Tendulkar has batted most in Tests

Virender Sehwag was captaining India for only the third time in his career. The previous two occasions were against Sri Lanka at Ahmedabad in 2005-06 and against New Zealand at Napier in 2008-09.

— Shafiul Islam was making his Test debut for Bangladesh.

— Umpire Marais Erasmus was making his debut as a Test umpire.

— Mohammad Ashraful was making his 51st Test appearance for Bangladesh. With this he became the most capped player for Bangladesh, surpassing the tally of former captain Habibul Bashar (50).

— Shakib Al Hasan provided the tenth instance of a Bangladesh skipper inserting the opponents into bat after winning the toss. Bangladesh suffered defeat on seven occasions, while won once out of nine previous such instances. One match ended in a draw.

— Virender Sehwag (50) registered his highest score against Bangladesh, beating the previous best of a paltry 13 at Dhaka in 2004-05.

— Sehwag's innings was also his highest as captain, eclipsing the 34 he made against New Zealand at Napier in 2008-09.

— Sehwag took only 45 balls to reach his fifty. This is now the fastest fifty by an Indian batsman against Bangladesh. MS Dhoni had taken 50 balls for his fifty at Mirpur in 2007.

— Rahul Dravid was dismissed bowled for the 42nd time in his Test career. He now shares the Indian record of getting dismissed on most occasions in this fashion, with Sachin Tendulkar. In all Test cricket only Australia's Allan Border (53), New Zealand's John Reid (44) and South Africa's Jacques Kallis (44) have been dismissed 'bowled' on more occasions.

— Sachin Tendulkar was playing his 266th innings in Test cricket - most by any batsman. He was earlier at level with Allan Border with 265 innings.

— Tendulkar, on 30, completed his 13,000 runs in Test cricket. He became the first batsman to reach this milestone.

— VVS Laxman was stumped for only fourth time in his career.

— Shakib Al Hasan completed his 50 wickets with Laxman's dismissal. He became only the fourth Bangladesh bowler to accomplish this feat after Mohammad Rafique (100), Mashrafe Mortaza (78) and Shahadat Hossain (57 -upto the end of first day's play).

— Amit Mishra completed his 2,000 runs in first class cricket playing in his 91st match.

— Shahadat Hossain (4-51) recorded the best figures by a Bangladesh pacer against India.