Stats – Kuldeep’s quick fifty and Jaiswal’s race to 1000

220 – Number of balls bowled by Indian spinners during the very first over of the Dharamsala Test. The spinners of a team have bowled the fewest balls to claim all ten wickets during the very first innings in a Test match. In 2022, Pakistan, also against England, set a record with 250.

1871 – The number of balls Kuldeep Yadav took to reach 50 wickets in Test cricket, which is the fewest for just about any Indian bowler. Axar Patel was the previous fastest, he reached the 50-wicket milestone in 2205 balls.

Among all spinners, he’s the second fastest to the landmark, behind England’s Johnny Briggs, who took only 1512 balls to get there.

16 – Innings needed for Yashasvi Jaiswal to complete 1000 runs in Test cricket, the second-fastest for an Indian in the format. The fastest is still Vinod Kambli who reached there in only 14 innings.

Jaiswal is the fastest Indian to reach 1000 runs as an opener in men’s Tests, bettering the record held by his captain Rohit Sharma: 17 innings.

239 – Number of days from his debut that Jaiswal took to complete 1000 Test runs, the fifth-quickest for a batter. Michael Hussey broke the record just 164 days after making his debut.

Jaiswal broke the 1000-run barrier in Test cricket with nine Tests – the joint second-quickest in history behind Herbert Sutcliffe and George Headley, and Everton Weekes. Only Donald Bradman is ahead, having reached the milestone in his seventh Test.

1976 – The previous instance of Indian spinners taking ten wickets on the first day of a Test match. In Auckland, it came against New Zealand. Indian spinners last claimed all ten wickets in a home Test in 1973, also against England, at Chennai.

1 – This is the first instance in 58 first-class matches at the HPCA Stadium in Dharamsala of spinners picking up all ten wickets in an innings. Saurashtra vs Himachal Pradesh in 2007 was the previous record holder with nine.

712 – Runs by Jaiswal so far this series, the most by an Indian batter in a Test series against England, surpassing Virat Kohli’s 655 in 2016. Jaiswal holds the 3rd highest series history for an Indian cricketer in a Test series, trailing just Sunil Gavaskar with 774 against West Indies in 1971 and 732 against them in 1978 as well as 1979.

2 – Instances of an Indian spinner dismissing five of the oppositions’ top six in a Test innings in the past seven years. Both times it was Kuldeep who did this – against West Indies in the 2018 Rajkot Test and against England here.