Stats Analysis

England lose 20 wickets in 96.1 overs

All the stats and landmarks from a memorable victory for South Africa in the second Test against England at Trent Bridge

Bharath Seervi
England batted just 96.1 overs in the entire Test  ESPNcricinfo Ltd

2009 Last time England faced fewer than 100 overs in a home Test, batting in both innings - against Australia at Headingley. They lost 20 wickets in this match for just 96.1 overs - 51.5 in first innings and 44.2 in the second. Overall, this is only the seventh such instance for England at home, only the third time in last 30 years, and only the fifth time since World War II.

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340 Margin of victory for South Africa - their fourth-biggest in Tests in terms of runs, and their second-biggest outside South Africa. They won by 356 runs at Lord's in 1994, which is their biggest away win. This is England's second biggest home defeat in last 20 years.

7 Consecutive Tests without a defeat for England at Trent Bridge. Prior to this match, the last time they were beaten at the venue was against India in 2007. Since then they have won six and drawn one. South Africa had lost both of previous two Tests at Trent Bridge since readmission - in 1998 and 2003.

3 Away Tests won by South Africa in which none of their bowlers picked up more than 3 wickets in an innings. The other two, before this win, were Kandy 2000 and Dhaka 2003. In last 10 years, their only such win, home or away, came against Sri Lanka in Cape Town in 2011-12.

11 Runs for which England lost their last five wickets. They were all out for 133 after being 122 for 5, in a span of five overs. In the first innings, they lost their last four wickets for six runs.

1934 Last time England's last three wickets combined for fewer runs than in this match. Here, they added a total of 13 runs across both innings, which is their third-lowest in any Test in which they've completed two innings.

2013 Last time Vernon Philander earned a Man of the Match award in Tests, against New Zealand in Cape Town. He picked up five such awards in his first 13 Tests, but this was his first in his last 32 games.

10 Wickets for Keshav Maharaj in this series - the most among all South Africa bowlers. Only Moeen Ali (14) has more wickets than Maharaj while James Anderson has also claimed 10 wickets. After going wicketless in the first innings of the first Test, Maharaj has taken 4 for 85, 3 for 21 and 3 for 42 in the next three innings.

1997 Last time England's top three accumulated fewer runs in a home Test, batting in both innings, than the 79 runs in this game. They scored 73 runs against Australia at The Oval in 1997.

21.93 Alastair Cook's average at Trent Bridge, his lowest among all home venues. In 10 Tests and 17 innings, he has scored only 351 runs with a highest score of 50. He has averaged 23 as an opener at the venue, which is the lowest for any opener with 15-plus innings at a venue.

12 Jonny Bairstow's average against Keshav Maharaj in this series. He has scored 36 runs off 68 balls and has got out three times. Against all other bowlers has made 86 runs off 143 balls, for once out.

Bharath Seervi is stats sub-editor at ESPNcricinfo. @SeerviBharath

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