Dilip Vengsarkar scored his first 50 in Test cricket after 19 innings - 78 against Australia in the second innings of the fifth and final Test at Adelaide in 1977-78. However, he had scores of 48, 49, 48 and 44 earlier in the series.

He scored his first Test century after 29 innings - an unbeaten 157 against the West Indies at Kolkata in 1978-79. He got a pair in the next Test at Madras but carved a hundred in the following Test at New Delhi.