Stats - Gill level with Gavaskar, Bradman; Jadeja in elite list
Also, some numbers on India's left-hand batting dominance and KL Rahul's role
Sampath Bandarupalli
27-Jul-2025 • 2 hrs ago
Several records were broken and many milestones were reached on the fifth day of the Old Trafford Test, as India made a great escape to level the series. Here are the statistical highlights from the day:
2 Number of Tests ending in a draw involving England since Brendon McCullum became their head coach. This was the 40th Test under McCullum. The other one was against Australia in 2023, also at Old Trafford.
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7 Number of 350-plus totals for India in the series, the most for any team in a Test series. The previous best was six by Australia, who have done it three times in the Ashes in 1920-21, 1948, and 1989.
This series is also the first instance of India crossing 300 on seven occasions in a series. Eight is the most by any team.
0 Instances of a team winning a Test match at Old Trafford after choosing to bowl first. Teams electing to bowl first here have lost three of the 12, while nine ended in a draw.
The draw continued India's winless run at Old Trafford, where they have played ten matches, the most by them at a venue without a Test win.
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4 Number of hundreds for Shubman Gill in the series, the joint-most by an Indian batter in a series. Sunil Gavaskar had four hundreds against West Indies in 1971 and 1978-79, while Virat Kohli also scored four in the 2014-15 tour of Australia.
Gill is also only the third captain with four hundreds in a Test series, following Don Bradman, who scored four against India in 1947-48 and Gavaskar against West Indies in 1978-79.
Gill's four hundreds are also the joint-most in a series in England. Earlier, Bradman (in 1930) was the only visiting batter with four hundreds in a series in England.
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722 Runs scored by Gill in this series. Only Gavaskar has scored more runs in a Test series for India than Gill - 774 in 1970 and 732 in 1978-79; both against West Indies.
188 The partnership between Gill and KL Rahul for the third wicket is by far the highest third-wicket stand in Tests after being two-down for no runs on the board. The previous highest was 105 by Mohinder Amarnath and Gundappa Viswanath against Australia at Melbourne in 1977.
Gill and Rahul batted 417 balls together during their partnership. It is the longest Test partnership for India in England since 1998.
9 Fifty-plus scores for Ravindra Jadeja in Tests in England, all while batting at No. 6 or lower, the joint-most by a visiting player, alongside Garfield Sobers (9). Jadeja and Sobers are the only visiting players with 1000-plus runs at No. 6 or lower in England.
Jadeja also has 34 wickets in England to go along with his 1000-plus run tally. Only two visiting players have taken more wickets while scoring 1000-plus runs in a country - Wilfred Rhodes (1032 runs and 42 wickets) in Australia and Sobers (1820 runs and 62 wickets) in England.
511 Runs aggregated by Rahul in this series so far. He is the first visiting opener to score 500-plus runs in a Test series since Graeme Smith's 714 in 2003. Only Gavaskar, among Indian openers (542 in 1979), has scored more than Rahul in a series in England.
Four Indian batters aggregated 400-plus runs in this series - Gill, Rahul, Rishabh Pant and Jadeja, the first such instance for them in a series. The previous series in which four (or more) batters scored 400-plus runs for a team was in 1993, when six Australians did so in the Ashes.
4 Number of instances of India knocking off a 300-plus first-innings deficit to draw a Test match. The highest is 368 against England - also at Old Trafford in 1936 - while they overhauled 334 against Sri Lanka at Ahmedabad and 314 against New Zealand at Napier, both in 2009.
3 Centurions in the second innings for India at Old Trafford - Gill, Jadeja and Washington. It is the first instance of three batters scoring hundreds for India in their second innings of a Test match.
Washington Sundar celebrates his maiden Test century•AFP/Getty Images
5 Left-hand Indian batters with a fifty - Yashasvi Jaiswal, B Sai Sudharsan and Pant in the first innings, while Washington Sundar and Jadeja in the second innings.
Only once before have five LHBs scored fifty-plus scores for a team in a Test. Seven left-hand batters got fifties at Old Trafford, including Ben Duckett and Ben Stokes, the most for a Test match.
A total of 12 batters got past fifty across both teams: the joint-second-most, behind the 13 by South Africa and England at Durban in 1939. Seven of those were by Indian batters, the joint-most for them in a Test match. Only Pakistan (8 vs India in 2006 at Karachi) had more players with fifty-plus scores in a Test match.
5 Number of sessions where India batted 20-plus overs without losing a wicket at Old Trafford. Since the start of 2014, only one team has had as many wicketless sessions in a Test match - 6 by Pakistan against Australia in 2022 at Rawalpindi. No other team have been wicketless in more than three sessions in a Test match in this period.
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12 Batters who have scored a century in this series. Australia's tour of West Indies in 1955 is the only other series to feature 12 centurions.
A total of 18 centuries have been scored in this series so far, the third-most in a Test series. Eleven have come from India, the joint-most for them in a Test series, alongside the 1978-79 home series against West Indies.
Sampath Bandarupalli is a statistician at ESPNcricinfo