🏏 Bangladesh tour of India 2024: 2nd Test - BD vs IND - Day 5🏏 - Page 44

Highest run-rate by a team in a Test (both innings combined)

7.36 - IND vs BAN, Kanpur, 2024

6.80 - SA vs ZIM, Cape Town, 2005

6.73 - ENG vs PAK, Rawalpindi, 2022

6.43 - ENG vs IRE, Lord’s, 2023

5.73 - ENG vs BAN, Chester-le-Street, 2005

Till date, there have been 16 Tests wherein a team has scored at over 5 rpo across both innings, seven of them have come since June 2022 (six by England and one by India).

Previous best run-rate for India in a Test: 5.3 vs Pakistan (Lahore, 2006)

Rohit, India captain: We all keep going. Obviously at some stage we had to start working with different personnel. When Rahul bhai said he was done being here - we had a fantastic time but life moves on. We all have to move on. Gautam Gambhir, I've played with him and know what sort of mindset he comes in with and allows players to go and play the way they want to play. Early days but it's been a good start. We had to think a lot about how the game can keep moving forward. Once we lost two and a half days, when we came on day 4 we wanted to get them out as quickly as possible and see what we can do with the bat. All depended on how many runs they get. When they got bowled out for 230, it wasn't about the runs we get but the overs we wanted to bowl at them. Which meant we had to try and up the run rate and score as many as possible. Pitch didn't have much for the bowlers. To make a game out of it on that pitch was a superb effort from the bowlers.

Least balls batted to win a Test (both innings combined)

276 - ENG vs WI, Bridgetown, 1935

281 - IND vs SA, Cape Town, 2024

300 - SA vs ZIM, Cape Town, 2005

312 - IND vs BAN, Kanpur, 2024

327 - AUS vs SA, Melbourne, 1932

Most wins in Tests

414 - Australia

397 - England

183 - West Indies

180 - India

179 - South Africa

Most consecutive Test series wins at home

18* - India (2013 - 2024)

10 - Australia (1994-2000)

10 - Australia (2004-2008)

8 - West Indies (1976-1986)

8 - New Zealand (2017-2020)

Most Player of the Series awards in Tests

11 - Muttiah Muralitharan

11 - Ravichandran Ashwin

9 - Jacques Kallis

8 - Sir Richard Hadlee

8 - Imran Khan

8 - Shane Warne

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Rohit collects the trophy, then goes over to his teammates and hands the trophy to Akash Deep as they pose for the photos. Another series win in the bag at home. They've now won six Tests in a row, just one away from equalling their longest winning streak in Tests. That chance will come shortly against NZ with three Tests scheduled from mid-October. If they happen to go past that record, it'll only underline how good this bunch of players are. What they have done here in Kanpur is no mean feat with all that transpired over the first three days. And they've done it without Mohammed Shami who is such a huge threat, especially in these conditions. So that's all we have for now. These two teams will meet again for a three-match T20I series in five days time. Until then, it's goodbye!