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Stats Analysis

Anderson goes past Botham

Stats highlights from the fifth day's play in North Sound, where West Indies held on for a draw against England

Shiva Jayaraman
18-Apr-2015
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384 Wickets James Anderson now has in Tests - the most by an England bowler. Anderson went past Ian Botham when he had Ramdin caught in the slips in West Indies' second innings. Botham had held the record of being the highest-wicket taker in Tests for England since 1985, when he went past Bob Willis' 325 Test wickets. Anderson - who has played 100 Tests to Botham's 102 - is now tenth in the list of highest wicket-taking fast bowlers in Tests.
3 Number of batsmen batting at No. 8 or lower to hit a fourth-innings hundred in Tests before Jason Holder in this match. The last was Matt Prior, who hit an unbeaten 110 against New Zealand at No. 8 in the Auckland Test in 2013. The other two are Daniel Vettori and Ajit Agarkar.
8 Number of hundreds by lower order (No. 8 or lower) West Indies batsmen including Holder's in this match. The last one was also against England: Darren Sammy made 106 at Trent Bridge in 2012.
1930 The last time West Indies batted more than the 129.4 overs they played in the fourth innings of this match to draw or win a Test. West Indies had played 164.3 overs in a timeless Test against the same opposition in Jamaica, where George Headley had hit the first fourth-innings double-hundred in Tests. The last time West Indies batted more than 100 overs in the fourth innings to save a Test was also against England in Antigua, in 2009. Set a target of 503, they batted 128 overs at St. John's.
2 Number of times a West Indies lower-order batsman had top-scored in a Test innings with a century before Holder in this match. The last such instances came against New Zealand in 2008, when Jerome Taylor hit 106 in West Indies' first innings in Dunedin. The other instance was in 1961 when Gerry Alexander hit 108 against Australia at the SCG.
52 Holder's highest score in first-class games before this Test, against New Zealand in the Bridgetown Test in June last year. Holder had scored two fifties from 26 first-class games before this Test.
2008 Last time a West Indies captain hit a fifty-plus score in the fourth innings to help draw a Test before Denesh Ramdin in this match. Ramnaresh Sarwan had hit 128 against Australia at the same venue. This was Ramdin's second fifty as captain in nine Tests. The other one had come earlier this year in Cape Town.
2012 The last time England won an away Test, against India in Kolkata. Since then, England have played ten Tests - losing five - all of which were in the Ashes in Australia - and drawing five.

Shiva Jayaraman is a sub-editor (stats) at ESPNcricinfo.com