England vs India, 3rd Test: Statistical highlights

Aug 29, 2021

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0.222 India’s win-loss ratio (8 wins, 36 defeats) on English soil, the worst for any team to have played 5 Test matches.

0.612 India’s win-loss ratio (30 wins, 49 defeats) against England, their worst against any country.

0.667 India’s win-loss ratio (2 wins, 3 defeats) at Headingley, their second best at any English venue. Only at Trent Bridge do they have a better ratio (1).

1 instance of India losing the third Test match of a Test series with Virat Kohli as captain.

8 hundreds for Joe Root against India, the most for England and the joint most overall. Root went past Alastair Cook’s 7. Garry Sobers, Viv Richards, Ricky Ponting, and Steven Smith also have 8 hundreds each.

18 fifty-plus scores for Root against India, the most for England against India. Ponting (20), Javed Miandad (19), and Clive Lloyd (19) are the only ones with more.

23 hundreds for Root, the joint second most for England. Root is tied with Kevin Pietersen. However, Cook (33) is some distance ahead.

24 instances of four England’s 1-4 all scoring fifies in the same Test innings. Rory Burns scored 61, Haseeb Hameed 68, Dawid Malan 70, and Root 121. The last happened in 2012/13, and on home soil, in 2005.

27 wins for Root as captain, the most for any England captain. Root went past Michael Vaughan’s record of 26, and currently ranks joint eighth.

49 wins for England against India, their fourth most against any country. England have more wins against Australia (110), South Africa (64), and West Indies (51).

78 India’s ninth lowest score of all time and third lowest on English soil (after 42 at Lord’s in 1974 and 58 at Old Trafford in 1952).

165 matches for James Anderson, the fifth most in history, after Sachin Tendulkar (200), Ponting (168), Steve Waugh (168), and Jacques Kallis (166).