Statistical highlights on the fourth day of the first Test between India [ Images ] and England [ Images ] inj Chennai on Sunday.

Day III stats

# Paul Collingwood [ Images ] (108) recorded his 7th Test hundred - his second against India. In the 2005-06 Nagpur Test, he had played a beautiful innings of 134 off 252 balls.

# With two outstanding innings, Andrew Strauss [ Images ] (123 & 108) is now the second batsman to maker a hundred in each innings of a Test match for England against India. Graham Gooch (333 & 123) had made a triple century and a century at Lord's in 1990.

# Strauss is the tenth player to record a century in each innings of a Test match for England. Herbert Sutcliffe had achieved the distinction two times - 176 & 127 vs Australia [ Images ] at Melbourne [ Images ] in 1924-25 and 104 & an unbeaten 109 against South Africa [ Images ] in the 1929 Oval Test.

# Besides Strauss and Sutcliffe, eight other English players have achieved the distinction: Eddie Paynter, Dennis Compton, Jack Russell, Wally Hammond,  Graham Gooch, Alec Stewart, Michael Vaughan [ Images ] and Marcus Trescothick [ Images ].

# Strauss' third hundred against India is his 14th in Test Cricket.

# Strauss and Collingwood shared a partnership of 214 -- England's best ever stand for the fourth wicket against India in India, surpassing the 206 between Ted Dexter and Ken Barrington at Kanpur in 1961-62.

# The 214-run partnership between Strauss and  Collingwood is the highest ever stand for the fourth wicket at Chepauk, eclipsing the 190 between Mohinder Amarnath and Mohammad Azharuddin [ Images ] for India against England in 1984-85.

# With Strauss' wicket, Harbhajan Singh [ Images ] (310) has become the second most successful off-spinner in Test annals, overtaking Lance Gibbs' tally of 309. Sri Lanka's [ Images ] Muttiah Muralitharan [ Images ], who holds a world record for most wickets in Test Cricket, is the leading off-spinner with 756 wickets.

# Andrew Flintoff [ Images ] is without a fifty in his last nine innings in Test Cricket.

# Flintoff, in four Tests this year, has averaged 22.50 - 135 in eight innings.

# Virender Sehwag [ Images ] took his 50th catch, his victim being Matt Prior [ Images ].

# Zaheer Khan [ Images ] (2/41 + 3/40) registered his best figures in a Test match at Chennai.

# Virender Sehwag (1445 at an average of 60.20 in 13 Tests) has become the leading run-getter in the calendar year 2008, outstripping South Africa's Graeme Smith's [ Images ] aggregate of 1363 (ave. 71.73) in 13 Tests.

# Sehwag's 18th Test fifty is his fourth against England.

# Sehwag's 83 is his highest Test innings in the fourth innings of a Test match.

# With his 32-ball fifty, Sehwag has set a record for the fastest Test half-century by an Indian batsman against England. Sehwag's 32-ball half-century is now the second fastest by an Indian batsman in Test cricket, next only to Kapil Dev's [ Images ] 30-ball fifty against Pakistan in the 1982-83 Karachi Test.

# Sehwag now has 65 sixes in Test cricket - a new Indian record for most career sixes, bettering Kapil Dev's tally of 61.

# Sehwag and Gambhir registered their fifth century partnership for the first wicket - their first against England. The 117-run stand between this pair is the highest ever for the opening wicket for India against England at Chennai, beating the 53 between Mushtaq Ali and Pankaj Roy in 1951-52.

# For the first time in India, England (316 & 311/9 wickets declared) have made 300 runs or more in each innings of a Test match.