England vs India 5th Test Day 4 Stats Review: Rishabh Pant’s feat, Jonny Bairstow’s stellar form, and other stats

Jonny Bairstow’s purple patch in Tests is not going to end anytime soon as the devastating batter slammed yet another 50-plus score to put England in the driving seat for a victory. No.1 batter in the ICC Test rankings, Joe Root also hit 76 not out as the duo shared an unbeaten 150 runs stand for the fourth wicket to take their side closer to an empathic and memorable series-levelling win. Openers Alex Lees and Zak Crawley also came back into some form to score 56 and 46 runs respectively in their pursuit of the 378 runs target.

Speaking of how Day four of the final Test went by, Cheteshwar Pujara, continuing from his overnight score of 50* got dismissed for 66. Wicketkeeper batter and the century-maker from the first innings, Rishabh Pant carried his good form to score 57 off 86 which included eight fours. Shreyas Iyer yet again got out for below 20 with Matty Potts dismissing him. Ravindra Jadeja made 23 while England skipper Ben Stokes took 4/33 to end the visitors’ innings on 245.

Chasing 378, Lees and Crawley gave the home side a solid start as the opening pair brought up a century stand, England’s first in 24 innings. But the former got run out and Indian captain Jasprit Bumrah grabbed the wickets of Crawley and Pope as the hosts found themselves from 107/0 to 109/3. But Root and Bairstow then joined hands to bring back the home side well and truly into the contest. The latter hit his seventh 50-plus score this year, equaling Australia’s Usman Khawaja. At the end of the play, the English side posted 259/3 with both the batters remaining not out in their respective 70s. Stokes and his men are just 119 runs away from leveling a historic series 2-2.

Meanwhile, here are some of the important stats and numbers from 5^th Test Day 4 between England and India:

 2 – Rishabh Pant became the second Indian wicketkeeper to score a century and a half-century in the same Test. Farokh Engineer achieved the feat against England in the year 1973.

203 – Pant registered the third-most runs 203 (146 and 57) by an Indian wicketkeeper in a Test match. Budhi Kunderan scored 230 (192 and 38) against England in 1964 and MS Dhoni 224 against Australia in 2013.

100 – James Anderson reached the landmark of 100 catches in the longest format of the game.

3 – Ben Stokes recorded his third-best figures of 4/33 in Tests at home. He took 6/22 against West Indies at Lord’s in 2017 and 6/36 against Australia at Nottingham in 2015.

671* – Joe Root has now scored the second-most runs (671*) in an India-England Test series. Graham Gooch tops the chart for amassing 752 runs in the 1990 series.

7 – Jonny Bairstow has now slammed the joint-most 50-plus scores (7) with Usman Khawaja in 2022.

515 – Pant has now racked up 515 runs in his last seven innings at an average of 85.83 with two centuries and three half-centuries.

138.75 – Bairstow has hammered 555 runs in his last six innings at a mind-boggling average of 138.75 with three centuries and two half-centuries.

1986 – Cheteshwar Pujara struck the first half-century by an Indian opener at Edgbaston in Birmingham since Sunil Gavaskar in 1986.

23 – With 23 wickets, Jasprit Bumrah has now taken the most wickets by an Indian pacer against England in a series. Kapil Dev had taken 22 scalps in the 1981/82 series.

14 – Alex Lees brought up just his second half-century in 14 innings.

24 – For the first time in 24 innings, England registered a century-opening partnership. The last one came between Rory Burns and Haseeb Hameed against India in 2021.

6 – Anderson became the sixth player after Ian Botham, Garry Sobers, Carl Hooper, Jacques Kallis, and Shane Warne to complete the treble of 1000 runs, 100 wickets, and 100 catches.

1 – Pant is now top of the list for slamming the most runs by a visiting wicketkeeper in Tests in England. He went past Clyde Walcott’s tally of 182 which he scored for the West Indies against England in 1950.

2 – Pant also became the second batter for India to smash a ton and a fifty in a Test match at Edgbaston in Birmingham. Virat Kohli did the same with scores of 149 and 51 in the year 2018.

5 – Stuart Broad dismissed Cheteshwar Pujara for the fifth time in Test cricket, joint-fifth most by any bowler with Trent Boult.

2 – Pant also became the second wicketkeeper batter to hit a century and a half-century in the same Test in England. Matt Prior did the same (71 and 103*) against India at Lord’s in 2011.