England broke a lot of records on the way to their historic win against England India In the rescheduled Fifth Test at Edgbaston, while for the visitors, one of the most questionable records, 416 runs in the first innings were lost.
India suffered a seven-wicket loss at Edgbaston, with the hosts scoring 378 for just three wickets thanks to scintillating unbeaten centuries from former captain Joe Root and Jonny Bairstow.
416 is the second-highest first innings total in India’s Test history, resulting in a loss – the most being 424 runs – against Australia at Bangalore in 1998.
India were in command of a 132-run lead at the end of England’s first innings and it was hard to imagine that they would lose from that position as they missed a Test after taking a more than 100-run lead while batting first. was lost. According to the ICC, out of the last 94 Tests when they had a lead of over 100, India won 58, drew 36 and didn’t lose a single one.
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While India had an inauspicious start on the opening day when they were reduced to 98/5, the Tourists managed to score 338 – their highest score on the opening day of a Test match in England – at stumps, with Rishabh Pant and Ravindra Jadeja’s 222-run partnership for the sixth wicket played a key role in their fight.
India recovered well, scoring 416 runs in the first innings, thanks to centuries from Pant (146) and Jadeja (104). Pant’s century came off just 89 balls, which was the fastest by an Indian wicketkeeper in Test cricket to surpass Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s 93-ball century against Pakistan at Faisalabad in 2006.
Little did India, however, realize that England had the means to bounce back from the first innings deficit of 132 runs. It was a remarkable turnaround that saw England break multiple Test match records of their own.
England led the five-match series 2–2 at Edgbaston to lead 378, their most successful chase in Test history, after losing 359 against Australia at Leeds in the 2019 Ashes. According to the ICC, no team had chased down a target of more than 350 against India in Tests before that, before the 339 scored by Australia at the WACA in Perth in 1977.
It is the eighth highest chase in Test cricket and the second highest on English soil, following Australia’s 404 under Sir Don Bradman’s lead against England at Leeds in the 1948 Ashes.
England are the first team in the history of Test cricket to successfully chase down 250-plus goals in four consecutive attempts – three in the Black Caps’ recent 3-0 whitewash against New Zealand and the rescheduled Test vs India.
Before chasing 378 against India, England chased 296 at Headingley, 299 at Trent Bridge and 277 against the Kiwis at Lord’s. The next best 250-plus chasing streak is three games, by Australia on two separate occasions – twice against South Africa and Bangladesh in 2006, and against England, South Africa and the West Indies between 1948 and 1951.
England’s current streak also means that four of the top 14 successful goals in their 145-year Test history have come in the last 30 days. In these four chases, he has scored 1,252 runs for the loss of 16 fourth innings wickets, averaging 78.25 runs per wicket in what is usually the toughest innings to bat in Tests.
While there are many factors behind England’s dream run, Joe Root and Jonny Bairstow are the players most responsible for the home team’s resurgence after two years of loss.
Both scored unbeaten centuries (142) and Bairstow (114) in the historic Edgbaston run chase. Bairstow had scored 136 in the chase against New Zealand in Nottingham last month, before Root had scored an unbeaten 115 against New Zealand at Lord’s in the same series. This is the first time in Test cricket that a team has scored four centuries in the fourth innings in a calendar year.
Root and Bairstow put on an unbeaten 269-run partnership against India, which according to the ICC is England’s highest partnership in a successful chase in Test cricket.
All England batsmen combined have scored 1,546 runs in the fourth innings in Tests in 2022, the highest total in a chase by a team in a calendar year. The previous record was of 1,462 runs by Pakistan batsmen in 2010.
With two and three Test series this year – against South Africa and Pakistan – England’s batsmen can chase 2,000-plus runs by 2022.
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Root (1,744 runs) and Bairstow (1,218) are also the top two run-scorers in the current ICC cycle. World Test Championship. Bairstow’s last five innings have helped him score 589 runs, which is 10.88 percent of all Test runs (5,415) in his 10-year and 87-Test career. He has scored six centuries in eight Tests this year – the same number of centuries he has scored in the last 79 Tests of his career.
Bairstow is the fourth England batsman after Root in 2021, Michael Vaughan in 2002 and Dennis Compton in 1947 to score six centuries in a year. The 32-year-old scored a century in both innings at Edgbaston, becoming England’s first batsman thereafter. Andrew Strauss scored a double century in a Test against India at Chennai in 2008.
With 994 runs at an average of 76.46, Bairstow is also the highest run-scorer in Test cricket in 2022 with the second-most number of sixes (18) behind skipper Ben Stokes (19).
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