England v West Indies 2017: 3rd Test, Day 2 – Statistical Highlights

In another day of wickets and rain at the Lord’s, England took a crucial 71-run first inning lead to put the pressure on the visitors, who lost three wickets for 93 in their 2nd innings before the end of the 2nd day’s play. After James Anderson completed 500 Test wickets, the West Indians now stand at 22/3 effectively excluding the deficit.

Here we look at all the stats and records created during the day’s play.

1 – This is the first time Ben Stokes has scored a fifty and picked up a 5-wicket haul in the same Test match. He is the first England pacer to do the double since Stuart Broad and Tim Bresnan in the 2011 Nottingham Test against England.

6 – James Anderson became only the 6th player, 3rd pacer and the 1st England bowler to take 500 wickets in Test cricket. He is the joint slowest to complete 500 Test wickets as he took 129 Tests.

85 – Number of wickets James Anderson has taken in Test cricket at the Lord’s. These are the 5th most by any bowler and the most for a pacer at a venue in Test cricket. He went past Heath Streak’s tally of 83 wickets at Harare.

317 – The 317 runs scored in the first innings collectively by both the teams in this Test is the lowest in a Test match in England in the last 40 years. The overall record is England-West Indies Test at Manchester in 1976 where both the teams cumulatively scored 282 runs in the first innings.

317 – Number of balls West Indies bowled in England’s 1st innings using only three bowlers (Kemar Roach, Shanon Gabriel, and Jason Holder). These are the most by any team with only three bowlers in a Test innings since 317 by Pakistan against West Indies in 2005 at Kingston.

2001 – The last instance where all 20 wickets in the first two innings of a Test match at Lord’s were bagged by the pacers before this Test was back in 2001 in the match between England and Pakistan.

2005 – The last time before this Test match, both the team bowled were out on under 200 in the first innings of a Test in England was in 2005 Ashes. England and Australia were bowled out under 200 in their 1st innings of the Lord’s Test.

2009 – The last time before Kemar Roach, a West Indian picked up a 5-wicket haul in Tests against England was Fidel Edwards in 2009 also at the Lord’s. Edwards picked up six wickets in the 1st innings of that Test.