Delhi, Nov 8: 15,000 Test runs. Another match, another milestone crossed for the unstoppable Sachin Tendulkar. Scoring his 28th run in India’s second innings, the miracle man raised the bar even higher for generations of batsmen to come with characteristic ease. Take a look at the numbers that matter from a day that the Little Master made his own.

• Ravichandran Ashwin (six for 47) became the seventh Indian bowler to take five wickets on Test debut. Others to perform this feat for India are: Mohammad Nissar, VV Kumar, S Abid Ali, Dilip Doshi, Narendra Hirwani and Amit Mishra.

• Ashwin’s match figures of nine for 128 are the second best by an Indian bowler on Test debut. Only Narendra Hirwani returned better figures for India on debut when he claimed 16 for 136 also, against West Indies, at Chennai in 1987-‘88.

• Shivnarine Chanderpaul (118 & 47) top-scored in both the innings for West Indies. This was the sixth such instance for Chanderpaul – the first against India. Only Brian Lara (9) has done this more often than Chanderpaul for West Indies.

• Sachin Tendulkar, playing his 300th Test innings, became the first batsman to reach the 15,000 run-mark when he scored his 28th run. Interestingly, no other batsman has scored even 13,000 Test runs.

• Tendulkar also became the leading run-scorer at Feroz Shah Kotla when his score reached 22. He surpassed Dilip Vensarkar’s tally of 671 runs.

• Virender Sehwag made an identical score of 55 in both the innings. He provided only the 17th instance of a batsman making identical scores (of 50 or more) in both innings of a Test. Sehwag is only the second Indian batsman to do so after Sachin Tendulkar, who had made 52 in each innings of the Kolkata Test against Pakistan in 2004-‘05.

• The two sixes he hit in the innings took Sehwag’s career tally of sixes in Test cricket to 87. This puts him ahead of Jacques Kallis (86) and at level with Chris Cairns. Now only Adam Gilchrist (100) and Brian Lara (88) have hit more sixes in Test cricket than Sehwag.