Finally, we look at captaincy records. Most teams have had more than one captain during the year:
At first glance, this shows RG Sharma and SPD Smith having a W/L ratio of infinity. However they have captained in only 2 and 1 Tests respectively. If we consider those who captained in a minimum of 5 Tests, then we have BA Stokes (9.00) at the top, followed by PJ Cummins (6.00). Others such as KC Brathwaite (1.50) are far behind.
The most Tests captained in are 11 by D Elgar, followed by Stokes and Cummins (10 each) and Babar Azam (9). Several failed to win any Test, led by JE Root (5) and Shakib Al Hasan (lost all 4).
Bangladesh won the series 2-1. However the first two matches were won by the narrow margins of 1 wicket and 5 runs, while India won the 3rd match by a massive margin of 227 runs.
Bangladesh had also won 2-1 against India in 2015.
Here we review the main statistical highlights of ODIs between these teams.
Overall results:
While Bangladesh has done relatively well on its home soil, it has not yet won an ODI against India in India. They have won only one match on neutral grounds, but that was enough to prevent India proceeding further in the 2007 World Cup.
We now look at individual records, starting with Batting:
Most runs (250 or more):
Ishan Kishan is not here as his 210 was scored in his only ODI against Bangladesh.
Kohli and RG Sharma head this list, with Shakib in third place.
Highest innings (100 or more):
Ishan Kishan has the highest score here. Among other things, this is the highest maiden century in any ODI.
It is far ahead of the earlier mark of 175 by V Sehwag during the 2011 World Cup. The best by Bangladesh is
121 by Litton Das in 2018.
The records set by Ishan Kishan are summarised here:
This list is led by 4 Bangladeshi bowlers, starting with Shakib with 28. Agarkar has the most for India with 18.
Best innings bowling (including all 5wi):
Headed by the startling 6 for 4 by STR Binny. The next best is 6-43 by Mustafizur. Also note Sehwag’s 4 for 6.
Best bowling averages (Minimum 1000 balls bowled):
Shakib heads this list which has only one other member in Mortaza.
Now for Fielding:
Most dismissals (6 and above):
Dhoni (32) is followed by Mushfiqur with 29.Dhoni has the most stumpings with 10, while Mushfiqur has the most catches as a keeper (25). The most catches by a fielder are 8 by S Dhawan.
Most dismissals in an innings (4 and more):
Led by MS Dhoni and Mushfiqur Rahim with 5. Dhoni has 2 stumpings, while the most by a fielder is 4 by S Dhawan.
Highest dismissal rates (Minimum 20 innings):
Led by Dhoni and Mushfiqur again. Mortaza and Shakib have the best figures for fielders.
All-round performances:
Overall (see criteria from table):
Only Shakib has batted and bowled enough.
Match figures (Minimum of a fifty and a 5wi):
Only 3 instances here. Tendulkar’s 47 and 4-54 would appear to be the best.
Shakib leads by a large margin over Shahid Afridi (the original one). From India, the best is 32 by Ashwin.
Best innings bowling (including all 5wi and over):
BAW Mendis and Herath have much better innings analyses than others including Umar Gul and Sam Curran. Curran’s 5-10 was the best in 2022. For India, the best is 4-11 by Ashwin in 2014
Best bowling averages (Minimum 500 balls bowled, all instances):
Only 7 bowlers have bowled enough to qualify. S Ajmal is closely followed by Ashwin, who is the only Indian player here. Next is Shakib.
Summing up this table:
Best averages: Ajmal, Ashwin
Best economy rates: Ashwin, S Afridi
Best strike rates: Ajmal, Ashwin.
Next we come to Fielding statistics:
Most dismissals (12 and above):
The most dismissals are 32 by ABD and Dhoni. AB de Villiers has 9 dismissals as a keeper and 23 as a fielder, while all of Dhoni’s 32 dismissals are as a keeper.
Kamran Akmal is next with 30 dismissals as a keeper, including the most stumpings at 18.
de Villers has the most catches as a fielder (23) followed by DA Warner with 20.
Most dismissals in an innings (4):
Nobody reached this level in 2022. Dhoni is the only one from India, and the only one to appear here twice. Also note the 4 stumpings by Kamran Akmal and Ramdin. DJG Sammy is the only fielder here.
Best dismissal rate (Minimum 20 innings and 0.600):
The best here is by the “hybrid” AB de Villiers with 1.066. Next are Dhoni and Kamran Akmal with 1.000.
The best by a “pure” fielder is 0.678 by MJ Guptill followed by current player GJ Maxwell (0.666)
Finally, we come to all-round performances:
Overall: Minimum 20 innings batted and 500 balls bowled:
Only 3 qualify here, with only Shakib having a creditable performance.
