Following the hard-fought two opening Tests in Chennai, India and England look to settle things in the final two Tests in Ahmedabad. The redeveloped Sardar Patel (Motera) Stadium will be hosting its first Test in nine years, and before the sides get things underway here from Wednesday in a day-night Test, it is worth taking a look at the stats this ground holds in the format.
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Team statsResults: India (played 12, won 4, lost 2), England (played 2, lost 1)Highest total: Overall (7607 by Sri Lanka), India (5218), England (407)Biggest win by an innings: South Africa (an innings and 90 runs), India (an innings and 70 runs)Biggest win by runs: India (259 runs vs Lanka)Biggest win by wickets: India (9 wickets vs England)
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Batting recordsMost runs: India (Rahul Dravid- 771), England (Alastair Cook- 217)Highest score: India (Dravid- 222), England (Cook- 176)Best average: India (Dilip Vengsarkar- 109.00), England (Cook- 108.50)Most centuries: India (Dravid- 3), England (Cook and Craig White- 1)Most 50-plus scores: India (VVS Laxman- 6), England (Mark Butcher- 2)
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Bowling recordsMost wickets: India (Anil Kumble- 36), England (Graeme Swann- 6)Best bowling in an innings: India (Kapil Dev- 983), England (Ashley Giles- 567)Best bowling in a game: India (Venkatapathy Raju- 11125), England (Swann- 69)Best average: Overall (Ross Taylor- 2.00), India (Roger Binny- 6.00), England (Giles- 24.80)Best economy: India (Dravid- 0.00), England (Giles- 1.66)Best economy in an innings: India (Maninder Singh- 0.56), England (Giles- 1.54)Most five-fors in an innings: India (Kimble- 3), England (Swann and Giles- 1)Most ten-fors in a game: India (Raju, Dev, Harbhajan Singh and Kumble- 1)Biggest partnership: Overall (Mahela Jayawardene-Prasanna Jayawardene: 351), India (Sachin Tendulkar-Sourav Ganguly: 281), England (Cook-Prior: 157)
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Wicketkeeping recordsMost dismissals: India (MS Dhoni- 8), England (James Foster and Matt Prior- 1)Most dismissals in an innings: India (Kiran More- 4), England (Foster and Prior- 1)Most dismissals in a match: Overall (More, Adam Parore and Gareth Hopkins- 4), England (Foster and Prior- 1)
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Fielding recordsMost catches: India (Mohammad Azharuddin- 9), England (Butcher- 4)Most catches in an innings: Iqbal Qasim, Azharuddin, Brian McMillan, Butcher, Shiv Sunder Das and Mohammad Kaif (3)Most catches in a game: India (Azharuddin and Kaif- 5), England (Butcher- 4)
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Individual recordsMost games: India (Tendulkar- 9)Most games as skipper: India (Dhoni- 3), England (Cook and Nasser Hussain- 1)
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