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Stats: Ashwin gets first fifty vs England, Yuvi first duck

Last updated on: November 23, 2012 21:54 IST

Image: R Ashwin

Cheteshwar Pujara again stole the limelight with a stoic hundred on Day 1 of the second Test against England at Wankhede in Mumbai on Friday. He was ably supported by R Ashwin after England spinner Monty Panesar had the home side with their backs to the wall.

Read on to find out the statistical highlights.

# Ravichandran Ashwin (60 not out off 84 balls) posted his first fifty against England -- his second in Tests.

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# Ashwin's aforesaid innings is his third-highest score in Tests. His only hundred in Tests is 103 against the West Indies in the 2011-12 Mumbai Test.

# Ashwin and Pujara shared a stand of 97 (unbroken) for the seventh wicket -- India's second highest against England at Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai. Ravi Shastri and Syed Kirmani had put on 235 in November 1984.

Yuvi recorded his first duck against England

Image: Yuvraj Singh

# Virender Sehwag (30 off 43 balls) posted his highest score against England at Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai.

# In first team innings, Sehwag averages 64.71 -- 6407 in 100 innings. His tally includes 22 hundreds and 18 fifties.

# Yuvraj Singh registered his first duck against England -- his seventh in Tests.
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Panesar's best bowling figures against India

Image: Monty Panesar

# Monty Panesar's superb bowling figures of four for 91 are his best against India in Tests.

# Panesar is likely to improve his present strike rate of 92.4 in Tests in India.

Pujara makes it to elite list of centurions

Image: Cheteshwar Pujara

# For the first time in Tests, Cheteshwar Pujara registered hundreds in consecutive Tests -- all unbeaten knocks -- 206 & 41 in the Ahmedabad Test and 114 -- against England.

# Pujara is one of the eleven Indians to record two or more centuries in a Test series against England. Azharuddin had registered three in India in 1984-85 and Dravid twice -- in 2002 and 2011 -- both times in England.

# Pujara's superb unbeaten 114 is his third hundred in Tests -- his first was 159 against New Zealand at Hyderabad.

# With his two hundreds, Pujara took his run-aggregate to 361 without being dismissed -- the most in the current series. The said performance is his best performance in Tests.

Sachin out bowled 52 times in Tests

Image: Sachin Tendulkar

# Sachin has been bowled on 52 occasions. Rahul Dravid (55) and Allan Border (53) have registered more bowled dismissals in Tests than Sachin.

# Sachin Tendulkar was dismissed for the 24th time in his Test career by a left-arm spinner.

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