Stats – India's season of first-innings batting woes
India’s batting not living up to its potential in the first innings has been a recurring theme in 2024-25
Sampath Bandarupalli03-Jan-2025185 India’s total on Friday is the second lowest by any team in the first innings of a Test match in Sydney since 2001. The lowest was 127 all-out by Australia against Pakistan in 2010.8 All-out totals of 185 or less by India in Tests in 2024-25, the joint-most such totals for any team in a Test season. Five other teams also had eight totals of 185 or less in a season.
376 India’s total against Bangladesh in Chennai remains their highest first-innings total in 2024-25. West Indies, in 2000-01, is the only other team that did not cross the 400-run mark even once in their first innings of a Test season, where they played ten or more matches.18.74 Average runs per wicket by India in the first innings of the Tests in the 2024-25 season. It is the lowest average for any team in the first innings of a Test during a season for a minimum of five matches.India’s average of 22.92 in their first innings (first and second innings of the Test) is also the lowest for any team in a Test season for a minimum of ten matches.Related
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2 Individual hundreds for India in their first innings in Tests in 2024-25: R Ashwin against Bangladesh in Chennai and Nitish Kumar Reddy against Australia in Melbourne, both while batting at No. 8.The ten Tests that India played in 2024-25 are the most by any team in a Test season, with none of their players scoring a first-innings hundred while batting in the top seven.12.6 Virat Kohli’s batting average in 2024-25 during the team’s first innings, the lowest for any top seven batter in a Test season, for a minimum of ten innings. The previous lowest was 12.66 by David Boon in the 1994-95 season, where he scored 152 runs in 12 innings.11 Wickets of the opening batters by Jasprit Bumrah in this series are the joint most for any bowler since 2002. Shane Warne in the 2005 Ashes and Stuart Broad in the 2019 Ashes, also dismissed the openers on 11 occasions.
22 Bumrah’s score on Friday is the highest by an Indian captain in this series. It is the second-lowest highest score by the captains for India in a Test series for a minimum of seven innings.The lowest is 20* in the home Test series against England in 1976-77, by Bishen Bedi across the ten innings he batted. The lowest ‘highest score’ by the captain for any team in a Test series is 17 for Australia in the 1956 Ashes.