Kolkata, Nov 14: With most eyes trained on Sachin Tendulkar and his elusive hundredth 100, Rahul Dravid stole the show at Eden with his 36th Test ton. Adding one more laurel to an already decorated career, the No. 3 batsman moved closer to the staggering 13,000-run mark in Tests. Striking another fruitful partnership with VVS Laxman, Dravid even entertained with two sixes in what was another masterful innings. Take a look at the numbers that matter from the opening day of the Eden Test.

• Fidel Edwards was playing his 50th Test match. He became the 235th player overall and 29th from West Indies to appear in 50 Tests. Incidentally, Edwards is the first West Indies fast bowler since Courtney Walsh’s retirement to make 50 Test appearances.

• Sachin Tendulkar completed 24,000 runs in first-class cricket when his score reached 33. He became only the second Indian after Sunil Gavaskar (25,834) to do so.

• Rahul Dravid’s 119 was his …

• fourth at Eden Gardens

• fifth against West Indies

• fifth in Tests in 2011

• 15th at home

• 28th at No. 3

• 36th in Test cricket

• 68th in first-class cricket

• Dravid, on 117, became the highest run-scorer in Tests in 2011, surpassing England’s Ian Bell’s tally of 950 runs. However, Bell averages 118.75 this year as against Dravid’s 59.50

• For the first time in his Test career, Dravid hit two sixes in an innings. It took him 276 innings to hit two sixes in an innings – the longest for any batsman. Australia’s Steve Waugh had hit two sixes for the first (and only time) in his 237th innings. Incidentally, England’s Mike Atherton played 212 innings without ever hitting more than one six.

• VVS Laxman, on 24, completed 1,500 runs against West Indies. He became the fourth Indian after Sunil Gavaskar (2,749), Rahul Dravid (1,863) and Dilip Vengsarkar (1,596) to do so.

• Rahul Dravid and VVS Laxman became third Indian pair, and only the ninth in the world, to aggregate 4,000 runs in partnerships. These two have now added 4,049 runs in 84 innings at an average of 52.58. Only the Dravid-Tendulkar pair (6,656 @ 50.80) and Tendulkar-Ganguly pair (4,173 @ 61.36) are ahead of the Dravid-Laxman pair for India.

• Incidentally, Dravid is only the third batsman to add 4,000 runs with two different partners. India’s Sachin Tendulkar (with Dravid and Sourav Ganguly) and Australia’s Matthew Hayden (with Justin Langer and Ricky Ponting) are the others to do so.

• Ishant Sharma came in as nightwatchman for the eighth time in his Test career. He now has an identical success-failure record as a nightwatchman. He has managed to survive till the close of play on four occasions and failed to do so an equal number of times.

• India’s score of 346 for five is the third-highest first-day score at Eden Gardens after West Indies’ 359 for three in 1958-‘59 and India’s 352 for three against Pakistan in 2007-‘08. Interestingly, sides conceding 300 runs on the opening day at Eden Gardens have never won the Test.

• The first maiden over for West Indies came only after 46 overs (bowled by Kemar Roach to Sachin Tendulkar). West Indies managed only one more in the day.