RAWALPINDI (Pakistan): The first Test between England and Pakistan is not going to solely be remembered for the guests’ daring 74-run victory, but in addition for the variety of information set.
Here is a abstract of the information to fall:
* England plundered 506-4 to set a brand new file for many runs on the opening day of a Test, beating Australia’s 494-6 in opposition to South Africa set in Sydney in 1912.
* England’s rating included centuries from Zak Crawley, Ben Duckett, Ollie Pope and Harry Brook — the primary time 4 batters made centuries on day one in every of a Test.
* Pakistan’s Imam-ul-Haq and Abdullah Shafique additionally notched centuries in Pakistan’s reply of 579, making it the one time in 146 years of Test cricket that openers from each groups bought into triple figures within the first innings.
* Haq and Shafique placed on 225 for the opening stand whereas Crawley and Duckett made 233 — the primary time in Tests that two 200-plus opening partnerships had been made in the identical match.
* England’s 657 runs within the first innings was their highest ever in opposition to Pakistan — and their fifth-highest in whole.
* Brook cracked six boundaries in a single over to develop into solely the fourth Test batter to attain the feat, after the West Indian pair of Chris Gayle and Ramnaresh Sarwan, and Sri Lankan Sanath Jayasuriya. Debutant bowler Saud Shakeel was on the receiving finish of Brook’s onslaught.
* England struck 86 fours and 9 sixes of their whole — 398 runs in boundaries alone — which is the fifth highest by any crew in a Test innings and essentially the most ever by England.
* Pakistan leg-spinner Zahid Mahmood earned the doubtful file of conceding essentially the most runs in an innings by a debutant. He gave away 235 runs, beating the 222 runs off Sri Lankan Suraj Randiv in opposition to India in 2010.
Here is a abstract of the information to fall:
* England plundered 506-4 to set a brand new file for many runs on the opening day of a Test, beating Australia’s 494-6 in opposition to South Africa set in Sydney in 1912.
* England’s rating included centuries from Zak Crawley, Ben Duckett, Ollie Pope and Harry Brook — the primary time 4 batters made centuries on day one in every of a Test.
* Pakistan’s Imam-ul-Haq and Abdullah Shafique additionally notched centuries in Pakistan’s reply of 579, making it the one time in 146 years of Test cricket that openers from each groups bought into triple figures within the first innings.
* Haq and Shafique placed on 225 for the opening stand whereas Crawley and Duckett made 233 — the primary time in Tests that two 200-plus opening partnerships had been made in the identical match.
* England’s 657 runs within the first innings was their highest ever in opposition to Pakistan — and their fifth-highest in whole.
* Brook cracked six boundaries in a single over to develop into solely the fourth Test batter to attain the feat, after the West Indian pair of Chris Gayle and Ramnaresh Sarwan, and Sri Lankan Sanath Jayasuriya. Debutant bowler Saud Shakeel was on the receiving finish of Brook’s onslaught.
* England struck 86 fours and 9 sixes of their whole — 398 runs in boundaries alone — which is the fifth highest by any crew in a Test innings and essentially the most ever by England.
* Pakistan leg-spinner Zahid Mahmood earned the doubtful file of conceding essentially the most runs in an innings by a debutant. He gave away 235 runs, beating the 222 runs off Sri Lankan Suraj Randiv in opposition to India in 2010.