Sampath Bandarupalli

4 days ago | espn.in | Sampath Bandarupalli

371 The target England chased down at Headingley. It is the second-highest fourth-innings chase for England in Test cricket and the second-biggest by any team against India. The highest was when England chased down 378 against India in 2022 at Edgbaston. 350 The runs England needed to score at the start of the fifth day's play. Only one team has successfully chased a higher total on the last scheduled day of a Test match - 404 by Australia against England on day five of the 1948 Headingley Test.

5 days ago | espn.in | Sampath Bandarupalli

2 Wicketkeepers with centuries in both innings of a Test match. Rishabh Pant became the second with 118 against England on the fourth day of the Headingley Test, after scoring 134 in the first innings. Former Zimbabwe wicketkeeper Any Flower was the first - he scored 141 and 199* against South Africa at Harare in 2001. Pant became the first India batter to score hundreds in both innings of a Test in England. He is only the ninth visiting batter to do so and the first since Steven Smith in 2019.

6 days ago | espn.in | Sampath Bandarupalli

12 of Jasprit Bumrah's 14 five-wicket hauls in Test cricket have come away from home, the joint highest by any India bowler, alongside Kapil Dev. 3 Five-wicket hauls for Bumrah in Tests in England, the most by an Indian bowler. Bumrah has 42 Test wickets in England, only behind Ishant Sharma (51) and Kapil (43) among Indian bowlers. 4 Five-wicket hauls by Indian bowlers in Tests since the end of the 2024-25 home season, all by Bumrah. He took three five-fors in Australia.

1 week ago | espn.in | Sampath Bandarupalli

7 Hundreds for Rishabh Pant in Test cricket. He now holds the record for most Test hundreds as a wicketkeeper for India, going past MS Dhoni's tally of six. 3 Test hundreds for Pant in England. No other visiting wicketkeeper has more than one hundred in England. England's Les Ames in the West Indies and Zimbabwe's Andy Flower in India are the only visiting wicketkeepers to score three Test hundreds in a country apart from Pant.

1 week ago | espn.in | Sampath Bandarupalli

359 for 3 India's total at Headingley is their highest on the opening day of a Test in England. Their previous highest was 338 for 7 at Edgbaston in 2022. India's 359 is also the highest opening-day total for a visiting team in England since South Africa made 362 for 4 at The Oval in 2003. 5 Indians with a century on captaincy debut in men's Tests, including Shubman Gill.