A rare instance of three visiting centurions

2009 The previous time when three batsmen from a visiting team scored centuries in the same innings in India, before England's innings at Rajkot. Tillakaratne Dilshan, Mahela Jayawardene and Prasanna Jayawardene did it at Motera in 2008-09. This is the fourth instance since 1990 in which three batsmen of a visiting team have scored centuries in an innings in India. It is also the second time the England team has done so in the subcontinent. Their first was also in India, in Kanpur in 1961-62, when Geoff Pullar, Ken Barrington and Ted Dexter struck centuries while following on.

2011 The previous instance when three England players scored centuries in the same innings - against Sri Lanka in Cardiff. There were four such occasions for England between 2009 and 2011 but none in the last five years.

3 Instances in which each of the first six partnerships in the innings of a visiting team in India added 25 or more runs. England are third on the list. The first two were in 2008 - South Africa in Chennai and Australia in Delhi.

0, 0, 0 Ben Stokes' scores in his first three Test innings against India - a duck at Trent Bridge and a pair at Lord's in 2014. He managed a century in this innings, the fourth of his Test career. His four centuries have come in four different continents - Africa, Asia, Europe and Australia.

139 Runs scored by England in the first session of second day, in 30 overs for the loss of two wickets. The most they scored in a session on the first day was 107 in 31.3 overs, between lunch and tea. They hit 19 fours and two sixes in the first session on second day compared to 33 fours and two sixes in 93 overs on the first day.

1985 The last time England made higher a total in India than the 537 in this innings. They had scored 652 for 7 in Chennai during the 1984-85 tour. Their first-innings total in Rajkot is their third-highest in India. England were also the last visiting team to score 500-plus in India - 523 in Kolkata in 2012-13.

8 Number of times England's sixth wicket has added 50 or more runs in the last ten innings, stretching back to the Oval Test against Pakistan. They only missed doing so in Dhaka, where they lost to Bangladesh. Overall, the 99-run stand between Stokes and Jonny Bairstow was the 13th fifty-plus stand for the sixth wicket for England this year which is more than twice the number of partnerships any other wicket.

3.52 Economy of India's spinners in this innings - their fourth-worst at home while bowling 75 or more overs. Amit Mishra was the most expensive with an economy rate of 4.17, while R Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja conceded runs at 3.63 and 2.86 respectively.

83.50 Ashwin's average in this innings, 2 for 167, his second-worst in India in innings when he has taken at least a wicket. His worst is 111, also against England, in Ahmedabad in 2012-13. The 167 runs he conceded are his second-most in an innings at home. Jadeja gave away 86 runs, which is the most by him in an innings at home.