Bangladesh v England, 2nd Test, Day 1 - Statistical Highlights

Bangladesh opener Tamim Iqbal was the star of the day with the bat. He and partner Mominul Haque scored freely on a surface where most other batsmen found batting really difficult. Tamim scored a century, his 7th in Tests while Mominul was dismissed for 66. Moeen Ali, Chris Woakes and Ben Stokes shared all the Bangladesh wickets among themselves as Ali grabbed a five-wicket haul.

In their reply, England were off to a poor start as the Bangladeshi spin duo of Mehedi Hasan and Shakib Al Hasan made three early in-roads before the end of the day’s play. Here are all the stats and records from the day.

1 – Alastair Cook became the first player in Test history to score 10000 runs as an opener.

2 – This is only the 2nd Test England has played without James Anderson and Stuart Broad in the last 8 years. The other game was vs West Indies at Edgbaston in 2012.

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3 – Number of centuries Tamim Iqbal has against England. Among Bangladeshis, only Mohammad Ashraful has scored more centuries in Tests against a single team than Tamim. Ashraful has five tons against Sri Lanka.

5/57 – Moeen Ali’s bowling figures in the first innings are his best figures outside England. These are also the best figures by any England spinner against Bangladesh.

49 – Runs added by Bangladesh for their last nine wickets. This is the joint third-lowest score after being 150+ for the loss of just one wicket.

50 – Number of Test matches Mushfiqur Rahim has featured in. He is the 3rd Bangladeshi after Mohammad Ashraful and Habibul Bashar to play 50 Tests.

77.27 – Percentage of runs by Tamim Iqbal and Mominul Haque’s 170-run stand in the Bangladesh innings. This is the second-highest percentage for a completed Test innings. Highest is 77.78% during the 168-run stand between Sangakkara and Mahela Jayawardene out of 216 vs South Africa in 2000.

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170 – Partnership stand between Tamim Iqbal and Mominul Haque is the 2nd highest stand for them for any wicket against England in Tests. Tamim added 185 along with Imrul Kayes at Lord’s in 2010.

2004 – The last time before this game, England picked up last nine wickets in an innings for less than 50 runs in Tests was against West Indies at Kingston in 2004. The West Indies added 34 runs in that game.

2006 – The last time before Moeen Ali, an England spinner picked up 5-fer on the opening day of a Test was Monty Panesar in 2006 vs Australia at Perth.

2012 – The last time before this game, England spinners picked up at least 5 wickets on the opening day of a Test match was in 2012 vs India at Mumbai.

2013 – The last instance of a team losing its last nine wickets for less than 50 runs was also by Bangladesh vs Zimbabwe in 2013 at Harare.