
Jan-21
397
109.4
misplaced
v England
Lord’s
Jul-02
333
100.1
misplaced
v Australia
Adelaide
Jan-92
281/5
100
draw
v Sri Lanka
Colombo (SSC)
Aug-97
Twice have India batted for the variety of overs within the fourth innings to avoid wasting the Test – in opposition to West Indies in 1948 in Kolkata is the one different event barring the Oval sport in 1979.
131 overs can also be the longest that an Asian staff has survived in Australian circumstances within the fourth innings to avoid wasting the Test since 1979. There have nonetheless been three cases the place Asian groups have survived extra overs however all resulted in defeats – twice for Pakistan (145 overs in 2016 and 137.5 overs in 1990) and one for Sri Lanka (141.4 overs in 1989).
334/5 scored by India is the very best fourth-innings rating by a visiting staff on the SCG in opposition to Australia. It can also be the second-highest rating in a drawn Test, standing behind England’s 335/5 in Adelaide in 1991. Only as soon as has a visiting staff scored extra within the fourth innings and received the Test in Australia – South Africa (414/4) in Perth in 2008.
128 balls confronted by R Ashwin within the fourth innings is the fifth-highest by a No.7 batsman, additionally making it probably the most he has confronted within the remaining innings of a Test match.
256 balls have been confronted by Vihari and Ashwin of their sixth-wicket partnership. Only 4 instances in Test historical past has a sixth-wicket pair confronted extra balls in a non-defeat, and first by an Indian pair.
