Ashes Stat Attack: England first team to have a NRR of over 4 in ten straight Tests | Cricket News – Act Daily News

The present Ashes sequence is nicely and really alive, due to England’s comeback win within the third Test at Leeds. Australia presently lead the sequence 2-1, with 2 Tests nonetheless left to play.
TimesofIndia.com right here takes a take a look at among the most fascinating statistics from the third Test, which England gained by 3 wickets:
# England registered run-rate of 5.08 whereas chasing within the fourth innings – their fifth highest run-rate whereas efficiently chasing 250-plus – their all-time greatest being 5.98 whereas scoring 299 for 5 off 50 overs vs New Zealand at Trent Bridge, Nottingham in 2022.
# England have turn out to be the primary staff to report run-rate of over 4 in ten successive Tests between September 8, 2022 and July 9, 2023.
# Ben Stokes has created cricket historical past by turning into the primary captain to efficiently chase 5 totals of 250-plus within the fourth innings in Tests as below:

# Mahendra Singh Dhoni had completed the feat 4 instances as captain whereas Brian Lara and Ricky Ponting thrice every.
# Ben Stokes enjoys successful % of 70.58 as captain, successful twelve and dropping 5 out of 17 Tests.
# In 5 successive Tests, Travis Head has registered no less than a 50-plus rating – 32 & 90 at Ahmedabad vs India; 163 & 18 at The Oval – each vs India; 50 & 16 at Birmingham; 77 & 7 at Lord’s and 39 & 77 at Leeds – the final three vs England – all in 2023.
# Mitchell Starc has recorded 4 five-wicket hauls within the fourth innings in Tests – two every vs Sri Lanka and England.
# Starc, with 14 situations of five-wicket hauls and two ten-wicket hauls in a match, in 80 Tests, has emulated Alan Davidson’s tally. Both share a report for many such situations by a left-arm bowler for Australia in Tests.
# However, Starc’s tally of 323 wickets at 27.47 in 80 Tests is essentially the most by an Australian left-arm bowler.
# Mitchell Marsh’s 118 is his first century in a dropping trigger in Tests. In eight Ashes Tests, he’s averaging 50.45 – his tally being 555 in 13 innings, together with three centuries. All his Test tons of have been registered in Ashes Tests.
# Marsh’s first hundred away from house is his third in Tests – all vs England – the primary two being 181 at Perth in December 2017 and 101 at Sydney in January 2018.
# Steve Smith has turn out to be the fifteenth Australian participant to look in 100 Tests – the seventy fifth general.
# Smith’s Test common of 58.94 (9137 runs at 58.94, together with 32 tons of and 27 fifties) is the best among the many Australian gamers with 100-plus Tests – the subsequent highest is Ricky Ponting (51.85).
# With Warner’s wicket within the first innings, Stuart Broad turned the primary bowler to take 50 wickets in Tests at Headingley, Leeds. His current tally is 54 wickets at 26.62 runs apiece, together with three five-wicket hauls, in twelve Tests. Fred Trueman had taken 44 wickets at 18.06 in 9 Tests.
# Mark Wood has set a world report with the best strike charge in a Test match (minimal 15 balls). He has managed a SR of 250.00 whereas scoring and general 40 off 16 balls – 24 off 8 balls & 16 not out off 8 balls.
# In the primary three Tests, Ben Stokes hit fourteen sixes, setting a report for many sixes by a captain in a Test sequence, overtaking 13 in three Tests by New Zealand’s Brendon McCullum vs Pakistan in 2014-15 in UAE.
# Moeen Ali has turn out to be the sixteenth England bowler to attain the excellence of finishing 200 wickets. He is simply the third England spinner to race to 200 wickets – the primary two being Derek Underwood – 297 in 86 and Graeme Swann – 255 in 60.
# Ben Stokes has turn out to be the sixteenth England participant to amass 6000-plus runs in Tests. His current run-aggregate is 6021 at a mean of 36.49, together with 13 tons of and 29 fifties, in 95 Tests.
# Pat Cummins (6/91) has produced his greatest bowling efficiency as captain in addition to within the Ashes – his fourth six-wicket haul. He has one every in opposition to South Africa, India, Sri Lanka and England. His career-best stays 6/23 vs Sri Lanka at Brisbane in January 2019.
# Cummins has turn out to be the second Australian captain to register a six-wicket haul vs England in England in Tests – the primary being Richie Benaud – 6 for 70 at Manchester in 1961.
# Of Cummins’ 9 five-wicket hauls in Tests, three resulted in Australian defeats – 6 for 27 vs Australia at Melbourne in December 2018; 6 for 91 vs England at Leeds in July 2023 and 5 for 83 vs South Africa at Johannesburg in March/April 2018.
# For the fourth time, Stuart Broad has captured Warner’s wicket in every innings of a Test match – the earlier three situations being Brisbane in 2013; Birmingham and Manchester 2019.
# David Warner has recorded a mean of 18.41 whereas aggregating 221 in twelve innings (seven Tests), together with a fifty this yr – his worst efficiency in any calendar yr.
# Warner has been dismissed by Stuart Broad 17 instances in 29 Tests – essentially the most instances a bowler has bagged his wicket. Warner stays the one batter dismissed by Broad greater than eleven instances.
# Steven Smith has turn out to be the primary fielder to take 5 catches in a Test innings twice – vs South Africa at Cape Town in 2018 & vs England at Leeds in 2023.
# Mark Wood has acquired his third Man of the Match award for producing an all-round efficiency – 40 (24 & 16 not out) & 7 for 100 (5/34 + 2/66). His first two awards have been vs West Indies at Gros Islet in 2019 and vs South Africa at Johannesburg in 2020.
# Harry Brook has recorded his highest rating within the Ashes, outstripping the 50 at Lord’s within the second Test. Brook’s match-winning knock is his first fifty within the fourth innings.
# Brook is averaging 71.00 whereas accumulating 710 runs in wins in eleven innings, together with three tons of and 4 fifties.
# Joe Root has been dismissed by Pat Cummins eleven instances in seventeen Tests – most instances a bowler has captured his wicket. The tally contains three successive dismissals – second innings of the Lord’s Test and in every innings of the Leeds Test. For the primary time, Root acquired out to him in each innings of a Test.
# Two different bowlers, other than Cummins, have dismissed Root in three successive innings – West Indian Alzarri Joseph in 2018-19 and Australia’s Scott Boland in 2021-22.
# Harry Brook took 1058 balls to race to 1000 runs – the quickest by any batter in Tests, obliterating the 1140 taken by Colin de Grandhomme.
(Stats Courtesy: Rajesh Kumar)