WEST INDIES VS ENGLAND FIRST TEST, BARBADOS
     
  • James Anderson became the first English bowler and fifteenth cricketer in total to take 200 wickets in Tests away from home. Shane Warne heads the list with 389.
  • Shimron Hetmyer followed in the steps of Frank Worrell, Viv Richards and Gordon Greenidge by scoring more in an innings against England than the opposition scored. Richards and Greenidge managed the feat in the same Test at Old Trafford in 1976. In Test cricket, the feat has been achieved on 29 occasions.
  • Keaton Jennings's 17 in the first England innings represents the joint-second lowest, highest score in a completed England Test innings. There have been four previous occasions where 17 has been the top England score (Tests 25,28, 45 and 462) whilst their lowest, top score is Gilbert Jessop's 15 against Australia at Sydney in 1901-02. Jennings's score is the lowest, top score of a completed England innings since 1958-59.
  • England's 77 is their joint-fifteenth lowest Test total. Of the 17 occasions that they have made no more than 77 in a completed innings, four have come against West Indies.
  • It appears that this Test offers the greatest disparity of wickets lost over successive days of the same Test. I can find no other Test where 18 or more wickets have fallen on one day and none (in a full day's play) on the next. The closest seems to be Test 1451 between West Indies and Australia at Kingston in 1998-99 where 14 fell on the first day and none on the second.
  • Jason Holder became the sixth West Indian captain to score 200 in an innings. It is the tenth such occasion, Brian Lara performing the feat on five occasions. In total, 77 captains have achieved double centuries in Tests.
  • Holder is only the second captain to score 200 in an innings at No.8. Wasim Akram's unbeaten 257 for Pakistan vs. Zimbabwe in 1996-97 is the highest such score.
  • The unbeaten partnership of 295 between Holder and Shane Dowritch is a seventh-wicket record for West Indies against England surpassing the 204 between Marlon Samuels and Darren Sammy at Trent Bridge in 2012. Their partnership is the third highest for the seventh wicket in Test cricket and the highest for that wicket since 1955-56.
  • The above partnership is the fourth highest involving a captain and wicket-keeper. The highest is 352 between New Zealand's Brendon McCullum and Bradley-John Watling against India at Wellington in 2013-14.
  • Roston Chase became the first West Indian slow bowler since Alf Valentine in 1950 to take eight wickets in an innings against England.
  • The West Indian win by 381 runs is their second-largest by runs against England after their 425-run win at Old Trafford in 1976. It is their third-highest runs victory against all opposition and the joint-fifteenth highest in Test cricket.
  • The defeat is England's joint-seventh heaviest by runs in Tests.
  • The Test saw the fifth occasion of a side producing one player scoring 200 in an innings and another taking eight wickets in an innings during the same Test.