Barbados, June 30: Rain may have played a starring role on Day 3 of the Bridgetown Test, but there were a few cricketing feats that made the truncated day’s play worthwhile. Ishant Sharma joined the 100-wicket club in Tests while returning career-best figures, India sneaked in a narrow first innings lead and Marlon Samuels put up some good resistance to the Indian bowlers for his unbeaten 78. Take a look at the day’s story in numbers.

• 42 overs of play were possible on Day 3 – an improvement of 16.3 overs from Day 2.

• Ishant Sharma completed 100 wickets in Test cricket with the dismissal of Darren Sammy. He became the 17th Indian and 157th bowler in Test annals to complete a century of wickets in Test cricket.

• At 22 years 301 days, Ishant is the fourth youngest bowler in Test cricket to reach the 100-wicket landmark. Only Kapil Dev (21 years 25 days), Daniel Vettori (21 years 46 days) and Harbhajan Singh (21 years 319 days) were younger than Ishant when they accomplished this feat.

• Marlon Samuels’ unbeaten 78 was his second highest score in 26 innings in the Caribbean. Interestingly, his best of 87 had also come against India – at Basseterre in 2006.

• Ishant Sharma (six for 55) returned his best figures in Test cricket, bettering his five for 118 against Pakistan at Bangalore in 2007-08. Incidentally, these are the two five wicket-hauls Ishant has got in his Test career.

• Ishant’s figures are the best by an Indian bowler at Bridgetown beating Dattu Phadkar’s five for 64 in 1952-53.

• Ishant’s figures are also the best by a pacer and second best overall for India in the Caribbean after Subash Gupte’s seven for 162 at Port-of-Spain in 1952-53. The previous best figures by an Indian pacer in West Indies were Kapil Dev’s six for 84 at Kingston in 1988-89.

• West Indies’ total of 190 is their second lowest against India at Bridgetown. The lowest still remains 140 in 1996-97.

• Indiagot a slender lead of 11 runs; this is the first time that India have got a first innings lead against West Indies at Bridgetown.

• India have now notched up a first innings lead in three consecutive Tests against West Indies – by 97 runs at Kingston in 2006, by 73 runs (also at Kingston in the first Test of this series) and now by 11 runs at Bridgetown. Incidentally, India won both previous games in which they got a first innings lead against West Indies.

• The 23-run unbroken partnership between Abhinav Mukund and Murali Vijay is India’s best for the opening wicket in the series. These two had added 15, 0 and 1 in three previous innings.