India vs England 3rd Test Match -- Smart stats

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• India were dismissed under 300 in the team first inningsfor the tenth time in Tests since January 2009. Seven of these occasions have come in the last nine innings.
• Stuart Broad picked up four or more wickets in aninnings for the eighth time in Tests and the third time in his last five innings. In 16 previous innings, he had just one four-wicket haul.
• MS Dhoni's 77 is only his second half-century in 2011. He has now scored 223 runs this year at an average of 20.27.
• Virender Sehwag was dismissed off the first ball he faced. It is the fifth time that he has been dismissed off his very first delivery.
• The 113 runs added for the eighth and ninth wickets is the fourth-highest aggregate partnership runs for the eighth and ninth wickets for India against England.
• Since the Brisbane Test in November 2010, England have bowled out the opposition team in 17 out of 19innings. The only two times they failed to bowl out the opposition were in rain-affected matches against Sri Lanka.
• The half-century opening stand for England is only their second in Tests this year. The previous fifty-plus opening stand came in the Sydney Test in January.
• Andrew Strauss' half-century is his first in nine inningsafter his 60 in the Sydney Test in January 2011. In eight innings prior to this one, he scored 129 runs at an average of 16.12.