India Have Chased 200-Plus Targets Successfully In The Last Few Years

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[b] But those instances have all been in the subcontinent. Overseas, the numbers don't look so pretty[/b].

For India, this continues a terrible run in overseas Tests, with this being their fifth consecutive overseas defeat. In 2011, India's batting average in [url="http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/stats/index.html?class=1;filter=advanced;home_or_away=2;home_or_away=3;orderby=team_average;spanmin1=01+jan+2011;spanval1=span;template=results;type=team"]overseas Tests[/url] has been 27.59 runs per wicket; only Bangladesh and New Zealand fared worse abroad.

India's MCG jinx continued too - they've lost [url="http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/stats/index.html?class=1;filter=advanced;ground=61;orderby=start;orderbyad=reverse;spanmin1=01+jan+1930;spanval1=span;team=6;template=results;type=team;view=results"]five in a row[/url] here, since 1991-92. This was also India's sixth defeat in the first Test of an overseas series since their previous tour to Australia in 2007-08. They've lost twice in Sri Lanka and Australia, and once each in South Africa and England.

[color=#FF0000][b]India have won five Tests when chasing a target of more than 200 since 2008, but all those have been in the subcontinent (four in India and one in Sri Lanka). Outside the subcontinent, their record is much poorer: they've chased fourth-innings targets of between 200 and 400 [/b][/color][b][url="http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/stats/index.html?class=1;continent=1;continent=3;continent=4;continent=5;filter=advanced;innings_number=4;orderby=result;qualmax1=400;qualmin1=200;qualval1=target;spanmin1=01+Jan+1990;spanval1=span;team=6;template=results;type=team;view=innings"][color=#FF0000]eighteen times[/color][/url][color=#FF0000] since 1990, and have lost eight, won one, and drawn the rest. Their only win was the one in Adelaide in 2003. Most of the [/color][url="http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/stats/index.html?class=1;continent=1;continent=3;continent=4;continent=5;filter=advanced;host=1;host=2;host=3;host=5;innings_number=3;innings_number=4;orderby=runs;spanmin1=01+Jan+2000;spanval1=span;team=6;template=results;type=batting;view=host"][color=#FF0000]Indian batsmen[/color][/url][/b][color=#FF0000][b] have struggled in the third and fourth innings of Tests outside the subcontinent.[/b][/color]

[color=#FF0000][b]India's second innings lasted only 47.5 overs. In terms of balls faced, that's the lowest for them in the [url="http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/stats/index.html?class=1;event=1;filter=advanced;host=2;innings_number=3;innings_number=4;orderby=team_overs;orderbyad=reverse;team=6;template=results;type=team;view=innings"]second innings in Australia[/url] since Adelaide 1999, when they were bundled out in 38.1 overs.[/b][/color]

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