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| West Indies VS. England Third Test Highlights, Grenada |
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- The partnership of 90 between Jack Leach and Saqib Mahmood is the third-highest, tenth-wicket partnership for England against West Indies, but the highest in West Indies.
- The above partnership is the second highest for England against West Indies where the highest partnership in an innings has been for the tenth wicket. Only Peter Willey and Bob Willis’s unbeaten 117 at The Oval in 1980 is higher. In the same circumstances, but against all opposition, the Leach & Mahmood partnership is the fourth highest for England.
- For the sixth occasion in Test history, the match’s highest partnership was for the tenth wicket. The last such occasion was also between England and West Indies, at Edgbaston in 2012. It is the first occasion of England providing the said partnership.
- Mahmood became only the twelfth No. 11 to top score in a team’s innings, and the second for England after Steve Harmison against South Africa in Cape Town in 2004-05.
- Mahmood is also the first number 11 to top score for England in a Test. Only Ashton Agar (for Australia vs. England at Trent Bridge in 2013) and Bert Vogler (for South Africa vs. England at Cape Town in 1906, in a match in which South Africa only batted once) have been their side’s top scorer. No number 11 has made the top score for both sides in a Test.
- Mahmood’s 149-minute innings is the joint ninth longest (and third for England) by a number 11 in Test history. James Anderson’s 232-minute innings against India at Trent Bridge in 2014 heads the list.
- Leach’s 196-minute innings is the longest by a number 10 for England. The previous longest is shared between Ken Higgs (vs. West Indies at The Oval in 1966) and Bob Taylor (vs. Pakistan at Edgbaston in 1982). In the pantheon of longest innings by a number 10 from all countries, Leach’s is the 14th longest.
- In terms of balls faced, Mahmood’s 118 is the seventh most in an innings by a number 11 (and third for England).
- Leach’s 141-ball innings is the seventh most for England by a number 10.
- For the first time in any completed team innings, the top two scorers have been numbers 11 and 10 (in that order). The Third Test between Australia and England in 1885 saw numbers 10 and 11 as the top two scorers, and there has been another occasion of number 11 top scoring followed by Extras being the second highest.
- Joe Root’s duck is his first against West Indies, in his 14th Test against them.
- For the first time ever in a Test innings between England and West Indies, numbers 2 to 7 inclusive failed to reach double figures. It is the fifth such occasion for England against all opposition.
- Joshua Da Silva’s maiden Test century is the first by a West Indian wicket-keeper since Shane Dowrich scored 116* against England at Bridgetown in 2018-19. Da Silva is only the tenth West Indian wicket-keeper to score a Test century.
- Ben Foakes became the fifth England wicket-keeper to effect four dismissals in a Test innings in West Indies joining Les Ames, David Bairstow, Jack Russell and Jos Buttler.
- Jayden Seales 115-minute innings is the second longest by a number 11 for West Indies behind only Tino Best’s 138-minute 95, also against England, in 2012 at Birmingham.
- For only the second time in their history, West Indies recorded fifty partnerships in the same innings for both the ninth and tenth wickets. The other occasion was against Australia at Melbourne in 1984-85.
- For only the second time in their Test history, England’s numbers 2 to 5 inclusive failed in both innings to reach double figures. The other occasion was against Australia at Lord’s in 1888. The only other team to do the same was South Africa against England at Cape Town in 1888-89.
- Leach’s combined total of facing 196 balls in the match is the second highest – and highest for England – by a number 10. The highest is 218 by Shivlal Yadav for India against New Zealand at Auckland in 1980-81.
- Leach’s 280 minutes of resilience at the crease during the match is the longest by any number 10 in Tests. The previous highest was Nuwan Kulasekra’s 254 minutes of defiance for Sri Lanka against England at Lord’s in 2006.
- Kyle Mayers’s 5 for 17 is the second-best innings return at Grenada’s National Stadium (or formerly Queen’s Park). Kemar Roach’s 6 for 48 against Bangladesh in 2009 is the best.
- Mayers’s runs per over rate of 1.15 is the fourth best for West Indies based on the bowler taking a minimum of seven wickets in the match. The best is by Lance Gibbs (vs. India at Bridgetown in 1961-62) whose match figures of 69.3-44-63-9 gave him a runs-per-over rate of 0.91.
- England’s aggregate of 324 for 20 wickets is their fifth lowest in West Indies. Their lowest is 307 for 20 wickets at Georgetown, Guyana in 1997-98.
- The match saw the sixth time for England in West Indies that there were fourteen (or more) single-figure innings in the match. Their most is 15 at Kingston in 2008-09.
- Kraigg Brathwaite’s 341 runs in the series is the fourth highest by a West Indian captain in a three-match series. Brian Lara heads the list with 448 runs against Pakistan in 2006-07. Brathwaite’s figures are the highest in the same circumstances in West Indies (although Graeme Smith scored 371 for South Africa in 2010.
- Alex Lees became the fourth England opener to make identical scores in the same Test against West Indies.
- In eight of their last nine home Tests, West Indies have used at least seven bowlers in one innings of a Test. On four of these occasions, the figure has been eight.
- The West Indian win is their first (in four Tests dating back to the first Test played there in 2002) at Grenada. The other three Tests have resulted in two losses and one draw for them.
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