England did not lose 10 wickets in a session between 1938 and 2016. Today is the 3rd time they have done this in 2 years (24 Tests). Others: v Bangladesh at Mirpur 2016 and v NZ Auckland 2018.
England's best bowling figures in Chennai:
1st inns: Bess 26-5-76-4
2nd inns: Leach 26-4-76-4.
It is the 1st time in Tests that a team has had identical best bowling figures in each innings in Overs-Runs-Wkts.
Cameron Green scored 228 runs at 32.57 and took 13 wickets at 15.76 in the Ashes series.
No Australian has scored more runs at a higher average and taken more wickets at a lower average in a Test series.
Teams dismissing opposition twice in a Test with no bowlers who took 1st inns wkts taking 2nd inns wkts:
Eng v Aus The Oval 2019
1st: Archer 6, Curran 3, Woakes 1
2nd: Broad 4, Leach 4, Root 2
Eng v SL Galle 2021
1st: Anderson 6, Wood 3, Curran 1
2nd: Bess 4, Leach 4, Root 2
Teams losing all 20 wickets on days 4 & 5 of a scheduled 5-day Test to lose:
Bangladesh v New Zealand Wellington 2001
Bangladesh v Pakistan Mirpur 2021
Players born on Christmas Day have scored more Test runs for England - 18604 (Cook, Trescothick, S Jones, Lees & Cornford) than players born on any other day of the year.
2nd: 24 Nov - 18218 (Barrington, Botham, Sutcliffe, Titmus, Jenkins, Kabir Ali).
The first official County Championship match was in 1890. The first Sheffield Shield match was in 1892. Today is the first time that there has been play in both competitions on the same day.
Of the last 8 times England have batted first in a Test and made 350+ they have now lost 4 by an innings:
v Ind Mumbai 2016
v Ind Chennai 2016
v Aus Perth 2017
v NZ Mount Maunganui 2019
Number of first-class/List A/T20 overs bowled between the ages of 20 and 24:
Stuart Broad 2357
Jimmy Anderson 2032
Ollie Stone 795
Saqib Mahmood 591
Matthew Fisher 549
Mark Wood 412
Jimmy Anderson took 30 first-class wickets at 9.40 in the season. This is the best average in an English season by a bowler taking 30+ wickets since Dick Pougher in 1894 (56 @ 9.35).
Trescothick lbw b Stevens today is the first time a bowler aged 42+ dismissed a batman aged 43+ in the County Championship since J Emburey (43) c Irani b Childs (44) Northamptonshire v Essex at Chelmsford in 1996.
Australia have been involved in 16 Test matches with a win by 10 runs of less or by 1 wicket. Of these they have won 4 and lost 12. Since 1952 they have won 0 and lost 9 of these matches.
Hitting first ball in Test cricket for England for 4 since 1978:
D Gower 1978
A Lamb 1982
A Stewart 1990
D Cork 1995
R Johnson 2003
C Woakes 2013
D Sibley 2019
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10th wicket partnership in the 2nd innings that is higher than team's 1st innings total in a Test:
120 R Duff/W Armstrong Aus (1st inns 112) v Eng Melb 1902
76* B Stokes/J Leach Eng (1st inns 67) v Aus Leeds 2019
And here is an update of most wickets in year of Test debut:
54 (avg 22.62) TM Alderman (Aus) 1981
49 (avg 23.20) CEL Ambrose (WI) 1988
48 (avg 21.02) JJ Bumrah (Ind) 2018
46 (avg 26.23) ST Finn (Eng) 2010
Joe Root is the first player to make the top score of a Test (both teams) 6 times in a calendar year.
5: V Richards 1976, Zaheer Abbas 1982, Mohammad Yousuf 2006, K Sangakkara 2006, G Smith 2008.
Kraigg Brathwaite has now been a milestone (100,200,300 etc) wicket 3 times: T Boult 200, J Anderson 500, S Broad 500.
The batsman who has been milestone wicket most often is Jacques Kallis 5 times: J Anderson 100, A Caddick 100, S Warne 300, Z Khan 300, C Walsh 500
Malan and Bairstow's 237 partnership is now the highest 5th wicket partnership that isn't the highest 5th wicket partnership of the Test in which it was made.
