India closed on their highest total from a day’s play, surpassing their previous best of 386 for 1 against South Africa at Chennai in 2007-08.
Gautam Gambhir (167) scored his fourth hundred in consecutive matches. The sequence started with 137 against New Zealand at Napier (second innings), 167 v NZ at Wellington (second innings), 114 v SL at Ahmedabad (second innings) and 167 in this match.
The hundred was also Gambhir’s seventh in the last nine Tests.
Gambhir and Sehwag provided only the sixth instance of both Indian openers scoring a hundred in the same innings.
This is only the third time in India’s Test history when they posted four consecutive totals of 400 or more. Between October 1986 and February 1987 India had scored 400+ in six consecutive innings, which is a world record. Between August and October 2002, India had another sequence of four consecutive scores of 400 (or more).
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