1673 – The highest match aggregate involving India and England and the second-highest match aggregate in England since 1723 runs in the 1948 Ashes, also at Leeds.
1 – For the first time in 35 years (fourth overall), all four innings of a Test bore 300-plus totals in England. The last instance also involved India and England in Manchester, 1990, finishing with Sachin Tendulkar’s maiden international hundred.
350 – The target runs chased down by England on the final day are the second highest on the final day of a Test since Australia’s 404 on Day 5 at Leeds in 1948.
2 – England recorded their second-highest Test run chase (371), behind the successful 378 pursuit against India in 2022.
3 – India suffered only their third defeat in 85 attempts defending a 300-plus target, a first since the seven-wicket loss in their previous Test in England in 2022 at Edgbaston.
7 – A Test in England tallied seven centuries for only the second time in history since the Nottingham Test of the 1938 Ashes series.
2114 – Ben Duckett and Zak Crawley became only the 11th Test opening pair to record 2000 partnership runs in the 21st century.
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5.04 – Duckett and Crawley are the fastest-scoring Test opening pair in the 21st century, topping all 77 pairs who have at least recorded 500 runs.
188 – Duckett and Crawley registered the highest fourth-innings opening partnership in Tests in 30 years since Michael Slater-Mark Taylor’s 208 for Australia vs England in January 1995.
149 – Duckett recorded the highest score by an England opener in the fourth innings this century. His 87.64 SR is also the highest by an English opener in a 4th innings hundred.
678 – Joe Root surpassed Alastair Cook (649) as England’s highest run-getter in the fourth innings in Tests they have won.
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6.28 – No pace bowler has conceded more runs (220 in 35 overs) at a worse economy in a match than Prasidh Krishna in the Leeds Test.
1– This is also the first instance where a team scored five centuries and ended up losing the Test.
