Despite five centurions, India’s first side to lose a Test

Despite their batters scoring five hundreds in the Headingley Test against England, India became the first side in Test cricket history to lose a Test.

The statistics are as follows:

1 With five separate batters recording hundreds, India became the first team to lose a Test match. Australia’s 1928 match against England was the only time a team with four hundreds had ever lost a Test match.

371 At Headingley, England pursued the aim. In Test cricket, it is the second-largest chase by any side against India and the second-highest for England in the fourth innings. The greatest was in 2022 at Edgbaston, when England chased down 378 against India.

350 The number of runs England needed to score when play began on the fifth day. Australia’s 404 against England on day five of the 1948 Headingley Test is the only team to have successfully chased a higher total on the last day of a Test match.

India scored 835 runs in the Headingley Test, which is the fourth-highest total for a losing team. In a losing match, India’s highest total to yet was 759 against Australia in Adelaide in 2014.

Three Test matches with four-inning totals of 350 or more. The two earlier examples occurred in the Ashes, in Headingley in 1948 and Adelaide in 1921.

At Headingley, England and India combined for 1673 runs, the most in any Test match between the two teams. The previous record, which ended in a draw, was 1614 runs at Manchester in 1990. In addition, the 1673 runs rank fifth overall in any Test match that does not conclude in a draw.

At Headingley, there were five successful chases of 300 or more in the fourth innings. The second-highest chase at this ground was England’s 371-run effort against India. Kingsmead in Durban has three 300-plus chases, making it the only other site with more than two.

149 Ben Duckett’s score is the highest by any batter in the fourth innings of a Test match against India, bettering Joe Root’s 142* at Edgbaston in 2022.

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

188 The opening partnership between Duckett and Zak Crawley is the fifth highest by any opening pair in the fourth innings of a Test match. It is also the second-highest for England, behind the 203 by Atherton and Graham Gooch against Australia in 1991.

12 Batters to have ended on the losing side despite scoring hundreds in both innings of a Test match. Brendan Taylor, against Bangladesh in 2018, was the final member of the preceding eleven.