India Vs England 1952 Series: Statistics and Records

Bedser and Trueman created new partnership in bowling to sink India rock bottom.

India Vs England 1952 Series: Trueman and Bedser Sink India
India vs England 1952 Series: Test Results
India Vs England History: Test Series Result

Statistics

    India was bowled out below 100 in three different innnings of the series.
    Sixth time in the history of cricket a team was bowled out twice below 100 in the same test when India was bowled out for 58 and 82 in third test. After that only Pakistan repeat the unwanted feat in 2002. Here is the list of teams being bowled out twice below 100:
    1888 England 53 & 60 vs Australia at Lord’s
    1889 South Africa 47 & 43 vs England at Cape Town
    1895 England 65 & 72 vs Australia at Sydney
    1932 South Africa 36 & 45 Vs Australia at Melbourne
    1946 New Zealand 42 & 54 vs Australia at Wellington
    1952 India 58 & 82 vs England at Manchester
    2002 Pakistan 59 & 53 vs Australia at Sharjah

Series Record

    Captains: Len Hutton (Eng), Vijay Hazare (Ind)
    Wicketkeepers: Evans (Eng), Mantri (Ind)
    Best Batsman: Len Hutton (399), Vijay Hazare (333)
    Best Bowler: Trueman (27), Bedser (20), Ghulam Ahmed (15)
    Highest Team Score: 537 (Eng), 378 (Ind)
    Lowest Team Score: 58, 82 and 98 (Ind), 334 (Eng)
    100s: 6 (Eng 4, Ind 2)
    50s: 15 (Eng 10, Ind 5)
    5wkts in inning: 6 (Eng 4, Ind 2)
    10wkts in inning: 0

Team Records:

    England Scores: 334 and 128/3, 537 and 79/2, 347/9d, 326/6d
    India scores: 293 and 165, 235 and 378, 58 and 82 (f/o), 98
    Follow on: 1 (Ind)

Batting Records

    Highest Centuries: 2 by Hutton
    Highest Ind. Scores or 200-plus: 184 by Mankad
    Centuries:
    150 and 104 (Hutton), 119 (Shepperd), 104 (Evans), 184 (Mankad), 133 (Manjrekar)

Biggest (100-plus) Partnerships
200-plus

    222 4th Hazare & Manjrekar (Ind)
    211 3rd M Mankad & Vijay Hazare (Ind)

100-plus

    105 6th Hazare & Phadkar
    106 1st M Mankad and P Roy (Ind)
    106 1st Hutton & Simpson (Eng)
    158 2nd Hutton & Peter May (Eng)
    159 6th Graveney & Evans (Eng)
    143 1st Hutton & Sheppard (Eng)
    118 2nd Sheppard & Ikin (Eng)

Bowling Records
Best Bowling in an Inning:

    5/100 Ghulam Ahmed
    5/196 M Mankad
    5/41 Bedser
    5/48 Trueman
    8/31 Trueman
    5/27 Bedser

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