India after winning the toss put themselves to bat first and posted a total of 278/6 on Day 1 of Test match with the help of brilliant batting performance from Rishabh Pant (46), Cheteshwar Pujara (90) and Shreyas Iyer (82*). India managed to stage a comeback after losing 3 wickets on 48.
Team India managed to cross the 250-mark with the help of stunning 149-run partnership between Cheteshwar Pujara-Shreyas Iyer, while Rishabh Pant's quick fire innings provided the much needed momentum for India after the initial setback. Bangladeshi spin duo Taijul Islam and Mehidy Hasan played a key role for their team by picking 5 out of 6 wickets in total.
Numbers and Stats from BAN vs IND 1st Test:
4 - Rishabh Pant is the 4th wicket-keeper batsman to smash 50 (or) more sixes in Test Cricket.
Most sixes by a wicket-keeper batsman in Test cricket:
Adam Gilchrist - 100
MS Dhoni - 78
Brad Haddin - 54
Rishabh Pant - 50
Most sixes by an Indian batsman in Test cricket:
Virender Sehwag - 90
MS Dhoni - 78
Sachin Tendulkar - 69
Rohit Sharma - 64
Kapil Dev - 61
Sourav Ganguly - 57
Ravindra Jadeja - 55
Rishabh Pant - 50
5 - Cheteshwar Pujara has smashed fifty-plus in all the five (5) Test innings that he has played against Bangladesh so far.
Cheteshwar Pujara vs Bangladesh in Test cricket:
83(177) & 54*(58) in Hyderabad, 2017
54(72) in Indore, 2019
55(105) in Kolkata, 2019
90(203) in Chattogram, 2022
8 - Cheteshwar Pujara surpassed Dilip Vengsarkar's run tally in Test cricket and became 8th highest run-scorer for India in tests.
Most runs for India in Test cricket:
Sachin Tendulkar - 15921
Rahul Dravid - 13265
Sunil Gavaskar - 10122
VVS Laxman - 8781
Virender Sehwag - 8503
Virat Kohli - 8075
Sourav Ganguly - 7212
Cheteshwar Pujara - 6882
Dilip Vengsarkar - 6868
33 - Virat Kohli has batted 33 consecutive innings in Test without a century. His last century in Test cricket came against the same opposition Bangladesh in pink ball Test match (D/N) at Eden Gardens, Kolkata in Nov, 2019.
Kohli in Test cricket since 2020:
Inns - 33
Runs - 873
Avg - 26.45
50s : 6; 0s : 4
HS : 79 vs SA in Cape Town, 2022
90 - Cheteshwar Pujara has smashed 90 runs with the bat today. Pujara has managed to score 14 fifties in his last 51 test innings but none of them got converted as century unfortunately.
Highest score for Cheteshwar Pujara in test cricket since 2020:
91 vs ENG in Leeds, 2021
90 vs BAN in Chattogram, 2022
77 vs AUS in Sydney, 2021
1489 - Shreyas Iyer has smashed most runs (1489) in international cricket for India in the year 2022.
Most runs for India in international cricket in 2022:
Shreyas Iyer - 1489 (38 inns)
Suryakumar Yadav - 1424 (43 inns)
Virat Kohli - 1304 (39 inns)
Most fifty-plus scores for India in international cricket in 2022:
Shreyas Iyer - 14
Virat Kohli - 13
Suryakumar Yadav - 12
4000 - Rishabh Pant completed 4000 runs in international cricket.
