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| INDIA VS. ENGLAND FIRST TEST HIGHLIGHTS AT CHENNAI |
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- Joe Root became the ninth player to record a century in their 100th Test.
- Root is the first of the 100th Test centurions to go on to a double century. His 218 beats the previous highest of 184 by Inzamam-ul-Haq.
- Root's 218 is the highest score by a visiting player at Chepauk, surpassing Dean Jones's 210 in the second tied Test in 1986-87.
- Root's 377-ball innings is the fourth longest by balls faced at Chepauk. Sunil Gavaskar's 425-ball, unbeaten 236 against West Indies in 1983-84 is the longest.
- Root's innings is the twelfth occasion by seven captains - Virat Kohli has accounted for six of these instances - of scoring a double century in India. Only one other visiting captain, Clive Lloyd in 1974-75 in Bombay, has achieved the feat.
- Root's match aggregate of 258 runs is just short of Ricky Ponting's record 263 (with a century in each innings) as the most by a player in their 100th Test.
- The partnership of 200 between Root and Dom Sibley is England's highest for the third wicket at Chepauk. The previous highest was 146 between Root and Moeen Ali in 2016-17.
- Dom Sibley became the third batsmen at Chepauk to bat for more than 250 balls without registering a century. Both others are from England, Alec Stewart (74 in 289 balls in 1992-93) and Jack Robertson (77 in 270 in 1951-52).
- The England first innings saw the first occasion in a Test at Chepauk of five batsmen being dismissed lbw.
- Washington Sundar's unbeaten 85 is India's fourth-highest score by a number 7 at Chepauk.
- For only the second time, seven different England players took a catch in an innings in India. The previous occasion was at Bangalore in 1976-77.
- Dom Bess's 4 for 76 in the first Indian innings and Jack Leach's 4 for 76 in the second innings are the best innings analysis by an England spinner at Chepauk since Derek Underwood's 4 for 28 in 1976-77. England have played six further Tests at Chepauk since then.
- Root's match aggregate of 258 runs is the most by an England player in India, surpassing Sir Andrew Strauss's 231, also at Chepauk, in 2008-09.
- Based on a side losing all ten wickets in both innings of a Test, the difference of 400 runs between England's first and second innings is their highest in all Tests. Their previous highest was 327 against South Africa at Trent Bridge in 2003. Of all Test-playing countries, England's 400-run difference is the fifth highest, the most being 456 by West Indies (590 and 134) against India at Mumbai in 2011-12.
- In the second England innings, Rory Burns became the first player to fall to the first ball of a Test innings at Chepauk.
- Ishant Sharma became the sixth Indian bowler - and third fast bowler - to take 300 Test wickets.
- India's 227-run defeat is their largest by runs at Chepauk, their previous being 202 runs, also against England, in 1933-34.
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