Delhi, Nov 7: A day of tumbling wickets and changing fortunes. Shivnarine Chanderpaul’s fluent century on Day 1, and a lightening quick partnership between Gambhir and Sehwag at the start of Day 2, may have given the impression that this was going to be a batsman’s Test; but the day revealed another story. Batsmen merely came and went, some mildly successful, others not at all, while the bolwers’ tally stood at a staggering 17 wickets at stumps. Take a look at the numbers that matter from a busy day at the Kotla.

• West Indies could add only 48 runs to their overnight total and lost their last five wickets in just 17.2 overs. Four of those batsmen were out lbw.

• Pragyan Ojha (six for 72) returned his best figures in Test cricket, beating his previous best of four for 107 against New Zealand at Ahmedabad in 2010-‘11.

• Ojha’s figures are now the best by an Indian left-arm spinner against West Indies, bettering Venkatapathy Raju’s five for 60 at Mumbai in 1994-‘95.

• Interestingly, the last left-arm spinner to take a five-wicket haul for India was Sunil Joshi in November 2000 when he returned figures of five for 142 against Bangladesh at Dhaka.

• There were as many as five lbw dismissals in the West Indies innings. This provided the ninth instance of a side losing five or more of their batsmen in this fashion in an innings on Indian soil. The last team to suffer this fate in India was South Africa at Kolkata in 2009-‘10. Incidentally, West Indies had lost six wickets in this fashion at Mohali in 1994-‘95.

• Gautam Gambhir and Virender Sehwag added 89 runs for the opening wicket – their 20th fifty stand for the opening wicket (the two have also posted 10 century stands between them). Incidentally, this was the first time the two were opening the Indian innings together against West Indies.

• Virender Sehwag raced to his fifty off just 36 balls – the fastest fifty by an Indian batsman against West Indies in India. Sunil Gavaskar had taken 37 balls for his fifty at the same ground in 1983-‘84 on the way to 121.

• Incidentally, Sehwag also holds the record for scoring the fastest fifty for India against West Indies. He had taken 33 balls for his fifty at Gros Islet in 2005-‘06.

• Playing his 49th Test, Fidel Edwards completed 150 wickets in Test cricket when he trapped Sachin Tendulkar lbw. He became the 12th West Indies player to reach this landmark.

• 17 wickets fell on the day – the second highest number of wickets to fall in a day’s play at Feroz Shah Kotla. 18 wickets had fallen on the first day of the India-West Indies Test in 1987-‘88. There have been three other instances of 17 wickets falling in a day at Kotla.

• Pragyan Ojha is all set to take 50 Test wickets for India. Playing his 12th Test, he is now only one wicket away from this milestone, a feat that no other Indian left-arm spinner has achieved in as few matches. Salim Durani, who reached the milestone in his 14th Test, holds this record for India.