Alastair Cook, on 70, became England’s leading run-scorer against India in Test cricket. He surpassed Graham Gooch’s tally of 1,725 runs.
Gary Ballance became eighth England batsman to aggregate 500 runs in a series against India, after Ken Barrington, Mike Gatting, Graham Gooch, Michael Vaughan, Kevin Pietersen, Ian Bell and Alastair Cook.
Ballance is the first England batsman to aggregate 500 runs in his first series against India. The previous record was held by Allan Watkins who scored 450 runs in five-match series in 1951-52.
Ballance is the first batsman since 2004-05 to score 500 runs in first series against India. Pakistan’s Younis Khan had then made 508 in a three-match series.
When R Ashwin dismissed Gary Ballance, it was 83 overs after which Ashwin took a wicket in an overseas Test. His last wicket came in January 2012 against Australia at Adelaide (victim- Ed Cowan).
After scoring 85 and 70 in his previous two innings, Jos Buttler was dismissed for 45. Had he made another fifty, Buttler would have become the first wicket-keeper in Test annals to score fifties in his first three innings.
Joe Root has now scored a fifty in each of the five matches of the series. He made 154* at Nottingham, 13 and 66 at Lord’s, 3 and 56 at Southampton, 77 at Manchester and….now 92* at the Oval.
Root is only the third England batsman to score a fifty in each match of a five-Test series after Wally Hammond and Peter May.
The details:
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Player
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Opponents
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Season
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Scores
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Wally Hammond
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South Africa
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1938-39
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24 & 58;
181; 120; 1 & 61* ; 24 & 140
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Peter May
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South Africa
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1955
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83; 0 & 112; 34 & 117; 47 & 97;
3 & 89*
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Joe Root
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India
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2014
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154*; 13 & 66; 3 & 56; 77; 92*
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Root is the seventh England batsman to remain unbeaten in nineties at the end of a day’s play against India. Only one batsman – John Edrich- failed to reach his hundred the next morning out of the previous six. After remaining unbeaten at 93 at the end of the first day’s play in Lord’s Test in 1974, Edrich was dismissed for 96 the next morning.