Teams that declared the 3rd innings of a Test after lunch on the final day and won:
New Zealand beat Sri Lanka at Kandy in 1984
India beat England at Lord's 2021
The first eleven batters to come to the crease in the Surrey v Glamorgan match at The Oval all reached 30.
This is the first time this has happened in all first-class cricket.
Highest 10th wkt partnership in the 4th innings to win a first-class match:
78* K Perera/V Fernando SL v SA Durban 2019
77* T Leather/R Oxenham Aus v Madras Madras 1936
Prev highest in Tests:
57* Inzamam-ul-Haq/Mushtaq Ahmed Pak v Aus Karachi 1994
This is England's first Test match at Lord's where the opposing XI has more first-class appearances (93 - Murtagh 72, Stirling 15) at the ground coming into the game than the England XI (88).
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Average target set by captain declaring 10+ times:
RT Ponting 451 (21)
AN Cook 442 (10)
V Kohli 429 (14)
MJ Clarke 428 (13)
Misbah-ul-Haq 420 (11)
AJ Strauss 413 (10)
JE Root 402 (10)
WJ Cronje 397 (12)
CH Lloyd 396 (10)
GC Smith 387 (22)
MA Taylor 386 (12)
AR Border 372 (15)
David Warner has faced 708 balls from Stuart Broad in Test cricket.
Off the first 535 of these he scored 325 runs and was dismissed 5 times - avg 65.00, SR 60.74.
Off the 173 balls since then he has scored 64 runs and been dismissed 9 times - avg 7.11, SR 36.99.
Test match results last 3 years
2016: P 47, Won bat 1st 27, won bat 2nd 13, Drawn 7, <=4 days: 16
2017: P 47, Won bat 1st 26, won bat 2nd 14, Drawn 7, <=4 days: 23
2018: P 48, Won bat 1st 33, won bat 2nd 10, Drawn 5, <=4 days: 27
While he was one of the truly great bowlers, my favourite Dale Steyn stat is his batting record in Boxing Day Tests: He scored 400 runs in 15 innings at 33.33 with 2 x 50 and including his 5 best scores.
Devon Conway is the 12th South African-born player to make a century on his Test debut.
6 of these are for South Africa and 6 for other countries (Eng 4, Aus 1, NZ 1).
Sri Lanka become the 1st team to have 5 bowlers with a part over in the bowling figures in a Test innings.
Fenando 31.1
Rajitha 2.1
Shanaka 28.5
Kumara 21,1
Karunaratne 6.5
Aiden Markram is the first player to make a century in a Test innings where nobody else scored more than 12.
Previous best in any inns:
G Gooch 91* Eng v NZ The Oval 1978 out of 138-3.
Previous best in all out inns:
G White 73 SA v Eng CT 1906.
The first two Wimbledon men's singles champions, Spencer Gore (1877) and Frank Hadow (1878) both played first-class cricket. As far as I know Ash Barty (Brisbane Heat 2015/16) is the first significant cricketer to win a Wimbledon singles title since then.
Sam Curran (271 runs at 45.16 and 10 wkts at 23.00) is the 1st player in Test cricket to have scored 250+ runs at 45+ and taken 10 wickets at <=23.00 in his first 4 Tests.
Taking the first wicket to fall in a Test innings most often:
JM Anderson 100
GD McGrath 97
Kapil Dev 82
RJ Hadlee 71
CA Walsh 70
WPUJC Vaas 68
Wasim Akram 66
CEL Ambrose 63
SM Pollock 62
DW Steyn 62
Taking the match-ending wicket to win a Test most often:
22 S Warne (Aus)
18 M Muralitharan (SL)
18 R Ashwin (Ind)
14 R Herath (SL)
13 Waqar Younis (Pak)
12 G McGrath (Aus)
12 D Steyn (SA)
Most dismissals of one batsmen in a series:
7 J Siedle by C Grimmett SA v A 1935/36
7 T Goddard by B Statham SA v E 1960
7 D Gower by G Lawson Eng v A 1989
7 M Atherton by G McGrath E v A 1997
7 M Ali by N Lyon Eng Aus 2017/18
7 D Warner by S Broad Aus v Eng 2019
Most consecutive Test tosses lost by SA captains:
8 GC Smith 2008-09
6 PW Sherwell 1906-10
6 JE Cheetham 1954-55
6 WJ Cronje 1999-00
6 SM Pollock 2001-02
6 F du Plessis 2019-20
World record:
10 N Hussain 2000-01
There were 4 draws (all rain-affected) out of 39 Tests in 2019. At 10.25% this is the lowest percentage of draws in Tests in a calendar year since 1932 (0 draws in 7 Tests).
