Stats highlights from Pune, where India’s right-arm offspinners took all 10 wickets in an innings for the first ever time
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1 Washington Sundar and R Ashwin recorded the first instance of all ten wickets in a men’s Test innings being taken by right-arm offspinners for India. Ashwin took the first three wickets to fall, while Sundar took the next seven.4 Instances of right-arm offspinners sharing all ten wickets in a men’s Test innings since Jim Laker’s ten-wicket haul in 1956. Muthiah Muralidaran and Ajantha Mendis shared all ten wickets in India’s second innings in the 2008 Colombo Test, the previous such instance before the Pune Test.Muralidaran also shared ten wickets with Kumar Dharmasena and Jayananda Warnaweera against Pakistan in the 1994 Colombo Test, while Tony Greig employed offspin for his eight-wicket haul in the 1974 Port of Spain Test against West Indies, with Pat Pocock taking the other two.Related
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61 Balls bowled by Washington between his seven wickets, after being wicketless in the first 13 overs. Only one Indian took seven wickets in the space of fewer balls in a men’s Test innings since 2000 – 60 by Anil Kumble against Australia in Chennai in 2004, after seven wicketless overs.