However, we get another viewpoint here:
Best match performance (Minimum 30 runs and 3 wickets):
The best performances here would be by DJ Bravo (66* and 4-38), followed by SR Watson’s 72 and 3-34 and Shakib’s 46 and 4-9. The best for India is by HH Pandya in 2022. Also note CR Brathwaite’s 34* which included 4 successive 6s in the 2016 final.
Here is a summary of all Tests between these teams:
Note the exact symmetry: WI leads BD 7-2 with one draw both at home and away. In 2009 Bangladesh won because of the absence of many WI players. These were the first two Tests won by Bangladesh away from home. They also won 2-0 under normal circumstances in 2018.
Looking at individual performances, starting with
Batting:
Most runs (350 and more):
Brathwaite, Tamim and Shakib are bunched together at the top.
Chanderpaul has the most centuries (4), while Shakib has the most 50+ scores (10, but with no centuries). Bratwaite has 8 including 3 centuries.
Highest innings scores (120 and more):
Sarwan and Samuels are far ahead of the others. Mayers scored 210* on debut in a 4th-innings chase which his team won. The highest for Bangladesh is 136 by Mahmudullah.
Highest batting averages (Minimum 20 innings, all instances):
Led by Brathwaite, but Shakib is close behind.
Highest strike rates (Minimum 1000 balls faced, all instances):
Headed by Shakib by a large margin over second-placed Tamim. DM Bravo has the best for WI.
Now for Bowling:
Most wickets (12 and more):
Led by Shakib, Roach and Miraz.
Roach has the most 5-fors (4) while only Miraz and Holder have taken a 10-for.
Best innings bowling (includes 6wi and more):
Miraz is the only one on either side to take a 7-for. Lawson’s 6-3 is the best for WI, and the best 6-for in any Test.
Best match bowling (includes 8wm and more):
Headed by Miraz and Holder. Lawson appears at the bottom of this list.
Bowling averages (Minimum 2000 balls, all instances):
Shakib is the only one who has bowled enough.
Now for Fielding:
Most dismissals (8 and more):
Headed by Mushfiqur and Ramdin. The most by a fielder is 13 by DJG Sammy.
J Da Silva has the most dismissals (16) among current players.
Most innings dismissals (4 and more):
While several WI players have taken 5 in an innings, Khaled Mashud is the only one from BD to take 4. DM Bravo is the only fielder with 5 catches.
Most match dismissals (5 and more):
Led by three WI players with 7 in a match. The best for BD is 5 by Nurul Hasan twice. DM Bravo has the most by a fielder (6).
Best dismissal rate (Minimum 20 innings, all cases):
Headed by Mushfiqur, while Brathwaite has the best by a fielder. Apart from Mushfiqur, no keeper has fielded for 20 innings.
All-round performance:
Overall (see criteria in table):
Shakib is the only one to have batted and bowled enough.
Match (50+ and 5wi):
Only three instances, all by Shakib. His best performance was in 2009, where he narrowly missed a century and 5wi.
This two-test series marked an important landmark, as Bangladesh won their first Test against New Zealand in their 16th attempt. The series was drawn 1-1.
Resultsof all Tests between NZ and BD:
Overall: 17 tests: NZ lead 13-1, 3 draws
In NZ: 11 tests: NZ lead 10-1
In BD: 6 tests: NZ lead 3-0 with 3 draws.
Most runs (minimum 350):
Tamim Iqbal leads with 908, followed by Shakib (763) and newly-retired R Taylor (746).
Highest individual scores (Minimum 110):
TWM Latham’s 252 in the second Test is the highest for NZ against BD, surpassing the 202 by SP Fleming at Chattogram in 2004. Their previous best in NZ was 200* by Williamson at Hamilton in 2019. Also note that Shakib had made 217 at Wellington in 2017.
Incidentally Latham is the first player to score 252 in a Test.
While there is not enough data for meaningful batting averages, we have some strike rates:
Highest strike rates (Min 1000 balls faced, all instances):
Not surprisingly, R Taylor has the highest strike rate. Williamson and Shakib are slightly lower.
Bowling:
Most wickets (Minimum 10):
Vettori (51) is followed by the current trio of Wagner, Boult and Southee.
The most 5wi are 5 by Vettori and 3 by Wagner.
The only 10wm is by Vettori.
Best innings bowling (including all 6wi):
Shakib has BD’s best innings figure of 7-36 at Chattogram in 2008. In this series, Ebadot took 6-46 which is BD’s best innings figure in NZ. The previous best for BD in NZ was 5-166 by Rubel Hossain at Hamilton in 2010.
Best match bowling (7wm and above):
Vettori’s 12-170 at Chattogram is the best performance here.
