India v South Africa, 2nd Test, Ahmedabad @The shortest innings in the subcontinent

by rab | April 3, 2008 at 02:51 am
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ndia's capitulation for 76 before lunch on the first day in Ahmedabad was one of their worst performances in Tests. Here's a look at more numbers from the innings.

ndia's score is their seventh-lowest score in Tests, and their second-lowest at home. They had been bowled out for 75 against West Indies in Delhi in 1987. The main destroyer on that occasion had been Pattrick Patterson, who achieved figures of 5 for 24 from 8.5 overs. (Dale Steyn's figures here were 5 for 23 from eight.) On that occasion too, India had won the toss and chosen to bat. There have been 14 other instances, though, of teams scoring less than 76 after winning the toss. Click here for the full list.

·  The Indian innings lasted just 20 overs, which is the shortest completed innings ever in the subcontinent.

·  For the South Africans, it was a performance to relish - only on three previous occasions had they bowled out opposition teams for less than 100 when playing overseas. India's 76 equals the lowest by a team against them at home - more than 100 years back England were bowled out for exactly that score at Headingley, but ended up winning the match by 53 runs.

·  Steyn needed only eight overs to take his five-for. Only one South African has needed fewer overs for a five-wicket haul, and the name is an unlikely one: Jacques Kallis took 5 for 21 in 4.3 overs against Bangladesh in Potchefstroom. (Click here for the full list.)

·  Nine of out 11 batsmen made single-digit scores in this innings, which is only the eighth instance of an Indian innings containing nine or more single-digit scores by batsmen. Only twice have there been ten single-digit scores in an Indian innings, and both happened within three months of each, in 1996-97, against South Africa (Durban) and West Indies (Barbados).

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Vinny

You have changed some of the links in this copy and paste from Cricinfo to lead to a site other than Cricinfo. I regard this as a serious misuse of copyrighted material .

This article is by S Rajesh:

S Rajesh is stats editor of Cricinfo

Rob Walker
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at 05:15 on April 3rd, 2008

I checked the link that Vinny provided and it does appear this is an entire article taken from another site.

Please be very clear when using copyrighted material and link back to the original story. As well, please do not insert your own links into the story.

Might I recommend you install our highlight tool, which will automate most of this process?

If you can make these changes I'll remove the flag.

Thanks,

Rob

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