India has lost 3 Tests in Kanpur: Rohit has 2, Virat has 1 century, Ashwin is the top wicket taker; track record of the stadium
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The second match of the Test series between India and Bangladesh will be played in Kanpur from September 27. The match will be held at Green Park Stadium, where India has won 7 Tests and lost 3 matches so far. Ravichandran Ashwin is the top wicket taker in the current squad here.
Rohit Sharma has scored 2 international centuries and Virat Kohli has scored one in Kanpur. However, both the players could play only one Test here. The pitch of Kanpur helps spinners, so the batsmen of both the teams may face problems.
You will know 3 things in the story…
- Green Park Stadium Track Record
- Performance of Indian Batsmen in Kanpur
- Performance of Indian bowlers in Kanpur
Rohit Sharma top run scorer in Green Park
India’s captain Rohit Sharma is the top run scorer in the current squad at Green Park Stadium. He has scored 2 centuries in ODIs and a fifty in Tests here. He has scored 432 runs in the 5 matches played so far. While Virat Kohli is the second top scorer of the team by scoring 199 runs in the same number of matches. Ravindra Jadeja and Ravichandran Ashwin are the third and fourth top scorers in the current squad. Both of them also shared a partnership of 199 runs in the first Test.
Kohli flopped in the test
All the Indian batsmen have played only 1 Test each in Kanpur, while all-rounder Ashwin and Jadeja have played 2 Tests each here. Jadeja has scored 142 runs in Kanpur Test and Ashwin has scored 110 runs. Rohit Sharma is at number three with 103 runs, he played the only Test here in 2016. Then he played innings of 35 and 68 runs.
Virat Kohli also played his only Test in Kanpur in 2016. Then he could score only 9 and 18 runs. However, KL Rahul has 70 runs and Shubman Gill has 53 runs in Kanpur. Both played their only Test here in 2021.
Ashwin is the top wicket taker
Ravichandran Ashwin is the top wicket taker in India’s current squad in Kanpur. He has taken 19 wickets in 4 matches. Ravindra Jadeja is second after him with 12 wickets. Axar Patel also played a Test here in 2021 along with Jadeja and Ashwin. He took 6 wickets then.
Mohammad Siraj, Kuldeep Yadav, Akash Deep and Jaspreet Bumrah have not been able to play a single Test in Kanpur so far. However, Bumrah has played 2 limited overs matches in Kanpur, in which he has taken 3 wickets.
Ashwin is on top in Tests too
Ashwin and Jadeja have played 2 Tests each in Kanpur. Ashwin has 16 wickets and Jadeja has 11 wickets. Akshar is at number three with 6 wickets. The rest of the bowlers of the team will be seen playing a Test in Kanpur for the first time.
India played 57% test draws, last match also drawn
Test matches are being played at Kanpur’s Green Park Stadium since 1952. Since then, a total of 23 Tests have been held here, India won 7 and lost 3. During this period, about 57% i.e. 13 matches were drawn. Since 2010, only 2 Tests have been played here, both against New Zealand. India won in 2016, while in 2021 New Zealand drew the match.
spinners dominate
There is a possibility of getting a black soil pitch at Green Park Stadium. On this kind of pitch, the ball gets less bounce and as the game progresses, spinners start dominating. So far, spinners have got 346 wickets and pacers have got 260 wickets here.
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