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By the numbers: West Indies v India

The Windies' defiant draw with India in Jamaica produced a host of unique numbers

4 – The number of West Indies allrounders who have scored a century and taken a five-wicket haul in the same Test. Twenty-four-year-old Roston Chase, playing in just his second Test, became the fourth West Indies player to bag the innings double, joining a club that includes Denis Atkinson (1955), Collie Smith (1959) and Sir Garfield Sobers (1962 and 1966). Chase grabbed five wickets for 121 runs with his off-spin and scored an unbeaten 137, which was also his highest first-class score, on the final day to avert what was appearing a likely defeat for the home team when they started the day at 4-48, still 256 runs in arrears. Chase became the first West Indian to achieve the feat in 50 years.

Four is also the number of West Indies spinners with a five-for in Tests at Sabina Park. The three before Chase were Nehemiah Perry against Australia in 1999, Alf Valentine against India in 1953 and Tommy Scott against England in 1930.

41 – The balls taken by Jermaine Blackwood to reach his 50, the second fastest by a West Indian against India in Tests. It bettered his own 47-ball fifty, scored in the first innings of the match. The record belongs to Sir Viv Richards, who scored a half-century off 32 balls, also at Sabina Park, in 1983. Blackwood, who got a pair in the previous Test in Antigua, is also the first West Indian since Shivnarine Chanderpaul (v Bangladesh in Saint Lucia, 2014) to score 50 or more runs in each innings of the Test.

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340 – The total runs scored by West Indies on the fifth day, the most ever on the fifth day’s play at Sabina Park and third most at any Caribbean venue. The only two occasions when more than 340 runs were scored on the final day in the Caribbean are: 357 between West Indies and India at Basseterre in 2006 and 367 - again between West Indies and India - at Georgetown in 1971.

1 – The number of times the Windies' number five, six, seven and eight batsmen have all scored more than 50 runs in the same innings. With Blackwood, Chase, Shane Dowrich and Jason Holder all scoring fifties on the final day, the Jamaica Test marked the first such instance for West Indies. Overall, it was fifth time it's happened in Tests.

15 – The number of consecutive Tests that Sabina Park had hosted without a draw, stretching back to the infamous match West Indies and England match in 1998 which was abandoned after 55 minutes due to a dangerous pitch. The match between West Indies and India was the first without a winner in 18 years at the venue.

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22 – The number of sixes hit in the match: 14 by West Indies and eight by India, the joint-most in a Test in the Caribbean. It equaled the previous record – 22 maximums in a clash between the Windies and South Africa in Basseterre in 2010.

145 – The number of overs lost in the match due to rain. Just 27 of the minimum 90 overs were bowled on the third day, while on the fourth day just 16 of the minimum 98 overs were bowled. Additionally, two overs were lost on the second day due to the slow over-rate, despite 30 extra minutes of play.

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– The number of Indian bowlers who have taken a five-wicket haul in four consecutive Tests. Ravichandran Ashwin, the current No.1 bowler in the ICC Test Rankings, became just the third player to achieve this feat, joining Bhagwat Chandrashekhar and Anil Kumble. He took 5-52 in the first innings of the match and before that had taken a five-for in Antigua and against South Africa in Delhi and Nagpur last year. If Ashwin takes another five-fer in the next Test, he’ll become the first Indian to make it four in a row.

Three is also the number of fifties that India opening batsman KL Rahul has converted into hundreds. The only other Indian to manage this was Mohammad Azharuddin.

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385 – The number of wicket-less deliveries Jason Holder bowled between two Test wickets. When he dismissed Wriddhiman Saha during a marathon bowling spell at Sabina Park, he earned his first scalp in almost 64 overs, breaking a drought that stretched back to the match against Australia at the MCG late last year, where he dismissed Usman Khawaja. Between dismissing Khawaja and Saha, he bowled 64.1 overs without a wicket.

6 – The number of times Marlon Samuels has been dismissed by Ashwin in Tests. Only Muttiah Muralidaran (seven) has dismissed him more often. Samuels has scored just 68 runs off Ashwin at an average of 11.33.

14.00 – The batting average of Rajendra Chandrika in Tests, the lowest for any opening batsman who has played at least ten innings in the last five years. The next in the list is South Africa’s Stiaan van Zyl (15.60) and then Sri Lanka’s Lahiru Thirimanne (19.09).