England started with their usual bazball approach, but the middle-order couldn’t succeed with it. Yashasvi Jaiswal gave a reply to it with a quickfire half-century. India is looking forward to setting a competitive target for the hosts.
KL Rahul’s best series
Despite failing in both innings ( 14, 7 ) of the last test, this is the best test series for KL Rahul. He has scored 532 runs in 5 test matches with 2 centuries and 2 half-centuries in an average of 53.20. He is only the second Indian opener to cross 500 runs in an away test series.
Most runs by an Indian opener in an away test series:
- Sunil Gavaskar – 774 in the West Indies ( 1971 )
- Sunil Gavaskar – 542 in England ( 1979 )
- KL Rahul – 532 in England ( 2025 )
- Murali Vijay – 482 in Australia ( 2014 )
- Virender Sehwag – 464 in Australia ( 2003 )
KL Rahul missed the opportunity of climbing to the second place in the overall list and becoming the highest run getter as an Indian opener in England by just 11 runs.
Mohammed Siraj Miyan Magic
Mohammed Siraj has been the workhorse in the Indian fast bowling unit. He picked four wickets in the first innings and helped India restrict the hosts to 247 runs. He is now the leading wicket-taker of this test series with 18 wickets.
This is his 9th four-wicket haul in SENA test matches. Most four-wicket haul by an Indian bowler in SENA test matches:
- Jasprit Bumrah – 16
- Zaheer Khan – 12
- Anil Kumble – 11
- Mohammed Shami – 11
- Kapil Dev – 10
- Erapalli Prassana – 10
- Ishant Sharma – 10
- Mohammed Siraj – 9
Siraj entered another record book of the most four-wicket hauls by an Asian in England. Most four-wicket hauls by an Asian bowler in test matches in England:
- Mohammed Siraj – 6
- Muttiah Muralitharan – 6
- Waqar Younis – 6
- Jasprit Bumrah – 5
- Mohammed Amir – 5
- Yasir Shah – 5
Siraj also crossed another milestone of 200 international wickets for India, becoming the 15th Indian fast bowler to achieve this feat.
Most international wickets by Indian pacers:
- Kapil Dev – 687
- Zaheer Khan – 610
- Javagal Srinath – 551
- Mohammed Shami – 462
- Jasprit Bumrah – 457
- Ishant Sharma – 434
- Ajit Agarkar – 349
- Irfan Pathan – 301
- Bhuveneshwar Kumar – 294
- Venkatesh Prasad – 292
- Umesh Yadav – 288
- Manoj Prabhakar – 253
- Ashish Nehra – 235
- Hardik Pandya – 202
- Mohammed Siraj – 200
India need to set a competitive target for the hosts and we could expect another Miyan Magic in the second innings and India could recreate the famous “60 overs hell” which happened at the same venue in 2021.
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