First Test Highlights England vs West Indies

FIRST TEST HIGHLIGHTS ENGLAND VS. WEST INDIES AT LORD'S

James Anderson's international swansong saw England overcome West Indies by an innings and 114 runs before lunch on the third day at Lord's.

Anderson's Test highlights include:

188 Tests, the second highest by any cricketer behind only Sachin Tendulkar (200)
704 wickets, the third highest by any bowler behind only Muttiah Muralitharan (800) and Shane Warne (708). Anderson is significantly the most successful fast bowler, the next highest being Stuart Broad (604)
The most not outs in a Test career (114), almost double the next highest of Courtney Walsh (61)
32 five-wicket hauls, the seventh-highest by any bowler and the most by an England player
438 wickets at home, the second most by any bowler behind only Muralitharan (493)
The most wickets at Lord's (123) and also the most appearances (29), ahead of Stuart Broad (113 in 28 Tests).
The fourth-highest number of overs bowled, 6672.5 (or 40,037 balls). Only Muralitharan (7339.5), Anil Kumble (6808.4) and Shane Warne (6784) bowled more
Anderson leads the field with most wickets taken both caught (469) and caught by the wicket-keeper (198). (Wicket-keeper catches are included in the Caught figure).
Anderson's first over in Test cricket, against Zimbabwe at Lord's, went for 17 runs whilst his last went for 7, in both cases the most expensive of his overs in those Test innings.
Anderson appeared in 83 England victories, the most by an England player. He is fifth in the all-time list, the other four all being Australians (Ponting, Warne, Steve Waugh and McGrath)

Some of my photos from Anderson's last day.

The last of Anderson's 40,037 legal deliveries in Test cricket

First Test highlights:

Gus Atkinson's match figures of 12 for 106 are the best by a player on Test debut at Lord's since Bob Massie's 16 for 137 for Australia in 1972.
Atkinson became the twelfth bowler on debut to take five wickets in both innings of the match. The last two occasions were both by Sri Lankan bowlers: Prabath Jayasuriya vs. Australia at Galle in 2022 and Praveen Jayawickrama vs. Bangladesh at Pallekele in 2021.
Atkinson's 7 for 45 in the first innings is the best first-innings debut bowling performance by an England bowler narrowly beating John Lever's 7 for 46 against India at Delhi in 1976-77. Atkinson's figures are the sixth best by any bowler, the best being Narendra Hirwani's 8 for 61 for India vs. West Indies at Madras (now Chennai) in 1987-88.
Atkinson's first-innings analysis is the second best at Lord's by a player on debut. Bob Massie's 8 for 84 in 1972 heads the list.
Atkinson now holds the best first-innings debut figures by a cricketer who also scored a golden duck in his first Test innings. Previously, South Africa's George Parker took 6-152 against England at Edgbaston in 1924 before being dismissed by his first ball in Test cricket.
England recorded five fifties in their only innings, the fifth time they have done so at Lord's. The other occasions were against Australia in 1926, India in 1952 and Sri Lanka in 2002 and 2011.
The last occasion where a side lost twenty wickets in a match with a the top score of no more than 31 (Gudakesh Motie's second innings score at Lord's) was by Zimbabwe against South Africa at Port Elizabeth in 2017-18.
Ben Stokes became only the third cricketer after Sir Garfield Sobers and Jacques Kallis to score 6000 runs and take 200 wickets.
For the sixth time in their history, West Indies lost their first seven wickets in both innings of the same Test for fewer than 100 runs. The last occasion was against Australia at Brisbane 2000-01.
Jamie Smith became the tenth England wicket-keeper to score 50 in his maiden Test innings. Smith's 70 is the sixth-highest such innings whilst the record is Matt Prior's 126*, also against West Indies at Lord's, in 2007.
Smith provided the twelfth instance of a cricketer scoring a fifty or more during a Lord's Test in which they had a birthday. (This is not necessarily the same as scoring the fifty on the birthday).
The last occasion of a team not having a fifty partnership in two completed innings of the same Test at Lord's was Zimbabwe in 2000. The 2024 Lord's Test saw the ninth such occasion.
The West Indian match aggregate of 257 runs for 20 wickets is their third-lowest against England in England and their ninth-lowest against all opposition. Their lowest in all matches is 175 for 18 wickets at The Oval in 1957.
The above aggregate is the West Indian lowest at Lord's surpassing their 300 for 20 wickets in 2017.
In terms of balls bowled, the Test was the fifth shortest (1072) at Lord's where there has been a result. The shortest was between England and Australia in 1888 (792).