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Highlights of Only Test England VS. Ireland, Lord's
- England's 524 for 4 is their highest total at Lord's since their 575 for 9 against Sri Lanka in 2014
- During England's first innings, all five Irish bowlers conceded over 80 runs each. This is the 23rd such occasion between all opposition and only the second time at Lord's, the last occasion being between England and India in 1990.
- Ollie Pope's 205 is the fifth double century by a number 3 at Lord's, and the third by an English player. Don Bradman's 254 for Australia in 1930 tops the list.
- Ben Duckett became only the thirteenth England player to score 100 runs in a session in moving from 60 to 161 between start of play and lunch on the second day.
- Pope then became the fourteenth England player to also score 100 runs in a session, moving from 97 to 197 in the afternoon session of the second day.
- Instances of two players scoring 100 runs in a session in the same Test are not rare, there being three other instances. Three players have also scored 100 runs in a session twice during the same innings.
- Duckett's 182 is the second-highest score by an England player on his first appearance at Lord's. In his tenth Test appearance, Duckett played his first Test in England. Jonathan Trott's 226 against Bangladesh in 2010 heads the list.
- The partnership of 252 between Pope and Duckett is the third-highest for the second wicket for England at Lord's. It is also the third-highest for any wicket conceded by Ireland.
- Joe Root became the eleventh player and second from England to score 11,000 Test runs. He is the second youngest to do so (32 years 154 days) just behind Sir Alastair Cook (31 years 357 days).
- In taking 3824 days to reach the landmark, Root became the quickest to do so ahead of Cook (3943 days).
- Josh Tongue became the first England player at Lord's to take no wickets in the first innings of his debut Test but five in the second innings.
- The 163-run partnership between Mark Adair and Andy McBrine in Ireland's second innings is the highest seventh-wicket partnership against England at Lord's. The previous highest was an unbeaten 155 between Garry Sobers and Bernard Julien for West Indies in 1973.
- The partnership is also Ireland's highest for the seventh wicket against all opposition surpassing the 114 between Kevin O'Brien and Stuart Thompson in Ireland's debut Test against Pakistan at Malahide in 2018.
- For the third time in their Test history, three (or more) Irish players recorded fifties in the same innings.
- England's first-innings lead of 352 is the second-highest lead to be overturned at Lord's. In 2002, Sri Lanka overturned a deficit of 359.
- McBrine's unbeaten 86 is his highest first-class score.
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