Mumbai, Nov 22: The opening day of the Wankhede Test revealed a solid West Indies batting unit, eager to salvage the third and last Test of a series they have already lost. The first four batsmen scored a fifty apiece while the team ended the day on 267 for two. For India, Varon Aaron made his Test debut while skipper Dhoni became the wicketkeeper with the most Test dismissals in 2011.

Take a look at the numbers that matter from Day 1 of the final Test.

• Test cricket returned to Wankhede after a gap of five years and eight months. The last Test played here was between India and England in March 2006.

• Varun Aaron became the 273rd player to represent India in Test cricket. He also became the second Test cricketer from Jharkhand after MS Dhoni.

• Interestingly, Aaron has also made his ODI debut at this ground, against England last month. He thus became only the sixth Indian player to make his Test and ODI debuts at the same ground.

• With the dismissal of Adrian Barath (off R Ashwin), MS Dhoni became the leading wicketkeeper in Tests in 2011, surpassing Matt Prior’s tally of 36 dismissals.

• Dhoni also equalled Syed Kirmani’s Indian record of most (36) dismissals against West Indies with Barath’s dismissal.

• The first four West Indies batsmen – Barath (62), Kraigg Brathwaite (68), Kirk Edwards (65*) and Darren Bravo (57*) all scored fifties. This was only the third time that the first four batsmen scored fifties together in the same innings for West Indies. The other such instances were against India at Brabourne in 1948-49 [Allen Ray (104), Jeff Stollmeyer (66), Clyde Walcott (68) and Everton Weekes (194)] and v England at Leeds in 1976 [Roy Fredericks (109), Gordon Greenidge (115), Viv Richards (66) and Lawrence Rowe (50)].

• This was the 11th instance of the first four batsmen scoring fifties in the same innings against India – the fourth on Indian soil. The details:

WI (629-6d) Mumbai BS 1948-49 (Drawn)

Eng (652-7d) Chennai 1984-85 (England won by 9 wickets)

Aus (577) Delhi 2008-09 (Drawn)

WI (267-2) Mumbai WS 2011-12 (Match in progress)

• This was only the third instance of a side losing only two wickets on the opening day of a Test at Wankhede (excluding matches where play was not possible for most part of the day because of rain). Australia made 217 for two in 1986-87and India made 278 for two against West Indies in 2002-03.