Did you understand that Steve Smith is the second quickest to 9000 Test runs – a milestone he accomplished within the Lord’s Test? Or that Ben Stokes holds the document of most sixes ever hit in an innings in an Ashes Test?
TimesofIndia.com right here lists a few of the most thoughts boggling Ashes statistics after the Lord’s Test:
# After 75 years, England (325 & 327) have misplaced a house Test (by 43 runs) regardless of scoring 300-plus in every innings of a Test match – the final occasion being the 1948 Leeds Test towards Australia (458 & 404 for 3) which they misplaced by seven wickets. England had managed 496 and 368 for eight declared in that match.
# Having hit three sixes off successive balls off Keshav Maharaj (S.Africa) at The Oval in 2017, Ben Stokes has now grow to be the primary batter within the historical past of Test Cricket to perform the feat of a hat-trick of sixes twice. During his 155, he was on 82 when he hit three sixes off Cameron Green to achieve his hundred within the simply concluded Lord’s Test.
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# Ben Stokes’ second hundred as captain is his thirteenth in Tests. His tally contains 4 towards Australia. His solely different Test century as captain stays 103 vs South Africa at Manchester in 2022. He has recorded his highest rating vs Australia (155), obliterating the 135 not out at Leeds in 2019.
# Stokes’ excellent innings is the best by a quantity six batter or decrease whereas chasing within the fourth innings in Tests, bettering Adam Gilchrist’s 149 not out vs Pakistan at Hobart in November 1999.
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# Stokes has recorded 118 sixes in 94 Tests, extending his Test document. The subsequent highest is New Zealand’s Brendon McCullum – 107 in 101 Tests.
# During his implausible knock of 155, Stokes hit 9 sixes – a document by an England captain in Tests. His tally is the best by any captain within the fourth innings of a Test match.
# Stokes has set a brand new document for many sixes in an innings in Ashes Tests. He bettered his document of hitting eight sixes throughout his match-winning unbeaten knock of 135 at Leeds in 2019.
# Steven Smith took 99 Tests to grow to be the primary batter to finish 9,000 runs throughout the first 100 Tests of profession. He has grow to be the fourth Australian batter after Ricky Ponting (13378), Allan Border (11174) and Steve Waugh (10927) to finish 9000 runs or extra in Tests.
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# 174 innings taken by Smith are the second quickest by any participant for this milestone after solely the 172 innings taken by Kumar Sangakkara.
# Steven Smith has registered 32 lots of in Tests – the joint-second highest for Australia. Only Ricky Ponting has registered extra lots of (41 in 168 Tests). Steve Waugh posted 32 lots of in 168 Tests.
# Steven Smith has obtained his thirteenth Man of the Match award in Tests – his eighth vs England. He holds the document for getting most MOM awards in The Ashes. The second place is shared by three gamers with 5 awards every – Ian Botham, Ricky Ponting and Shane Warne.
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# After eight years, Smith has been adjudged the MOM in a Lord’s Test – his first being for posting 215 & 58 in 2015.
# Mitchell Starc has bagged 316 wickets at 27.64 runs apiece in 79 Tests, establishing a document for many wickets by a left-arm bowler for Australia in Tests, eclipsing Mitchell Johnson’s tally of 313 at 28.40 in 73 Tests. Starc’s tally contains 13 situations of five-wicket hauls and two situations of ten wickets or extra in a match.
# Ben Duckett (98 & 83) turned the eighth England opener after Herbert Sutcliffe twice), Geoff Boycott (twice), Arthur Shrewsbury, Albert Ward, Len Hutton, Graham Gooch & Mike Atherton to put up 75-plus in every innings of a Test match vs Australia.
# Nathan Lyon has performed 100 successive Tests between August 2013 and June 2023 to grow to be the primary specialist bowler and the sixth participant to perform the feat for a group in Test annals. He has joined Alastair Cook (159), Allan Border (153), Mark Waugh (107), Sunil Gavaskar (106) and Brendon McCullum (101).
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# Usman Khawaja has grow to be the primary batter to finish 300 runs (ave 75.00), together with 100 and two fifties, in 4 innings, at a strike fee of 8.70 within the first two Tests of the Ashes sequence.
# Khawaja, with 841 runs at a mean of 64.69, together with three lots of and 4 fifties, in eight matches, is the highest run-scorer in Tests this yr – 205 runs greater than the subsequent highest – 636 (ave 53.00) in seven Tests by Travis Head.
# Stuart Broad has carried out exceptionally properly this yr, capturing 27 Wickets at a mean of 24.81 in 5 Tests to grow to be the primary speedster to take 25 wickets or extra in Tests. The high 4 wicket-takers in Tests in 2023 are Nathan Lyon(38 in eight Tests), Broad (27 in 5), Ravindra Jadeja (26 in 5) and Ravichandran Ashwin (25 in 4).
(Stats Courtesy: Rajesh Kumar)
Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com