– India have won seven, lost one and drawn five out of 13 Tests played at Mohali. India’s win/loss record of 7-0 at this venue is the third best by any team in any venue during the last 20 years.

– For the first time, India have won four successive Tests at Mohali — between 2010 and 2016 — two against Australia and one each against South Africa and England.

– India have played 16 consecutive undefeated Tests between August 2015 and November 2016 — their second longest unbeaten sequence behind the 17 Tests between 1985 and 1987.

– Parthiv Patel’s unbeaten knock of 67 is his second highest score in Tests, next only to the 69 vs Pakistan at Rawalpindi in April 2004.

– Patel is averaging 52.60 in a winning cause in Tests: his tally being 263 in eight innings, including two fifties.

– Overall, Patel has scored five 50s in Tests: two each against Pakistan and Australia and one vs England.

– Vijay, for the first time in 21 Tests on Indian soil, has recorded a duck.

– Root, with two catches in India’s second innings on November 29, became the first England fielder to take 25 catches or more in a calendar year in 15 Tests. The said tally is the highest by any fielder in Tests in 2016.

– Root’s tally of 11 fifty-plus innings (3 centuries and 8 fifties) is the highest by any batsman this year in Tests.

– Virat Kohli, as skipper, has won 12 Tests, lost two and drawn six out of 20 Tests — winning percentage 60.00. India, under Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s captaincy, had similar figures in his first 20 Tests.