IND vs WI: Test cricket relationship between India and West Indies is years old, know some special records before the series

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The two-match Test series between India and West Indies is going to start from July 12. Both the teams are preparing fiercely for this series. On the one hand, the Indian team under the captaincy of Rohit Sharma is currently occupying the first position in the Test rankings. At the same time, the West Indies team is currently occupying the 8th position. Looking at the ranking, India’s position looks very strong. Although it is not easy to beat the Caribbean team on their soil.

Talking about the cricket relation between India and West Indies, both have been playing with each other since 1948-49. , 75 years of cricket between the two countries have been completed. In such a situation, before the start of the Test series of India and West Indies, we will tell about some special records which have been made in so many years.

Some special records of Test series between West Indies and India

• Overall, 98 Tests have been played against each other between the two teams. West Indies have a winning percentage of 30.61, having won 30 Tests, while India have a winning percentage of 22.44, having won 22. At the same time, 46 tests have ended without any result.

• India has played 17 Tests against the West Indies since 30 June 2006. In this, 12 teams have been named after India. While five tests are drawn.

• West Indies’ last Test win over India was in Kingston in May 2002 by 155 runs.

• India has won the last eight Test series between the two teams since 2002-03. In these eight series, India has won 14 Tests and played nine draws.

• West Indies’ highest score against India is 644 for 8 wickets. While Team India has scored the highest score of 649 runs for 9 wickets against West Indies.

• India’s lowest score against West Indies is 75. Which was made in Delhi in the year 1987-88. At the same time, West Indies’ lowest score against India is 100 which was made in North Sound Test in 2019-20.

• Rohan Kanhai’s career best first-class score of 256 runs in the 1958–59 Kolkata Test is the highest individual innings for West Indies vs India. For India, Sunil Gavaskar’s career best Test score of 236 not out in the Chennai Test of 1983–84 is the highest Test score against the West Indies.

• Jack Noriega took his career best 9 wickets for 95 runs in the Port of Spain Test against India in 1970-71. On the other hand, in the 1983-84 Ahmedabad Test for India, Kapil Dev’s 9 wickets for 83 runs was the best bowling figure.

• In the history of Test cricket, Kapil Dev is the only captain to take nine wickets in a Test innings.

• Sir Everton Weekes scored 779 runs in just seven innings at 111.28 in the five-Test series in 1948–49, including four centuries – the most by any batsman in a Test series involving India. There are more runs.

• For India, Sunil Gavaskar scored 774 runs in four Tests in the 1970–71 series at an average of 154.80, including four centuries.

• Marshall’s six five-wicket hauls against India is a record by any bowler in Test matches against India and the West Indies.

• Narendra Hirwani, on Test debut, took 16 for 136 in the 1987–88 Chennai Test – 8 for 61 and 8 for 75. This was India’s best bowling debut against West Indies.

• Virat Kohli has had a 75.00% success as captain in Tests against the West Indies, winning six out of eight and drawing the remaining two.

• Clive Lloyd has the most wins in India-West Indies Tests – 10 wins, 3 losses and 7 draws out of 20 matches – Win % 50.00.

• Ishant Sharma is the only Indian fast bowler to take three five-for in Tests in the Caribbean – 6 for 55 at Bridgetown and 5 for 77 at Dominica – both in 2011 and 5 for 43 at North Sound in 2019.

• During the match against the West Indies at St John’s in 2006, Mahendra Singh Dhoni hit six sixes in 52 balls – the most by an Indian batsman in a Test innings against the West Indies.

• Jasprit Bumrah registered a hat-trick in the 2019 Kingston Test by dismissing Darren Bravo, Shamarh Brooks and Roston Chase and became the only Indian bowler to achieve glory against the West Indies.

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