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Fourth golden duck for Tendulkar

By Mohandas Menon

** Wasim Jaffer's career best 86, was the highest by an Indian opener in an away Test match since V.V.S. Laxman's 167 against Australia at Sydney in January 2000.

** Rahul Dravid during his unbeaten innings of 86 (when on 11) became the seventh Indian batsman to aggregate 3000 Test runs while batting in the first innings of a Test match. Sunil Gavaskar has the maximum 6159 runs for India.

** Sachin Tendulkar was dismissed first-ball for the fourth time of his Test career. The first occasion was against New Zealand at Christchurch in February 1990 when keeper Ian Smith off the bowling of Danny Morrison caught him. He was then dismissed first-ball against South Africa at Port Elizabeth in December 1992, when he was caught by keeper Dave Richardson off the bowling of left-arm pace-man Brett Schultz. The third such dismissal came against Pakistan at Kolkata when Shoaib Akhtar yorked him in the first innings of the Asian Test Championship in February 1999. Incidentally India had lost all the three Tests.

** This duck was Tendulkar's 10th of his career in his 95th match and 152nd innings. He becomes the 17th Indian batsman to record 10 or more ducks during their career. Among genuine batsmen only Dilip Vengasarkar (15 ducks in 185 innings), Pankaj Roy (14 in 79), Chandu Borde (13 in 97), Mohinder Amarnath (12 in 113), Sunil Gavaskar (12 in 214) & Vijay Manjrekar (11 in 92) have more ducks than Tendulkar, who equals the tally of 10 ducks (in 155 innings) by Gundappa Viswanath.

** By scoring three ducks in the series, Tendulkar became the only sixth genuine visiting batsman to do so in a series in the West Indies after Englishman Jack Iddon (in 1934-35), New Zealander Ken Rutherford (in 1984-85), Englishman Mark Butcher (1997-98), Australian Matthew Elliott (1998-99) and South African Gary Kirsten (in 2000-01).

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