Landmarks achieved at Ferozshah Kotla!

The world was waiting for Sachin’s hundreth international century. But it could not happen probably due to the impatience of Sachin imself when he tried one too many shots and in the bargain got out. Nevertheless, while Kolkata now waits for the special ton by the master, Delhi’s Ferozshah Kotla did witness some of the records tumbling and personal landmarks achieved for some individuals. Let us take a look :

1. Pragyan Ojha

Landmark Achieved : First 5-wicket hall of his test career. Pragyan Ojha is more associated to being thrifty in giving runs to oppositions and for that very reason has often provided second support to Harbhajan Singh usually. With Singh not playing and expected to be the spearheading the Indian spin attack, Ojha didn’t disappoint his team and picked up 6/55 in the first innings. It’s a laudable effort because the pitch provided little help and what really paid off is his perseverence and patience with a strict line and length throughout. Hope, there are many more 5-wickets hall in his destiny during his career span.

2. Mahendra Singh Dhoni

Landmark Achieved : 1st Indian keeper to hold 200 catches. The first thing that comes to mind when you see MSD keep is “Unconventional”. Unconventional may be, but pretty effective, nevertheless. During the first test against WI, Dhoni completed his 200 catches behind the stumps and became 1st Indian keeper to achieve this feat. Since the inception of his cricketing career, Dhoni has improved a lot in his wicket keeping skills and is perhaps the lightning in terms of taking wickets down in a flash in pursuit of stumping a batsman out. After having an ordinary series in England, Dhoni has come back pretty well and it’s a nice statistics to cherish for the Indian captain.

3. Fidel Edwards

Landmark Achieved : completing 150 wickets. Fidel Edwards who was bowling quick and let his bowling so the talking completed his 150 test wickets when he trapped Sachin LBW in the Indian 1st innings. He was unlucky early when he bowled out Sehwag on a no-ball. However, he wouldn’t be complaining as he scalped the prize wicket of Sachin Tendulkar as his 150th victim.

4. Rahul Dravid

Landmark Achieved : Second Highest no. of scores above 50. Rahul Dravid became the second player after Sachin to score more runs over 50 in test cricket. During his innings of 54 runs, he completed 96th score of 50 or above in his test career. The record is held by Sachin who has 113 scores of 50 and above. The wall is still going rock steady!

5. Ravichandran Ashwin

Landmark Achieved : taking 5-wickets and MOM award on debut. Ravichandran Ashwin, the debutant off spinner started off brilliantly his test career. Having been taken 3 wickets in the first innings, he scalped 6 more wickets in the 2nd innings to take his tally of wickets to 9 in his debut. This is the best performance by an Indian on debut after Narendra Hirwani who started with 16 wickets in his debut match. He also entered in the elite list of selected bowlers who have taken 5-wicket on their debut. By being awarded as the Man-of-the-Match, he beacame only the 3rd Indian to fetch the award on his debut. Quite a few achievements.

6. Sachin Tendulkar

Landmark Achieved : 15,000 test runs. Sachin could not complete his 100th 100 at Ferozshah Kotla but he certainly reached another landmark when he completed 15000 test run during his innings of 76 in the second innings. He has now become tha only person on the planet to do so. Also, he overtook team mate Rahul Dravid as highest scorer in the 4th innings in the world. He has a tally of 1515 surpassing Rahul Dravid’s 1507 runs.