Ebadot’s 7-121 is BD’s best match figure in NZ. The previous record was 5-88 by Mashraf Mortaza at Dunedin in 2008.
There is not enough data for meaningful bowling averages etc, as Vettori is the only one with over 2000 balls bowled.
Fielding:
Most dismissals (Minimum 8):
McCullum (28) and Watling (26) have the most dismissals.
Watling (26) and McCullum (24) have the most catches by a keeper.
Mc Cullum (4) has the most stumpings.
R Taylor (17) and Sinclair (12) have the most dismissals by a fielder.
Most innings dismissals (Minimum 4):
Imrul Kayes has the most catches by a keeper in an innings (5)
During this series Shadman Islam and TWM Latham both took 4 catches as fielders.
Most match dismissals (Minimum 5):
Watling (7) has the most dismissals by a keeper in an innings (all caught). Next is McCullum with 6.
The most catches by a fielder is 6 by Latham in this series. Next are Sinclair and Shadman with 5.
All-round performance:
50+ and 5wi in a match:
Vettori’s 55*, 76 and 9-133 at Chattogram in 2008 is clearly the best. If he had taken one more wicket, he would have become one of the only five players to score 100 runs and take 10 wickets in a test (The others are Davidson, Botham, Imran and Shakib).
We continue our study of the T20I performances in the calendar year 2021, counting only the matches between teams which had Test or ODI status in the past.
Bowling figures:
Most wickets (15 or more):
Newcomer Hasaranga de Silva and T Shamsi have the most wickets (36), followed by Mustafizur (28). No one from India has taken 15 or more wickets.
There are 5 instances of 5wi and 8 instances of 4+wi.
Best innings bowling (includes all instances of 5wi and more):
The lesser-known JN Frylinck has the best figures. Next is AC Agar, who is better known for his 98 at No 11 on Test debut.
Also note the startling figures of 4 for 2 by AU Rashid.
No one from India is in this list.
Bowlingaverages (minimum 500 balls bowled):
Only one bowler reaches this cutoff. Hasaranga has bowled a few overs less but has a better average of 11.63 (see the first table above).
Fielding figures:
Most dismissals (10 or more):
The most dismissals are 24 by M Rizwan and 21 by MS Wade. The most catches by a fielder is 17 by Babar Azam. However, the most stumpings are 5 by JS Buttler. Rizwan’s 24 dismissals include 22 as keeper and 2 as fielder.
The most catches by an Indian player are 11 by SA Yadav.
Most dismissals in an innings (4 or more):
From the lesser teams. Erasmus’s 4 catches were as a fielder.
Best dismissal rate (Minimum 20 innings, 0.500)
Led by MS Wade, while Fakhar Zaman has the best by a fielder.
All-round match performance (30 runs and 3 wickets):
2 of the 4 performances are by Shakib Al Hasan, although MR Marsh’s performance is the best followed by Shakib’s against PNG. MR Marsh was also Man of the Match in the T20I Cup final with 77*
Tests between these sides have invariably been one-sided, as you can see in this list below:
Pakistan has won 12 of these 13 Tests with one draw.
In Bangladesh, Pakistan leads 7-0 with 1 draw.
In Pakistan, Pakistan leads 5-0.
The one exception to heavy defeats was at Multan in 2003 where Bangladesh came within one wicket of defeating Pakistan. Inzamam (in his home town) was able to scrape through a 1-wicket win here.
We now look at individual scores, starting with Batting:
Most runs (minimum 400):
Azhar Ali has the highest total among current players, followed by Shakib Al Hasan.
The most centuries are 3 by M Hafeez and Younis Khan. The most 50+ scores are 7 by Habibul Bashar (who had only one century). Next are Taufeeq Umar and Shakib with 5 each.
Highest innings (minimum 100):
Abid Ali and Liton Das scored centuries in the just-concluded series.
Yasir Hameed scored centuries in both innings on his Test debut, but never made another century.
There is not enough data (minimum 20 innings) for calculating batting averages.
But we can find batting strike rates (for those with a minimum of 1000 balls faced).
Younis Khan leads 4 Pakistani players here.
Now for Bowling.
Most wickets (minimum 10 wickets):
Current player Taijul Islam (22) has the most for Bangladesh, although Danish Kaneria has the most with 34. Umar Gul also has 22. Newcomers Sajid Khan and SS Afridi are also here.
Best innings bowling (all 6wi and above):
Sajid Khan’s 8-42 is now the best in this series, surpassing Danish’s 7-77.
Taijul Islam now has the best innings figures for Bangladesh (7-116) surpassing Shakib’s 6-82.
Best match bowling (including all 8wm):
Here Sajid Khan’s 12-128 is second to Danish’s 12-94.
