VVS Laxman top India’s batting averages. surprisingly, he is atop the bowling list too

•Man of the Series Sourav Ganguly who claimed the third spot behind Laxman and Irfan Pathan in batting averages for India, scored the highest number of runs in the series. The Prince of Kolkata, scored 534 runs at 89.00 with two hundreds and one fifty in six innings of three Test matches.

•Ganguly, who amassed 1000 runs in a calendar year — 1023 runs — (ave.63.93) for the first time in his career surpassing his previous best of 945 runs in 16 Tests in 2002. His three centuries and four fifties this year came in nine Tests.

• As many as 10 centuries were scored, six by Indian batsmen and four from Pakistan side. Ganguly and Misbah hit two century each while Younis Khan, Kamran Akmal, Wasim Jaffer Yuvraj Singh, VVS Laxman and Irfan Pathan scored one century each.

• Anil Kumble, Ishant Sharma, Harbhajan Singh claimed one five wicket-haul each for the home team while Yasir Arafat was the lone Pakistani bowler who achieved this feat.

•It was India’s first series victory under Anil Kumble and first against Pakistan at home after 27 years. India’s last series victory against Pakistan at home came in 1979-80 when they won six-Test series 2-0 under Sunil Gavaskar.