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In Stats: Performers in India-WI Series & Records at Port of Spain

The Quint previews the fourth Test between India and West Indies through numbers.

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The final Test match of the 4-match series between West Indies and India begins on Thursday.

The match will be played at a venue India can call their favorite venue while playing overseas – Port of Spain. At the Queen’s Park Oval in Port of Spain, India have won three Tests – which is the most the Indian team has won at any one particular venue while playing overseas.

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The Quint previews the fourth Test between India and West Indies through numbers.
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The three Test wins at the Queen’s Park Oval include the historic win in 1971 and the famous win in 1976. The 7-wicket victory in 1971 was historic because it was India’s first-ever win against the West Indies – coming in the 25th attempt.

The win in 1976 is special because India, courtesy centuries by Sunil Gavaskar and Gundappa Viswanath, and contributions from the rest of the top order, chased down a fourth innings target in excess of 400, which had been accomplished only once previously in Test cricket history.

The Quint previews the fourth Test between India and West Indies through numbers.
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Weather-permitting, one can expect yet another result-oriented Test match at the Queen’s Park Oval; 12 of the last 14 Test matches played at that venue have finished with definite results, though mostly in favour of the visiting team.

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The Indian team will yet again have to make a few allowances for poor weather; according to the weather bureau, spells of showers are forecast in Port-of- Spain during the course of the Test match.

Well-oiled and champion teams generally operate on the basis that their batsmen set up the match and the bowlers then polish off the opponent and win them the game. The Indian team has operated on this principle in this series; five Indian batsmen have scored at least a century and each one of them has gone on to accumulate in excess of 200 runs in the series.

This is in stark contrast to the West Indies, for who Roston Chase is the lone centurion and the highest run-getter with a series aggregate of 190 runs.

The Quint previews the fourth Test between India and West Indies through numbers.
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Much of the credit for India’s domination of the West Indies in this Test series has to go to the bowling line-up who have dismantled the hosts five times in six innings so far on tour.

In fact, in their last ten Test matches, India have bowled out their opponents twice in a Test match on as many as 8 occasions, with the weather denying them the chance in Bengaluru and Kingston.

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India’s performance in this series – of picking up 56 West Indies wickets at an average of a wicket every eight and a half overs – is currently the team’s second-best bowling performance in an overseas Test series of three Tests or more.

The Quint previews the fourth Test between India and West Indies through numbers.
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If one were to go by numbers, the bowlers can expect to have yet another productive outing in the Test match that begins on Thursday. Unlike at the three previous venues, Test matches at the Queen’s Park Oval haven’t been high-scoring contests; in the 14 Test matches at Port-of- Spain since 1998, the average total of the team batting first is 306, with teams posting totals in excess of 350 only thrice.

The Quint previews the fourth Test between India and West Indies through numbers.
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If history is any indication, then expect another lively contest between bat and ball at the Queen’s Park Oval when the fourth Test gets underway.

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