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First Test Highlights England vs. India, Headingley
- Shubman Gill became the fourth Indian captain to score a century in his first innings as captain. He joins Vijay Hazare, Sunil Gavaskar and Virat Kohli.
- Gill becomes the twenty-third captain to achieve the feat and his 147 is the seventh-highest score by a player in his first innings as captain.
- Both Gill (2000 runs) and Rishabh Pant (3000) reached their respective Test milestones during the first innings.
- India's first-day total of 359 for 3 is the joint-eighth highest total in England by a team which has been inserted. The highest is England's 498 for 3 earlier this season against Zimbabwe at Trent Bridge.
- It is also the second-highest in the same circumstances at Headingley behind only Australia's 366 for 3 against England in 1926.
- The last and only other occasion that an Indian side scored three centuries in the same innings in England was also at Headingley, in 2002.
- The partnership of 209 between Gill and Pant is India's third-highest for the fourth wicket against England. Oddly, the two higher ones (249 between Sachin Tendulkar and Souav Ganguly in 2002 and 222 between Vijay Hazare and Vijay Manjrekar in 1952) were also both at Headingley whilst the fifth highest was also at Headingley with the fourth the only one not at Leeds, at Rajkot.
- Pant's seventh Test century in the first innings means he has overtaken the previous record of six, set by Mahendra Singh Dhoni.
- India's first-innings 471 contained three centuries and six single-figure scores. There have been six instances of innings containing three centuries and five single-figures scores but the only same or similar innings to India's are: West Indies (four centuries and six under 10 scores) vs. India at Antigua 1982-83; New Zealand (four centuries and six under 10 scores) vs. Australia at Perth in 2001-02; England (three centuries and six under 10 scores) vs. West Indies at Lord's in 2004; West Indies (four centuries and six under 10 scores) vs. South Africa (who also scored four centuries in their first innings) at Antigua in 2004-05 and Australia (three centuries and six under 10 scores) vs. South Africa at Adelaide in 2012-13.
- India's collapse from 430 for 3 to 471 is the joint-fifth worst by any team which had made 400 or more before the collapse. The worst is 15 runs for the last seven wickets by Australia (418 for 3 to 433 all out) against England at Brisbane in 1970-71. This covers all innings of a match but it is the joint-second lowest for the first innings of a Test.
- India's 471 is the third-highest, first-innings total by an inserted team at Headingley. Australia 601 for 7 declared in 1989 leads the way.
- Ben Stokes's 4 for 66 is his best Test bowling since 2022 when he took 4 for 33, also against India, at Edgbaston.
- Harry Brook is the sixteenth England player to be dismissed for 99 in a Test. He is the second, after Marcus Trescothick, against India.
- Pant became the seventh Indian player, but first wicket-keeper, to score two centuries in the same match and joins Sunil Gavaskar (three times), Rahul Dravid (twice), Vijay Hazare, Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma and Ajinkya Rahane (all once).
- The only other wicket-keeper to score two centuries during the same match is Andy Flower for Zimbabwe against South Africa at Harare in 2001-02.
- Pant becomes only the second player after Shai Hope to score centuries in both innings of the same Test at Headingley.
- Pant is only the twelfth player whose two centuries in a match have been for a losing side.
- The Indian second innings saw only the third instance in a Test of the same side having partnerships of 150 or more in both innings of the same Test for the fourth wicket. The other occasions were for Pakistan vs. Australia at Brisbane in 1999-2000 and for Australia vs. West Indies at Sydney in 1968-69.
- For the first time, an Indian team registered five centuries in the same Test. Previously, they had scored four against Bangladesh at Mirpur in 2007; against Sri Lanka at Nagpur in 2017-18; against South Africa at Kolkata in 2009-10 and against Sri Lanka at Ahmedabad, also in 2009-10.
- For their fourth time against England, India lost their last seven wickets in both innings of the same match for fewer than 80 runs. The other occasions were at Old Trafford in 1952, Lord's in 2018 and Headingley in 2021.
- Brook became the first player to be dismissed for 99 and 0 in a Test for England. Sir Geoffrey Boycott scored 0 and an unbeaten 99 against Australia at Perth in 1979-80.
- Ben Duckett became the third player to score 200 runs in a Test for England at Headingley which includes a fifty in one innings and a century in the other.
- Duckett's second innings 149 is the second-highest score by an England player in a successful fourth-innings chase. Only Mark Butcher's unbeaten 173 against Australia, also at Headingley, in 2001 is higher.
- The 188-run partnership between Zak Crawley and Duckett is England's highest opening partnership in the fourth innings of a Test where they have successfully chased their target. The previous highest was 154 between Sir Geoffrey Boycott and Mike Brearley against Australia at Trent Bridge in 1977.
- England's victory target of 371 is the second-highest achieved at Headingley behind only Australia's 404 for 3 in 1948.
- There were seventeen instances of bowlers conceding 50 or more runs in the match, the most in any Test. The previous highest was fourteen between West Indies and Australia at Bridgetown in 1954-55.
- The match aggregate of 1673 is the second highest at Headingley behind only the 1723 between England and Australia in 1948. It is, though, the highest between England and India overtaking the 1614 (for 30 wickets) at Old Trafford in 1990.
- The seven centuries in the match is a record between England and India breaking the previous record of six. There were three occasions of six: at Lord's and Old Trafford in 1990 and at Rajkot in 2016-17. The record between any country is eight (between West Indies and South at Antigua in 2004-05 and Sri Lanka and Bangladesh at Galle in 2012-13).
- India's first innings 471 is the third-highest, first-innings total by an inserted team which has resulted in an eventual loss. Bangladesh's 595 for 8 against New Zealand at Wellington in 2016-17 is the highest.
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