India are the 1st team to lose all 20 wickets in a Test to catches.
Andrew Samson
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Andrew Samson
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Former cricket statistician. Author of The Moon is Toast.
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Joined March 2013
- England are the first team to take 10 wickets with seam in one innings and 10 wickets with spin in the other innings of a Test.
- Youngest to reach 10 000 Test runs: AN Cook 11 479 days JE Root 11 480 days They were both 31 yrs, 157 days old but Cook had one less leap day.
- Women's Test cricket is quite good. Can we have more please?
- Cook: Test career M 161 Inns 291 NO 16 Runs 12472 HS 294 Avg 45.35 100 33 50 57 Mins 37308 Balls 26562 Dots 20038 Ones 3803 Twos 980 Threes 281 Fours 1445 (incl 3 all-run) Fives 4 Sixes 11
- Yesterday Moeen Ali became the first player to have scored 100+ career runs in all 6 batting positions from 4 to 9 in Test cricket.
- 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.
- India are the first team to lose 6 wickets without scoring a run in a Test innings.
- 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.
- England's averages for the series v India to date: J Root: 386 runs at 128.66. The rest: 513 runs at 13.86.
- David Warner is the first opener to be dismissed for a pair twice in Ashes Tests.
- 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.
- Sam Curran is the first player to reach each of his first 3 Test fifties with a six.
- 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
