Overview

• Rahul reached exactly 100 off 197 balls with 12 fours on the second morning at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad.
• India had earlier bowled West Indies out for 162 and moved into the lead by lunch on Day 2, with Jasprit Bumrah and Mohammed Siraj sharing the damage.
• The 3,211-day interval between Rahul’s home Test hundreds is reported as the longest by an Indian, though outlets differ on whether he surpassed Mohinder Amarnath or Ravichandran Ashwin.
• Rahul now owns 11 Test hundreds overall with 10 as an opener, joining Sunil Gavaskar, Virender Sehwag and Murali Vijay as Indians with double-digit opener tons.
• He moved past Gautam Gambhir and Rohit Sharma, who each have nine hundreds as Test openers for India.