2016 - Jonny Bairstow's annus mirabilis

2016 - Jonny Bairstow's annus mirabilis

India dominated for the third consecutive day in Visakhapatnam in the second Test against England, ending the day 298 runs ahead with seven second innings wickets in hand. England started well on Day 3 with Ben Stokes (70) and Jonny Bairstow (53) resurrecting the visitors' innings from 80 for 5 with their 110-run sixth-wicket stand. Ravichandran Ashwin was the pick of the bowlers, taking five wickets - his 22nd five-wicket haul in Tests. India were 40 for 3 at one stage in their second innings before skipper Virat Kohli who bailed them out of trouble with his second 50+ score of the match.

Stats highlights from the day's play:

9 Scores of fifty or more for Jonny Bairstow in 2016 - the joint highest for a wicketkeeper in a calendar year along with AB de Villiers, who had nine such scores in 2013. Bairstow has three hundreds and six fifties in 22 innings this year.

772 Partnership runs scored by Ben Stokes and Bairstow in 2016 - the most by a pair batting at number six or below in a calendar year. They went past 732 by Thilan Samaraweera and Hashan Tillakaratne in 2001. Bairstow's 661 runs with Moeen Ali this year is third on the list.

Partners Inns Runs Highest Avg 100s Year
J Bairstow/B Stokes 7 772 399 110.28 3 2016
T Samaraweera/ H Tillakaratne 6 732 194* 183 4 2001
M Ali/J Bairstow 13 661 152 60.09 1 2016
A Flintoff/G Jones 7 580 170 82.85 3 2004
B McCullum/D Vettori 7 572 176 81.71 3 2009
A Gilchrist/D Martyn 6 561 317 93.5 2 2002

1759 Partnership runs for the sixth wicket for England this year. The previous most by any wicket for them in a calendar year was 1704 runs for the fourth wicket last year.

Runs Wkt Team Year Partners 100s 50s Highest
1759 6 Eng 2016 8 5 9 399
1704 4 Eng 2015 9 8 4 177
1557 4 Eng 2006 10 4 5 310

5 Century partnerships for the sixth wicket for England in 2016. There are just three previous instances of a team having five 100+ stands for the sixth wicket in a year - West Indies in 1984, Zimbabwe in 2001 and Pakistan in 2002.

16 Instances of England putting a 100-plus stand for the sixth wicket after losing first the five wickets inside 100 runs. Stokes and Bairstow became the first pair to do it twice. They rescued England from 62 for 5 with a 127-run stand against Bangladesh in Chittagong last month.

52 Wickets for Ashwin in nine Tests in 2016. He is the second bowler to take 50 wickets this year after Rangana Herath, who has 54 scalps from eight matches.

2 Instances of Indian bowlers taking 50 or more wickets in consecutive years. Ashwin had 62 last year to go with 52 so far in 2016. Harbhajan Singh took 60 and 63 in 2001 and 2002 respectively.

3 for 72 Previous best figures for Ashwin against England in 13 innings. 5 for 67 by him today is his first five-fer against them in 11 innings at home. Against all other opponents at home, he has taken four or more wickets in 20 out of the 35 innings.

20 James Anderson has been dismissed for a duck for the 20th time in his Test career - the joint most for England, along with new ball partner Stuart Broad. Incidentally, Anderson took 54 innings to register his first duck - the most for an England player before the first duck.

60 Catches taken by Bairstow in 2016. It is the second-most for a wicketkeeper in a calendar year after 65 by Mark Boucher in 1998.

154 Runs scored by Ben Stokes against spin before his first dismissal to spin this series. In his 10 previous innings in Asia, he was dismissed eight times by spinners and averaged just 21.38 against them.

4 Matches where Ashwin scored a fifty and took a five-fer - the joint most for an Indian player along side Kapil Dev. The only players to achieve this combination on more occasionsare Ian Botham (11), Shakib Al Hasan (7), Richard Hadlee (6), Malcolm Marshall (5) and Chris Cairns (4).

25.81% Percentage of bowled dismissals for Cheteshwar Pujara in Tests - 16 out of 62 dismissals. Among specialist batsmen, who made their debut for India in 1975 or later, no one else has higher percentage of bowled dismissals (min 50 innings).

6 Fifties for Virat Kohli in as many innings in Vizag in international games. In the four ODIs here, Kohli scored 118, 117, 99 and 65 to go along with 167 and 56* in the ongoing Test.

223* runs by Kohli - 167 & 56* - is the most by an Indian captain in a Test against England. He surpassed the 52-year-old record of MAK Pataudi, who scored 216 (13 & 203*) in Delhi in 1964.

Most runs for Indian captain in a match against England

Player Inngs 1 Inngs 2 Total Venue Start Date
V Kohli 167 56* 223 Visakhapatnam 17-Nov-16
MAK Pataudi 13 203* 216 Delhi 8-Feb-64
MAK Pataudi 64 148 212 Leeds 8-Jun-67
M Azharuddin 179 11 190 Manchester 9-Aug-90
M Azharuddin 182 DNB 182 Kolkata 29-Jan-93