Headingley Test: India set unwanted records against England

India set an unwanted records with a historic defeat at Headingley, despite five of its batters scoring centuries.

India became the first team in Test history to lose a match in which five of its batters scored centuries. Previously, the only instance of a team losing with four centuries was Australia against England in the 1928 Melbourne Test.

– 371 –

 This was the target England successfully chased at Headingley. It was their second-highest fourth-innings chase in Test cricket and the second-largest ever achieved by any team against India. The highest remains England’s 378-run chase against India in 2022 at Edgbaston.

– 350 runs –

 This was the number of runs England needed at the start of the fifth day. Only once before has a team chased a higher total on the final scheduled day of a Test – Australia’s 404-run chase against England in the 1948 Headingley Test.

– 835 runs –

 The total runs India amassed during the Headingley Test, the fourth-highest ever by a team ending up on the losing side. India's previous highest total in a losing cause was 759, against Australia in 2014 at Adelaide.

– 3 –

 The number of Test matches in which all four innings have featured 350-plus scores. The previous two occurred during Ashes series – in 1921 at Adelaide and in 1948 at Headingley.

– 1,673 –

 The total number of runs scored by England and India in the Headingley Test – the highest combined aggregate in any Test between the two sides. The previous record was 1,614 runs in the 1990 Manchester Test, which ended in a draw. The 1,673-run tally also ranks as the fifth-highest aggregate in a Test match that did not end in a draw.

– 5 –

 The number of successful 300-plus fourth-innings chases at Headingley. England’s 371-run effort against India ranks second at this ground. The only other venue with more than two such chases is Kingsmead in Durban, with three.

– 149 –

 Ben Duckett’s score, which is now the highest ever made in the fourth innings of a Test match against India, surpassing Joe Root’s 142* at Edgbaston in 2022.

Duckett’s 149 is also the second-highest fourth-innings score by an England opener, behind Mike Atherton’s 185* against South Africa in 1995.

– 188 –

  The opening partnership between Duckett and Zak Crawley, which is the fifth-highest for any opening pair in the fourth innings of a Test. For England, it ranks second, behind the 203-run stand between Atherton and Graham Gooch against Australia in 1991.