In this series, Taijul Islam had the best figures for Bangladesh (8-205).
Best bowling averages-not enough data as no one has bowled 2000 balls.
Fielding records:
Most dismissals (Minimum 8):
Rashid Latif has by far the most dismissals (26). Next is Khaled Mashud with 9.
Among fielders, Azhar Ali and Younis Khan have 8 each. Mahmudullah has 7.
Innings dismissals (Minimum 4):
Match dismissals (Minimum 5):
Rashid Latif again leads with 7 dismissals, while Shadab Kabir had 5 as a fielder.
All-round match performance (Minimum 50+ and 5-for):
Here we have the best performance by a Bangladesh player, with Shakib scoring 144 and taking 6-82).
We now continue with individual performances in Bowling.
Most wickets (20 or more):
Shakib Al Hasan took over the record from Shahid Afridi in this edition.
Bravo, Ashwin and Starc are the next among current players. Ashwin and Jadeja are the only Indian players here.
Best innings bowling (includes all 5wi and above):
None of the top performance were from this edition, the best being A Zampa’s 5-19 and Mujeeb’s 5-20. Adil Rashid’s 4 wickets for 2 runs against the West Indies is almost as startling as Rangana Herath’s 5-3 against New Zealand in 2014. Also note 4-9 both by Shakib and Rashid Khan
Best bowling averages (minimum 500 balls bowled, all instances):
Shakib and Bravo are the only current players here.
S Ajmal and Shakib have the best averages.
Shakib and Afridi have the best economy rates.
S Ajmal and Shakib have the best strike rates.
As you can see, Indian players do not figure in the last two lists.
Now for Fielding.
Most dismissals (12 and above):
de Villiers and Dhoni share the top position here, while Mushfiqur, Guptill and Warner have the most dismissals among current players.
Some points of interest: de Villiers’s dismissals came both as keeper and non-keeper (7 catches as keeper, 2 stumpings and 23 catches as non-keeper).
Dhoni’s 32 dismissals is the most for a keeper (including 21 catches and 11 stumpings). However, Kamran Akmal (18) and Sangakkara (14) have more stumpings).
de Villers has the most (23) catches as a non-keeper. Next are Guptill and Warner.
Most dismissals in an innings (4 and above):
12 players have made 4 dismissals in an innings, MH Cross of Scotland being the only one in 2021.
Note the 4 stumpings by Kamran Akmal and D Ramdin.
D Sammy is the only one with 4 catches as a non-keeper.
Best dismissal rate (Minimum 20 innings, 0.60 and above):
Mushfiqur has the best by a current player.
The “hybrid” de Villiers has the best average here.
Dhoni and Kamran Akmal share the best average for a keeper.
GJ Maxwell, Guptill and Warner have the best averages for non-keepers. They all played in the final of the 2021 edition.
Finally, All-round performance:
Overall (note the conditions in the table):
Shakib has by far the best performance here, with Shahid Afridi a distant second.
Bravo and Mohammad Nabi also represent the current players.
Match performance (30 runs and 3 wickets):
The best performances would be by Bravo, Watson (28 Sep 2012) and Shakib (21 Oct 2021).
There is also Hasaranga de Silva among current players.
No good performances by Indian players in this category.
We now look at the converse: a fifty-plus and ten wickets in an innings in the same match.
This is a little rarer than the earlier case. It has occurred 30 times, compared to 33 times for the earlier case.
Multibaggers are rarer here. We have 3 instances by Sir Richard Hadlee and 2 by Shakib Al Hasan. That’s all. Botham is here, but only for one instance. Ashwin, Sobers and Mushtaq are not here. But there are others such as Bevan and Border who would not usually be considered to be all-rounders.
The most recent instance was by Stuart Broad during one of the Covid Tests of 2020.
Earlier we saw that Bruce Taylor was the only one to score a century and take 5wi on debut. That was against India in 1965.
There is only instance of someone scoring a 50+ and taking 10 wickets on debut. This was John Lever for England v India in 1976. What is even stranger is that India’s S Venkataraghavan appeared in both of these Tests.
Among current and recent players there are MM Ali, SCJ Broad, RA Jadeja, Dilruwan Perera, Rashid Khan, Shakib Al Hasan and DW Steyn. The only other player from India is Kapil Dev (who never made a century and 5wi together).
Also note AK Davidson, who scored 44 and 80 and took 11 wickets in the tied Test in 1960. He was the first to score over 100 runs and 10 wickets in a match. He had this record to himself until Botham scored a century and took 13 wickets against India in early 1980. Imran Khan and Shakib later followed with a century and 10 wickets in 1983 (against India, who else?) and 2014 (against Zimbabwe).
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