INDIA TOUR OF ENGLAND, 2025
Jamie Smith raises his bat after reaching his 100 © Getty
All the statistical highlights from Day 3 of the ongoing second Test between England and India at Edgbatson:
An extraordinary innings
407 – England’s 407 is the lowest ever all-out innings total to feature two 150-plus scores (184* by Jamie Smith and 158 by Harry Brook). The previous record was 414 by West Indies against Australia at Georgetown in 1968, featuring 152 by Sir Garfield Sobers and 150 by Rohan Kanhai. Interestingly, India’s first innings total of 471 in the first Test at Headingley was the lowest to contain three individual hundreds.
6 ducks by England is their most in a Test innings, surpassing five each against West Indies at Bridgetown in 1954 and later at Headingley in 1976; against Australia at The Oval in 1956, and against New Zealand in Auckland in 2018.
Overall, six ducks is the joint-most in a Test innings ever, England’s being the ninth such occurrence; the previous had come during the shortest ever completed Testin Cape Town last year.
10,002 – Brydon Carse accounted for the 10,000th duck in Test cricket history, when he was trapped leg-before by Mohammed Siraj. Siraj soon made it 10,002, dismissing Josh Tongue and Shoaib Bashir in quick succession.
2 – It was just the second time in Tests that a team went past 400 in an innings despite five (or more) ducks. South Africa hold the record, having posted 429 against Bangladesh in Centurion in 2008.
5instances of a Test innings featuring at least three ducks and two 150-plus scores in a Test innings. Of those, the one at Edgbaston is the only one featuring them all in the top-seven in the batting order.
Minimum three ducks & two 150-plus scores in a Test innings
Ducks 150-plus scores Team Opponent Venue, Year 3 2 England Australia Melbourne, 1912 4 2 England Pakistan Lord’s, 2010 3 2 South Africa Australia Perth 2012 3 2 Afghanistan Zimbabwe Bulawayo, 2024 6 2 England India Edgbaston, 2025
2- This was just the second time England went past 400 in a Test innings after losing their first five wickets for under 100. They had gone from 47 for 5 to 446 all-out against Pakistan at Lord’s in 2010.
Brook and Smith sizzle amidst the chaos
184* scored by Jamie Smith is the highest score by an England wicketkeeper in Tests, going past Alec Stewart’s 173 at Auckland in 1997. It is also the second-highest score for any keeper in Tests against India, behind Andy Flower’s 232* in Nagpur in 2000 (which is the overall record for the highest score by a gloveman in the format). Smith’s 184 is now the second 150-plus score by a ‘keeper in Tests between India and England, after Budhi Kunderan’s 192 in Chennai in 1964.
Smith now also has the highest score by an England batter from No.7 or lower, going past a 128-year old record set by KS Ranjitsinhji, who had scored 175 against Australia in Sydney in 1897.
Highest Test scores by an England wicketkeeper
Runs Player Opponent Venue, Year 184* Jamie Smith India Edgbaston, 2025 173 Alec Stewart New Zealand Auckland, 1997 167* Jonny Bairstow Sri Lanka Lord’s, 2016 164 Alec Stewart South Africa Old Trafford, 1998 152 Jos Buttler Pakistan Southampton, 2020 150* Jonny Bairstow South Africa Cape Town, 2016
80 balls taken by Jamie Smith to get to his hundred, the joint third-fastest for England. He also became the first England batter to score 100-plus runs in a session before Lunch, having not been unbeaten overnight (where data available).
Fastest Test hundreds for England (by balls taken)
Balls taken Player Opponent Venue, Year 76 Gilbert Jessop Australia The Oval, 1902 77 Jonny Bairstow New Zealand Trent Bridge, 2022 80 Harry Brook Pakistan Rawalpindi, 2022 80 Jamie Smith India Edgbaston, 2025 85 Ben Stokes New Zealand Lord’s, 2015
44 innings taken by Harry Brook to get to his ninth Test hundred; only Denis Compton (37) and Herbert Sutcliffe (43) got there in fewer innings for England.
55.56% – Brook has now converted five of his nine Test hundreds into a 150-plus score. His conversion rate of 100s to 150-plus scores is only matched by Ted Dexter and bettered by Dennis Amiss (72.73% – 8 out of 11) among England batters with a minimum of nine Test tons.
The monumental stand
303 runs added by Brook and Smith was just the third 300-plus stand for the sixth wicket or lower for England in Tests after 399 between Ben Stokes and Jonny Bairstow (vs SA, Cape Town, 2016) and 332 between Jonathan Trott and Stuart Broad (vs PAK, Lord’s, 2010).
It also happened to be England’s third 300-plus partnership for any wicket against India. Their previous best for the sixth wicket or lower against India was 198 between Joe Root and James Anderson at Trent Bridge in 2014, which remains the record 10th wicket stand in Test cricket.
300-plus stands in ENG vs IND Tests (for any wicket)
Runs Pair Wicket Venue, Year 350 Ian Bell, Kevin Pietersen (ENG) 3rd The Oval, 2011 316 GR Viswanath, Yashpal Sharma (IND) 3rd Chennai, 1982 314 Rahul Dravid, Gautam Gambhir (IND) 2nd Mohali, 2008 308 Graham Gooch, Allan Lamb (ENG) 3rd Lord’s, 1990 303 Harry Brook, Jamie Smith (ENG) 6th Edgbaston, 2025
3 instances of a Test innings featuring a 300-plus stand for sixth wicket (or lower) after the team was five down for less than 100, England’s 84 for 5 being the lowest such score. The previous two came in historic Tests: in Melbourne in 1937, when Don Bradman added 346 with Jack Fingleton from 97 for 5 after having famously reversed Australia’s batting order; and at Wellington in 2014, when Brendon McCullum added 352, from 94 for 5, with BJ Watling en-route his 302 – New Zealand’s only triple ton in Tests – in an epic match-saving effort.
3 With Shubman Gill and Ravindra Jadeja having added 203 in India’s first innings earlier, this made it for just the third instance of a Test match featuring two 200-plus for the sixth wicket or lower, after West Indies vs Australia at Bridgetown, Barbados in 1955 and India vs Sri Lanka in Ahmedabad in 2009.
407 by England is the lowest innings total featuring a 300-plus run partnership; the previous record was West Indies’ 431 against Australia at Kingston, featuring a 322-run fifth wicket stand between Brian Lara and Jimmy Adams.
Jaiswal’s extends his imperious run
40 innings taken by Yashasvi Jaiswal made him the joint-fastest to 2000 Test runs for India, alongside Rahul Dravid and Virender Sehwag. Vijay Hazare and Gautam Gambhir are second in this list (43 innings), followed by Sunil Gavaskar and Sachin Tendulkar (44 innings).
Aged 23 years and 188 days, Jaiswal is also the second youngest Indian batter to the milestone after Tendulkar (20y 330d). Overall, he is the second youngest to complete 2000 Test runs as an opener, after Graeme Smith (23y 58d).
4 instancesof India’s opening bowlers sharing all 10 wickets between them in a Test innings, second in away Tests. Before Mohammed Siraj (6/60) and Akash Deep (4/88), all the three previous instances featured Kapil Dev: with Karsan Ghavri against Australia in Sydney in 1981, with Madan Lal against England at Wankhede in 1981 and with Balwinder Sandhu against West Indies in Ahmedabad in 1983.
6/70 by Siraj are the fourth best returns for an India bowler in Tests in England, after Ishant Sharma’s 7/74 (Lord’s, 2014), L Amar Singh’s 6/35 (Lord’s, 1936) and Chetan Sharma’s 6/58 (Edgbaston, 1986).
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