Pakistan vs England, 1st Test: Statistical highlights

Pakistan vs England, 1st Test: Statistical highlights: England almost pulled out a win from nowhere in 1st Test at Abu Dhabi against Pakistan on a flattest of tracks. Pakistan collapsed on final day after both teams posting huge totals in their respective 1st innings’. England needed 99 to win in 19 overs and they could only manage 74 for loss of 4 wickets before bad light brought an end to an exciting game.

Pakistan vs England, 1st Test: Statistical highlights:

25 – Runs needed for England to win the Test match. This is only the 17th closet drawn game in terms of runs remaining.

425 – Pakistan-England Test match lasted for 427 overs. This is only the 4th test in 2015 that lasted 425 overs out of 28 test matches.

1 – Adil Rashid is the first ever player to pick a five-wicket haul in 2nd innings of test match on debut after conceding more than 100 runs in 1st innings without picking a wicket.

11 – 11 wickets fell in the final session on final day of this test match. Only during 1953 at Manchester, 12 wickets fell in last session on Day 5 in England-Australia game.

1024 – Balls bowled by spinners in this test before picking up a wicket. Shoaib Malik dismissing Ben Stokes in England’s 1st innings was the first wicket claimed by a spinner in this game. Since 2002, this is the longest period before spinners picked up a wicket in a Test match. Previous highest is during Australia-India Test in 2012 at Sydney.

836 – Alastair Cook batted for 836 minutes which is the 3rd longest test innings in terms of minutes batted.

12 – Alastair Cook became only the 2nd player to bat for more than 12 hours in an innings on 2 occasions. Brian Lara is only other player to do it so.

6 – Alastair Cook’s 836 minute long innings is the 6th longest innings in First Class Cricket in terms of minutes batted.

2065 – Runs scored by Alastair Cook in Asia. These are the most runs scored by a non-Asian batsman in Asian continent.

9 – Shoaib Malik became only the 3rd Pakistani and 9th in overall to pick 4 wickets in a Test match after scoring a double century in an innings in the same test.

4 – Shoaib Malik is only the 4th player to score more than 240 runs and pick 4 wickets in same Test match.

3 – Shoaib Malik is only the 3rd player to be dismissed for a duck and score more than 240 runs in the same Test match.

432 – Balls bowled by Zulfiqar Babar during England’s 1st innings. This is only the 43rd instance where a bowler bowled 432 or more deliveries in a Test innings. Only 3 other Pakistani bowlers bowled more than 432 balls in a Tests innings.

417 – James Anderson’s wickets in Test Cricket. He is jointly the 9th highest wicket taker in Test Cricket.

6 – James Anderson is now the 6th highest wicket taker among Pace bowlers in Test Cricket with 417 wickets.

8897 – Younis Khan is now the leading run scorer for Pakistan in Test Cricket. He has now 8897 runs in this format and overhauled Javed Miandad’s 8832 runs.