Stubbs (Tristan) joins Butt (Harry) - Eng v SA Port Elizabeth 1896 - as the only players to have been dismissed twice on their first day of Test cricket.
England did not lose 10 wickets in a session between 1938 and 2016. They have done this 4 times in their last 34 Tests:
v Ban Mirpur 2016
v NZ Auckland 2018
v Ind Nottingham 2018
v Ire Lord's 2019
Babar Azam has now reached double figures in his last 26 ODI innings. Only two players have a longer such sequence:
29 Javed Miandad (1987-89)
27 Kumar Sangakkara (2003-04)
Dom Sibley's 18* is the lowest score made by an England opener batting though a full first session of the first day of a Test since Chris Smith 12* v Pakistan at Karachi in 1984.
Lahiru Thirimanne is the 1st fielder to take 5 catches off one bowler (Lasith Embuldeniya) in a Test inns.
There have been 8 cases off 4 including 1 by a sub.
Youngest to 12 000 runs:
A Cook 33 yrs, 13 days
A Tendulkar 35 yrs, 176 days.
Tendulkar is youngest to 1000, 2000, 3000, 4000, 5000, 6000
Cook is youngest to 7000, 8000, 9000, 10000,11000, 12000
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The ball that Keshav Maharaj bowled to take South Africa's 2nd Test hat-trick was the 111th potential hat-trick ball bowled by a South African since Geoff Griffin took South Africa's 1st hat-trick v England at Lord's in 1960.
Highest total conceded without an extra in Test cricket:
329 Eng v Ind Chennai 2021
328 Ind v Pak Lahore 1955
252 Eng v SA Durban 1931
(Bowling team listed first)
Jordan Clark's hat-trick for Lancs v Yorks today is the 1st in first-class cricket in which all 3 victims (Root, Williamson, Bairstow) had each made 3000+ Test career runs at the time.
Tests to reach 2 wins:
Afghanistan 3
Australia 3
England 4
Pakistan 9
West Indies 12
South Africa 13
Sri Lanka 20
India 30
Zimbabwe 31
New Zealand 55
Bangladesh 60
Dom Bess is the first England spinner to take the first 5 wickets in a Test innings since Derek Underwood (who took the first 7) v Aus at Adelaide in 1975.
The last England XI with all players born in England was v SL at Galle in 2003. The current team is only the 3rd Test since 1989 with all eleven born in England.
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Darren Stevens County Championship 2021:
650 runs @ 43.33/39 wtks @ 18.58
The only older player who has scored more runs at a higher avg and taken more wickets at a lower avg in a Championship season is Wilfred Rhodes: 1234 runs @ 44.07/52 wkts @ 17.84 in 1925 aged 47.
There are lots of comparisons of the American election to Test cricket.
It seems to me more like one of those horrible ODIs from the early 1990s where the team batting second chasing 150 nudges and nurdles their way to a win in 49.5 overs.
Tom Blundell is the 75th player to open the batting in a Test match having never opened before in first-class cricket and he becomes the first of those to make a century in that match. Previous best: 93 Irfan Pathan Ind v SL Delhi 2005.
100 runs, 3 wickets & 6 catches in a Test:
FE Woolley 133* & 11, 2-1 & 1-36, 6 ct Eng v Aus Syd 1912
JH Kallis 224, dnb & 3-35, 6 ct SA v SL CT 2012
BA Stokes 47 & 72, 0-34 & 3-35, 6 ct, Eng v SA CT 2020
Fawad Alam is the first Pakistani to convert each of his first 3 Test 50s into 100s.
George Headley holds the world record having converted his first 6 50s into 100s.
New Zealand's next scheduled Test match is v Bangladesh at Mount Maunganui on 1 January.
New Zealand conditions are not spin-friendly.
Will Ajaz Patel be dropped after taking 10 wickets in an innings?