• It was the 1548th Test match in cricket history.

• It was India's 340th and Zimbabwe's 51st Test match – sixth between these two sides.

• It was the 27th Test match on Zimbabwean soil- third between these two sides.

• Umpires Russell Tiffin and Daryll Harper were officiating in their 20th and 13th Test respectively.

• India was playing with two left arm pace bowlers- Ashish Nehra and Zaheer Khan. It was only the second occasion when India fielded two left arm pacers in the same Test. The only other pair of left arm pacers to appear for India in a Test was that of Umesh Kulkarni and Rusi Surti against Australia at Adelaide, Brisbane and Sydney and against New Zealand at Christchurch in 1967-68. (Though there have been some more instances of two left arm pace bowlers in a Test for India, they used to bowl slow leg-spinners and hence can not be categorised as genuine pace bowlers).

• Andy Flower raced to his fifty in first innings off only 44 balls. This was the second fastest fifty for Zimbabwe in all Tests. The fastest for Zimbabwe still remains with Alistair Campell who took only 40 balls to reach his fifty against Pakistan at Rawalpindi in 1993-94.

• Zimbabwe's first innings total (173) was its all time lowest against India. This obliterated the previous lowest of 201 at Delhi in 1992-93.

• Sameer Dighe, by holding three catches in first innings ,equalled the Indian record of most dismissals by a kepeer in an innings against Zimbabwe. Vijay Dahiya had also taken three catches at Nagpur last year.

• Heath Streak completed his 150 wickets in his 39th Test when he got rid of Saurav Ganguly in first innings. He became first Zimbabwean and 66th bowler in Test history to reach this milestone.

• Sachin Tendulkar (74) recorded his highest score on Zimbabwean soil. His previous highest was a paltry 34 at Harare in 1998-99. This was also his highest in a first class match in Zimbabwe beating the 70 that he made against Zimbabwe Cricket Union's Eleven at Harare (Sunrise Sport Club ground) in 1998-99.

• Tendulkar (74) was top scoring for India in a completed innings on 25th occasion. He became second Indian and 15th batsman overall to do so. Incidentally the only other Indian in this elite group – Sunil Gavaskar- has performed this feat on more occasions (39) than any other batsman in Test history. Among the contemporary batsmen only Australian Steve Waugh (33), West Indian Brian Lara (31),Englishman Mike Atherton (29) and Alec Stewart (27) have top-scored on more occasions than Tendulkar, while Pakistani Inzamam-ul-Haq has also performed this feat on 25 occasions. It was also the 14th such instance for Tendulkar on foreign soil. Gavaskar, with 19 top scores, heads the list of Indians.

• Tendulkar (74) was making his 51st score of fifty plus in a Test. With this he equalled Dilip Vengsarkar's tally of fifty plus scores for India. Only Sunil Gavaskar (79) has more scores of fifty plus for India. Sameer Dighe (47) made his highest score in his second Test improving upon his unbeaten 22 in the Chennai Test against Australia in March this year. His innings was also the highest by an Indian wicketkeeper against Zimbabwe beating Kiran More's 41 at Harare in 1992-93.

• Harbhajan Singh (66) scored his maiden Test fifty in his 12th match. His previous highest was 17* against Australia at Mumbai (Wankhede) in March this year.

• Harbhajan's innings is the highest by a number nine Indian batsman against Zimbabwe. This obliterates Kiran More's 41 at Harare in 1992-93. Incidentally the last Indian batsman to score a fifty at number nine was Javagal Srinath who made 76 against New Zealand at Hamilton in 1998-99. Just for the record, wicket keeper Farokh Engineer holds the Indian record of playing the highest individual innings at number nine. He made 90 against New Zealand at Madras in 1964-65.

• Harbhajan became eighth batsman to score a fifty against Zimbabwe at number nine. New Zealander Daniel Vettori tops the list with 90 in the Bulawayo Test in 1997-98.

• The partnership of 72 runs between Sameer Dighe and Harbhajan Singh was the best for India for the eighth wicket against Zimbabwe in a Test. The pair bettered the previous record stand of 68 between Sanjay Manjrekar and Kiran More at Harare in 1992-93.

• India's total (318) was its highest in a Test in Zimbabwe bettering 307 it made at Harare in 1992-93.

• Guy Whittall's three catches in India's first innings was a new record by a Zimbabwean against India. The previous record was of two catches held by four fieldsmen - John Traicos (twice),Kevin Arnott, Neil Johnson and Heath Streak. Andy Flower's three catches in India's first innings made him the Zimbabwean wicketkeeper with most dismissals in an innings against India. The previous record was of two dismissals also held by Andy Flower on three separate occasions.

• Andy Flower ,by following his first innings 51 with a superb 83 in second innings, top scored in each innings of a Test for the fifth time in his career for Zimbabwe. However it might be a curious case for the statisticians world over how to treat Andy's performance in Delhi Test against India in November last year. Andy had made 183 not out- more than any one else when captain Heath Streak declared the Zimbabwean innings at 422 for nine. Andy was again the top scorer in Zimbabwe's second innings with a score of 70. If we consider this as yet another instance of top scoring in each innings of a Test, then Andy had surpassed India's Sunil Gavaskar's Test record of five such occasions. Interestingly Andy has achieved this feat on three occasions against India and on all the three occasions Zimbabwe has lost the Test match !

• Andy has now scored at least a fifty on nine occasions in last ten innings. His dream run in Test cricket started with the match against New Zealand at Harare last year when he made 48 and 65. Flower then made 183* and 70 against India at Delhi and 55 and 232* at Nagpur. In one-off Test against New Zealand at Wellington, Andy scored 79 and then made 73 and 23 against Bangladesh at Bulawayo and Harare respectively. Andy Flower has now aggregated 982 runs in only 12 innings against India at an average of 140.28 with three hundreds and six fifties !

• Andy Flower has now aggregated 3707 runs in 47 Tests in which he has also kept wickets for Zimbabwe. Flower has now surpassed Australia's Rodney Marsh's run-aggregate of 3633 runs from 96 Tests. Now only England's Alan Knott (4389 runs in 95 Tests) and Australia's Ian Healy (4356 runs in 119 Tests) have scored more runs in a career as wicket keeper than Flower.

• Sachin Tendulkar has now aggregated 5137 runs while batting at number four in Tests - yet another Indian record from the little man ! Tendulkar moved ahead of Gundappa Viswanath who has an aggregate of 5081 runs from 82 matches. Only Pakistan's Javed Miandad (6925) and Australia's Mark Waugh (5714) have scored more runs at this batting position. The following table has the details :

• The victory was India's 66th since its first against England at Madras in 1951-52. It was also the 15th Test win for India on foreign soil since its first aganst New Zealand at Dunedin in 1967-68.

• India had last won a Test match outside the sub-continent way back in 1986 at Headingley (Leeds) in June 1986. India had then beaten England by 279 runs. Since then India has appeared in 39 matches abroad (excluding the matches in sub-continent) without single win losing 19 and drawing rest of the 20.The accompnaying table lists India's wins outside the sub-continent in chronological order :

• India's total (184-2) was its fifth highest in the fourth innings of a Test to win a Test. The best still remains as 406 for four against West Indies at Port-of-Spain in 1975-76. The details :

• Shiv Sundar Das was winning his maiden Man of the Match award in a Test match.

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