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| ENGLAND VS. NEW ZEALAND THIRD TEST HIGHLIGHTS, HEADINGLEY |
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- Daryl Mitchell and Tom Blundell became the most prolific partnership for New Zealand against England in Tests. After the second New Zealand innings, they had amassed 747 runs in seven innings together surpassing the previous record of Ross Taylor and Kane Williamson (666 in 11 innings).
- Mitchell became the fifth New Zealand player to score hundreds in three consecutive Tests. This is distinct from scoring centuries in three consecutive innings. He joins team-mates Kane Williamson, Tom Latham and also Ross Taylor and Mark Burgess (whose feat was spread over two-and-a-half years). Mitchell is the first to achieve this against England. Eleven cricketers have now achieved this against England, Don Bradman and Rahul Dravid doing so twice.
- Mitchell’s 538 runs in the series is a record for New Zealand in a series of no more than three Tests. He overtook Brendon McCullum’s 535 (in 2 Tests) against India in 2013-14. The most by any player is 752 by Graham Gooch against India in 1990.
- Mitchell’s aggregate is also the second highest by any player in a team which lost every Test in a three-match series. Brian Lara’s 688 runs against Sri Lanka in 2001-02.
- Mitchell became the second New Zealand player to score five consecutive innings of 50 or more. After his first innings at Lord’s, his scores have been 108, 190, 62*, 109 and 56. The only other player, Giff Vivian, had a three-Test career in which only his first innings yielded fewer than 50 runs and which spanned six years, his last Test being over five years after his second.
- Blundell’s 383 runs is also the sixth highest by a wicket-keeper in a series of no more than three Tests. It is also a New Zealand record. The most by any wicket-keeper is 540 by Andy Flower (in 2 Tests) for Zimbabwe against India in 2000-01, and who accounted for three of these six performances.
- Jack Leach became only the 23rd spin bowler to take five wickets in an innings at Headingley. The last such occasion was by Graeme Swann, also against New Zealand, in 2013. The previous occasion to Swann’s was by John Emburey against Australia in 1985.
- England’s first innings saw their fourteenth occasion in a completed innings where their first four players have all scored below 10. Their last such occasion was against Australia at Sydney in 2013-14 whilst their only other occasion against New Zealand was at Wellington in 1977-78.
- The England first innings saw the thirteenth time in their history (covering all four innings of a Test) where their first three wickets have fallen bowled. Their last such occasion was against India at Kanpur in 1981-82.
- Jonny Bairstow became the 24th England player to score 5000 Test runs. Of these, 3131 have come as wicket-keeper.
- The partnership of 241 between Bairstow and Jamie Overton is a record for England against any country for the seventh wicket. The previous best was 197 between M.J.K. Smith and Jim Parks against West Indies at Port-of-Spain in 1959-60.
- The stand is also the highest for the seventh wicket by any team at Headingley, surpassing the 147 between Steve Waugh and Merv Hughes for Australia against England in 1989.
- Jamie Overton just missed out on being the seventh player at number 8 to register a hundred in his debut innings. The highest such innings is Azhar Mahmood’s unbeaten 128 for Pakistan against South Africa at Rawalpindi in 1997-98. One of the six such centurions played in this same Test as Overton, Tom Blundell.
- Overton is the second number 8 to fall in the 90s in his debut innings, Dilruwan Perera making 95 for Sri Lanka against Pakistan at Sharjah in 2013-14.
- Based on a side losing their first six wickets in an innings for 60 runs or fewer, England’s fightback is the largest in terms of runs (305). Their 360 is the highest total in such circumstances overtaking Australia’s 323 (from 58 for 6, an improvement of 265 runs) against England at Melbourne in 1897-98. There have, though, been higher improvements from other wickets using different starting points from previous dismissals.
- Stuart Broad finished the Test with 49 wickets at Headingley, the most by any bowler.
- Leach became the ninth spinner to take ten wickets in a Headingley Test. The last was Graeme Swann (10-132 against New Zealand) in 2013.
- Leach became the seventh bowler, and fourth spinner, at Headingley to take five wickets in each innings of the same Test. James Anderson, in 2016 against Sri Lanka, was the last player to do so.
- Mitchell became the seventeenth player to score a century and fifty in the same Test at Headingley. He is also the first New Zealand player to do so. Jonny Bairstow also performed the feat in the same Test.
- Blundell also became the first wicket-keeper to score fifties in both innings of a Headingley Test.
- Jonny Bairstow’s match aggregate of 233 runs is the most by an England number 5 in England, and the third highest in total for England. Reginald “Tip” Foster (287 vs. Australia at Sydney in 1903-04) and Denis Compton (250 vs. Australia at Adelaide in 1946-47) are the only higher scorers.
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