Numbers game: No stopping Ashwin, Kohli

Virat's 248 runs in the second Test, the highest by an Indian captain against England.
Ashwin, only the second Indian bowler to take 50 wickets in consecutive years.
Rajneesh Gupta looks at the numbers from the Vizag Test.

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After escaping with a draw in the opening Test at Rajkot, India bounced back in style, thrashing England by 246 runs in the second game at Visakhapatnam to take a 1-0 lead in the five-match series.

The Dr Y S Rajasekhara Reddy ACA-VDCA cricket stadium in Visakhapatnam became India's 24th Test venue and overall 111th venue in Test cricket.

India have played their last three consecutive Tests at new venues -- Indore, Rajkot and Visakhapatnam.

Two Indian batsmen completed 3,000 runs during the Test -- Cheteshwar Pujara and Murali Vijay.

By taking 67 innings to reach this landmark Pujara became one of the quickest Indians to achieve the feat.

Check out the fastest to 3,000 Test runs for India:

During England's first innings, off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin took his 50 wickets in Tests in the year, becoming the second bowler to do so after Sri Lankan left-arm spinner Rangana Herath.

Ashwin ended 2015 with 62 wickets.

He is only the second Indian bowler to take 50 wickets in consecutive years. Harbhajan Singh did so in 2001 and 2002.

Only two Indian bowlers have taken 50 wickets in a calendar year on more occasions than Ashwin.

50 Test wickets in a calendar year on most occasions for India:

Kapil Dev holds the Indian record for most wickets in a year.

He took 75 wickets in 18 Tests in 1983.

With three Tests to go, Ashwin (62 wickets in 9 Tests) is in a good position to break Kapil's record.

50 Test wickets in a calendar year for India:

Ashwin has taken 5 wicket hauls against all seven countries he has played a Test against. He is yet to play a Test against Pakistan and Bangladesh.

His 5/67 in the first innings in Vizag is his 22nd 5 wicket haul in Tests.

Only three Indians have taken more 5 wicket hauls than Ashwin.

Indian bowlers with most 5 wicket innings hauls in Tests:

Ashwin's 5 wicket haul supplemented his innings of 58 with the bat in India's first innings.

This was the 4th instance when Ashwin scored a 50 and took a 5-for in the same Test.

With this Ashwin equalled Kapil Dev's Indian record.

When Ashwin scored a 50 and took a 5 wickets in the same Test:

A 50 and a 5-for in the same Test for India on most occasions:

England were bowled out for 255 in ther first innings -- exactly 200 runs behind India's first innings total.

Captain Virat Kohli opted against enforcing the follow. And not for the first time has he taken that decision. This was the third time Kohli did not enforce the follow-on despite being entitled to do so.

Interestingly, no other Indian captain has done so more than once!

Indian captains not enforcing the follow-on:

Kohli added 81 to his first innings score of 167 -- taking his match tally to 248 -- the highest by an Indian captain against England.

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This is also the fourth highest by an Indian captain in a Test against any opponent.

Most runs in a Test by an Indian captain:

Kohli has a special liking for Visakhapatnam's Dr Y S Rajasekhara Reddy ACA-VDCA cricket stadium.

The Indian captain's lowest score at this venue in six innings in international cricket is 65.

Kohli's love affair with Visakhapatnam:

Jayant Yadav, courtesy of his innings of 35 and 27 not out, became the 1st number 9 batsman to score 25 or more runs in both innings on debut.

Jayant is only the third Indian player to score 50 runs and take four wickets in his debut Test, joining Amar Singh (56 and 4/159) against England at Lord's in 1932 and Syed Abid Ali (66 and 7/116) against Australia at Adelaide in 1967-1968.

Mohammad Shami, who in the first innings became the fourth Indian player to hit a six off the very first ball of his innings, hit a six in the second innings as well (though not off the very first ball!).

In doing so, he became the first Indian number 11 batsman to hit a six in both innings of a Test.

James Anderson suffered the ignominy of bagging a king pair (getting out on a duck to the first ball faced in both innings) in the Test.

The last England player to do so was Ernie Haynes against South Africa at Cape Town in 1905-1906.

Anderson became the fourth player to bag a king pair against India.

King pairs against India:

Anderson aggregates 21 ducks in his Test career -- more than anyone else for England.

He moved ahead of Michael Atherton, Steve Harmison, Monty Panesar and Stuart Broad.

Anderson also holds the record of playing most (54) innings before his first duck for England!

The 10 LBW dismissals (5 in each innings) are the most for England in a Test.

The previous record was 9 against the West Indies at Lord's in 1984 and against Pakistan at Abu Dhabi in 2011-2012.

Ashwin's tally of 231 wickets is now the highest for any bowler after his first 41 Tests.

The previous Indian record was 185 held by Harbhajan Singh.

Most wickets after first 41 Tests:

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India's victory margin of 246 runs is its biggest against England at home and second biggest in all Tests.

The defeat was also England's biggest ever in a Test in Asia.

India's biggest Test wins versus England (by run margin):

India have now played 15 consecutive Tests without losing a single one!

Its last defeat came against Sri Lanka at Galle in August 2015.

This is India's second longest winning streak ever.

The longest is 17 Tests between 1985 and 1987.

India's longest winning streaks: