BULK of records at Kanpur

With Virender Sehwag and Gautam Gambhir posted brilliant centuries India cruised to a mammoth score of 417 for 2 wickets at the Green Park stadium, Kanpur on Tuesday against Sri Lanka in the second cricket test. The day completely dominated by the Indians.
In the process India created some interesting records.
417 runs are the highest score by Indian team on day one of any test match and also highest total for any day of the test match.
In the previous test at Ahmedabad India posted 6 for 385 on the first day now India overtook that score.
List of most runs on a first day of a test (India).
2/417, Vs Sri Lanka, Kanpur, 2009-10
6/385, Vs Sri Lanka, Ahmedabad, 2009-10
9/375, Vs New Zealand, Wellington, 2008-09
7/372, Vs South Africa, Bloemfontein, 2001-02
6/365, Vs Pakistan, Bangalore, 2007-08
Most runs in any day of a test (India)
2/417, 1st day, Vs Sri Lanka, Kanpur, 2009-10
1/386, 2nd day, Vs South Africa, Chepauk, 2007-08
6/385, 1st day, Vs Sri Lanka, Ahmedabad, 2009-10
378, 2nd day, Vs England, The Oval, 1936
9/375, 1st day, Vs New Zealand, Wellington, 2008-09
This was the 6th occasion when both openers scored hundred in the same innings for India.
The list is here.
Vijay Merchant (114) & S Mushtaq Ali (112) Vs England, Manchester, 1936
Vinoo Mankad (231) & Pankaj Roy (173) Vs New Zealand, Chennai, 1955-56
Sunil Gavaskar (172) & K Srikkanth (116) Vs Australia, Sydney, 1985-86
V Sehwag (254) & Rahul Dravid (128*), Vs Pakistan, Lahore, 2005-06
Dinesh Karthik (129) & Wasim Jaffer (138*) Vs Bangladesh, Mirpur, 2007
4 consecutive hundred by Gautam Gambhir
With the century at Kanpur Gautam Gambhir became only 3rd batsmen for India to have scored 4 consecutive 100 in test matches.
Gambhir score 137 at Napier and 167 at Wellington when India toured New Zealand in March-April this year and after that he scored 114 at Ahmedabad last week. Now he has scored 167 at Kanpur. Only Sunil Gavaskar and Rahul Dravid have done it before Gambhir. Gavaskar scored 108 against England at The Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai in 1976-77 and then went on to score 113 at Brisbane, 127 at Perth and 118 at Melbourne against Australia in 1977-78 series down under.
Rahul Dravid scored 115 at Trent Bridge, 148 at Leeds and 217 at The Oval in 2002 and then 100* at The Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai against West Indies in October 2002.
Partnership for the first wicket
Sehwag and Gambhir have put on 233 runs for the first wicket in this match. This is the 3rd best first wicket partnership for India. Vinoo Mankad and Pankaj Roy have added 413 runs against New Zealand at Chennai in 1955-56 and Sehwag and Dravid have put on 410 against Pakistan at Lahore in 2005-06.