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# India have recorded their 15th win vs West Indies (lost 30 and drawn 44 out of 89 contested) - winning % 16.85.
# India and West Indies have won three Tests each out of ten played at Eden Gardens, Kolkata (drawn four).
# Overall, India have won eleven and lost 9 out of 39 played at Eden Gardens, Kolkata (Drawn 19).
# Of the last four Tests played by India at Eden Gardens, they have won three by an innings margin - two vs West Indies (November 2011 andFebruary 2010). In between India lost to England by seven wickets at this venue in December 2012.
# Having won the series vs Australia by 4-0 this year, India have won five Tests in a row for the first time.as become the first Indian skipper to register 25 Test wins - winning % 52.08 (lost twelve and drawn eleven out of 48 played).
# Under Dhoni's captaincy, India have won eight Tests by an innings, emulating Mohammad Azharuddin's feat.
# Mohammed Shami is the third Indian speedster to capture five wickets or more in an innings on Test debut.
# Shami's excellent figures of five for 47 are the second best by an Indian fast bowler on Test debut, next only to Abid Ali's 6 for 55 vs Australia at Adelaide in December 1967. Mohammad Nissar is the only other Indian fast bowler to take five wickets on Test debut - 5 for 93 vs England at Lords's in June 1932.
# Shami's match figures of 9 for 118 are the best by an Indian speedster on Test debut, outstripping Munaf Patel's seven for 97 vs England at Mohali in March 2006.
# Shami's match figures are the second best by an Indian bowler on Test debut, next only to Narendra Hirwani's 16 for 136 vs West Indies at Chennai in January 1988.
# Shami's break-up of his 26 international wickets are - caught 12, bowled 11 and lbw 3.
# Rohit Sharma, with his 177 off 301 balls, has established a record for the highest individual innings by a number six batsman on Test debut, outstripping Australia's Doug Walters' 155 off 315 balls vs England at Brisbane in December 1965.
# Rohit's aforesaid innings is the second highest by an Indian batsman on Test debut, next only to the 187 by Shikhar Dhawan vs Australia at Mohali in March this year.
# Rohit is the fifth Indian player to be adjudged the Man of the Match on Test debut - the other four being Pravin Amre, R.P.Singh, Ravichandran Ashwin and Shikhar Dhawan.
# Ravichandran Ashwin (124 off 210 balls) has recorded a career-best score - his second century in Tests - both against the West Indies - his first was 103 at Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai in November 2011.
# Ashwin's aforesaid innings is the third highest by number eight batsman for India in Tests - the top two being Mahendra Singh Dhoni's 144 vs West Indies in November 2011 and 132 not out vs South Africa in February 2010 - both at Eden Gardens, Kolkata.
# Ashwin is now the fourth Indian batsman to register two centuries as number eight batsman in Tests - the first three being Kapil Dev, Harbhajan Singh and Mahendra Singh Dhoni.
# Overall 14 hundreds at number eighth position have been recorded for India in Tests.
# Ashwin's match figures of 124 and five wickets are his second best as an all-rounder in Tests, next only to the 117 (103 + 14) and 9 for 190 runs vs West Indies in the 2011-12 Mumbai Test. His other instance of 100 runs and five wickets in the match being - 112 (21 + 91*) and five for 214 vs England at Kolkata in December 2012.
# Besides being the Indian only all-rounder to post a hundred in an innings and claim five wickets or more in the same match twice, four other all-rounders have accomplished the feat once each for India in Tests - Vinoo Mankad, Polly Umrigar, Anil Kumble and Harbhajan Singh.
# Rohit Sharma and Ravichandran Ashwin, with their 280-run stand, have established a seventh-wicket partnership record for India in Tests, obliterating the 259 (unbroken) between VVS Laxman and Mahendra Singh Dhoni vs South Africa at Kolkata in February 2010.
# Overall, five partnerships of 200-plus have been registered for India for the seventh wicket in Tests. The tally includes three vs West Indies. Dhoni and Laxman had recorded 224 in the 2011-12 Kolkata Test - the previous highest seventh-wicket partnership for India vs West Indies.
# The 280-run partnership is now the highest by any pair for the seventh wicket vs West Indies in Tests. In fact, all three 200-plus stands for the seventh wicket against West Indies have been recorded by the Indian pairs.
# A new record has been established by India's number 6, 7 and 8 batsmen in the same innings - their combined tally of 343 is an Indian record, obliterating the 295 vs Pakistan at Bangalore in 2007-08.
# The tally of 343 is now the joint-fourth highest by number 6, 7 and 8 in the same innings in the history of Test cricket - the highest being 428 by Australia vs England at Melbourne in 1936-37.
# Shane Shillingford has captured five wickets or more in an innings five times in Tests - his first instance away from home.
# Shillingford's figures of 6 for 167 are his third best in Tests, next only to the 6 for 49 vs Zimbabwe at Bridgetown in March 2013 and 6 for 119 vs Australia at Roseau in April 2012.
# Shillingford is the eighth West Indian spinner to take five wickets in an innings vs India - the last to do so was Carl Hooper at Nagpur in December 1994. Lance Gibbs has achieved the feat four times vs India in Tests.
# Shillingford's figures are the best by a West Indian spinner at Eden Gardens, eclipsing Lance Gibbs' figures of five for 51 in the 1966-67 Test.
# Apart from two West Indian spinners, three other West Indian bowlers have claimed five wickets or more in an innings against India at Eden Gardens - Roy Gilchrist, Malcolm Marshall and Andy Roberts.
# Shillingford (55-9-167-6) has earned a dubious distinction by conceding most number of runs by a West Indian bowler vs India in a Test innings, eclipsing Dave Mohammed's figures of 29.5-3-162-3 at St.John's in June 2006.
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