England's historic Edgbaston win in numbers

Fruitful fourth innings pursues

378 pursued somewhere near England is the most elevated ever by them in the fourth innings of a Test match, outperforming the 359 they scored against Australia at Headingley in 2019. In all Tests in English soil just once has a higher objective been effectively finished - 404 by Don Bradman's Australia against the home side in Ashes 1948.

4 England have now effectively pursued at least 250 out of four straight games following pursues of 277 at Lord's, 299 at Trent Bridge and 296 at Headingly. No opposite side has done it over two times. Britain likewise become the principal side to accomplish the accomplishment multiple times in a season bettering Australia's three effective 250+ pursues in the 2005/06 season. Of England's best eight run pursues, three have come in their last three Tests.

1 There was only one past case of a group effectively pursuing down a 300+ fourth innings focus against India before England's success in Birmingham. Australia pursued down 339 against them at the WACA in 1977 with two wickets close by. This is the third progressive away Test India have neglected to shield the objective in conclusive innings following losses in Johannesburg and Cape Town.

Root's recovery

9 Hundreds for Root against India - the most by any player, outperforming eight each for Gary Sobers, Viv Richards, Ricky Ponting and Steven Smith. Root presently has 2526 Test runs at a normal of 63.15 against India which is just behind Ponting's count of 2555 runs. Root's total of 737 runs in this series is just behind Graham Gooch's 752 runs in three Tests in 1990 with regards to rubbers among India and England.

32 Average for Root in fourth innings toward the beginning of English summer after 37 innings with a most noteworthy score of 87. In this mid year however, he has up to this point hit 115* at Lords, three at Trent Bridge, 86* at Headingly and 142* at Edgbaston taking his fourth innings normal to 41.51.

Bairstow's brilliant summer

6 Hundreds for Bairstow in 2022 - the joint-most for an England player in a schedule year in Tests. Bairstow equalled Denis Compton (in 1947) and the Yorkshire couple of Michael Vaughan (in 2002) and Joe Root (in 2021).

4 Bairstow turned into the fourth English player to score four centuries in a range of five innings. The succession got going with the second innings century against New Zealand at Trent Bridge (136) trailed by 162 and 71* at Headingley and 106 and 114* in this Test. Bairstow imitated Wally Hammond, Peter Parfitt, and Graham Gooch in doing as such.

The Yorkshire team

269* The unbeaten organization of 269 for the fourth wicket among Root and Bairstow is the most elevated for the fourth wicket in fourth innings of a Test match. The past record holders were Graeme Wood and Craig Serjeant who put on 251 against West Indies in Georgetown in 1978.

1 There is just a single organization for any wicket in fourth innings for England higher than the unbeaten 269 among Root and Bairstow: Paul Gibb and Bill Edrich set up 280 in the immortal Test against South Africa in Durban in 1939. The past most noteworthy organization in fourth innings of a Test against India was 216 between Roy Dias and Duleep Mendis in Kandy in 1985.

India's shock show

132 India's most memorable innings lead. This was just the second example of India losing a Test match in the wake of taking a 100+ first innings lead. The main other case it happened was against Sri Lanka at Galle in 2015 when they wound up 63 runs shy of the objective notwithstanding a 192-run lead.

6.22 Economy rate for Mohammed Siraj and Shardul Thakur in the Test match - the most horrendously terrible ever for India's change seamers in a Test match (15+ overs). They surrendered at 6.16 in the main innings and 6.26 in the second.