England posted a competitive total of 387 in the first innings. Another fifer for Jasprit Bumrah and his first at the home of cricket. Joe Root broke the record of Indian legend Rahul Dravid. Let’s look at the records being shattered during the Day 2 of England vs India 3rd Test Match 2025 by Jasprit Bumrah & Joe Root.
Joe Root overtakes Rahul Dravid
Joe Root took a brilliant catch at slips to dismiss Karun Nair. This was his 211th catch in test cricket. He overtook former Indian Captain Rahul Dravid ‘s record of most catches in this format.
Most catches in test cricket:
- Joe Root – 211
- Rahul Dravid – 210
- Mahela Jayawardene – 205
- Steven Smith – 200
- Ricky Ponting – 196
Most test centuries at Home
Joe Root scored his 22nd century at home. He equaled the record of legends like Sachin Tendulkar and Kumar Sangakkara to become the batters to score the second – most centuries in test cricket bat home. He needs just two more centuries to climb to the first place.
Most test centuries at home :
- Mahela Jayawardene – 23 in Sri Lanka
- Jacques Kallis – 23 in South Africa
- Ricky Ponting – 23 in Australia
- Kumar Sangakkara – 22 in Sri Lanka
- Sachin Tendulkar – 22 in India
- Joe Root – 22 in England
This is Root’s 11th century against India in test cricket. He equaled the record of Steve Smith in most test centuries against India in red ball cricket.
Most centuries against a team in test cricket :
- Don Bradman – 19 vs England
- Sunil Gavaskar – 13 vs West Indies
- Jack Hobbs – 12 vs Australia
- Steven Smith – 12 vs England
- Sachin Tendulkar – 11 vs Australia
- Steven Smith – 11 vs India
- Joe Root – 11 vs India
450 for Bumrah
Jasprit Bumrah took his 450th international wicket for India. He became the 9th Indian bowler to achieve this feat.
Most international wickets for India :
- Anil Kumble – 956
- Ravichandran Ashwin – 765
- Harbhajan Singh – 711
- Kapil Dev – 687
- Ravindra Jadeja – 611
- Zaheer Khan – 610
- Javagal Srinath – 551
- Mohammed Shami – 462
- Jasprit Bumrah – 450
- Ishant Sharma – 434
Uprooting Joe Root
Jasprit Bumrah dismissed Joe Root for the 15th time in international cricket.
Bowlers to dismiss Root for most no.of times in international cricket :
- Jasprit Bumrah – 15 ( 25 matches )
- Pat Cummins – 14 ( 31 matches )
- Ravindra Jadeja – 13 ( 43 matches )
- Josh Hazlewood – 13 ( 32 matches )
- Trent Boult – 12 ( 30 matches )
- Mitchell Starc – 11 ( 40 matches )
Into the Honours Board
Jasprit Bumrah took a fifer yesterday and registered his name in the honours board of the lord’s cricket stadium.
Jasprit Bumrah is the 11th Indian bowler to achieve this feat. Indian bowlers to take fifers in test cricket :
- Vinoo Mankad – 5/196 ( 1952 )
- Ramakant Desai – 5/89 ( 1959 )
- B.S. Chandrashekhar – 5/127 ( 1967 )
- Bishan Singh Bedi – 5/226 ( 1974 )
- Kapil Dev – 5/125 ( 1982 )
- Chetan Sharma – 5/64 ( 1986 )
- Venkatesh Prasad – 5/76 ( 1996 )
- RP Singh – 5/59 ( 2007 )
- Praveen Kumar – 5/106 ( 2011 )
- Bhuvaneshwar Kumar – 6/82 ( 2014 )
- Ishant Sharma – 7/74 ( 2014 )
- Jasprit Bumrah – 5/74 ( 2025 )
Classy KL Rahul
KL Rahul scored a half-century and is still standing in the crease, carrying the hopes of India. This was his 11th 50-plus score in SENA tests.
Most 50-plus scores by Asian openers in SENA tests:
- Sunil Gavaskar – 19
- Dimuth Karunaratne – 12
- KL Rahul – 11
- Saeed Anwar – 10
- Virender Sehwag – 10
- Tamim Iqbal – 10
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