A day of two Y's

* Pakistan’s total of 326 for two at stumps was its highest on the opening day of a Test match for the loss of just two wickets. The previous best opening day score losing the same number of wickets was also against India at Bangalore (in the last Test between the two sides). See Table 1.

* It was also the ninth highest by Pakistan in all Test cricket on the first day’s play. The best still remains of 388 for 3 against England at Manchester in 1992. Table 2 has the details.

* Younis Khan has now scored 498 runs in three successive Test innings against India. In his last match at Bangalore in March 2005 against the arch-rivals, the Pakistan vice-captain smashed 267, 84* and now an unbeaten 147 at the end of first day’s play. His tally of 498 runs are the ninth most by any batsman against India in three or more successive innings. See Table 3.

* Younis Khan’s last three Tests against India has now yielded 645 runs in five innings. It thus broke the 57-year old record of most runs by any batsman against India in three or more successive Tests including atleast a century in each of them. Everton Weekes scored 585 runs in three Tests against India between November 1948 and Jan 1949. See Table 4.

* Younis has now made ten hundreds and 11 fifties in the 70 innings of his Test career. His fifty to hundred conversion rate of 47.62 % is now the third best by any Pakistani with atleast 10 centuries in Test cricket. See Table 5.

* Muhammad Yousuf was unbeaten on 95 at stumps on first day. He became only the sixth Pakistani batsman for the ninth time to be not out in 90s overnight against India. Mudassar Nazar has achieved this feat four times while Javed Miandad holds the world record of adding most runs to a nervous-ninety overnight score. See Table 6.Click to see the tables