The first edition of the Anderson-Tendulkar Trophy ended in a 2-2 draw but the story goes beyond that.
India sent a young team without Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma and Ravichandran Ashwin. This team fought hard. One player, a 25-year-old, scored centuries in three English cities and made tons of runs. Even without Jasprit Bumrah, the bowling attack did well.
Overall it was a series for the record books with Indian batters leading the way and bowlers proving their worth. Let’s look at what happened over the last month and a half.
- Most runs in an India vs England Test series: Shubman Gill scored 754 runs in 5 Tests against England. This breaks Graham Gooch’s record of 752 runs in 3 matches from 1990.
- Most runs for India as captain in a Test series: Gill’s 754 runs also beats Sunil Gavaskar’s record (732 vs West Indies in 1978-79). Only Don Bradman has scored more as captain in a Test series (810).
- First batter to score 700 runs in a series in SENA Countries: Shubman Gill is the first Asian batter to score 700 runs in a Test series in SENA countries. Before this, Virat Kohli had the highest score (692 runs in Australia, 2014-15 series.
- Highest individual score by an Indian captain in a Test: Shubman Gill scored 269 in the first innings of the 2nd Test at Edgbaston breaking Virat Kohli’s record of 254 vs South Africa in 2019.
- First captain from Asia to score a double century in SENA countries: Shubman Gill is the first Asian captain to score a double century in a Test match in SENA countries. Tillakaratne Dilshan’s 193 against England at Lord’s in 2011 was the best score till now.
- Most runs in a Test match by an Away batter: Shubman Gill scored 430 (269+161) in the 2nd Test breaking the record for most runs in a Test match away from home. Mark Taylor of Australia previously held the record (426 vs Pakistan in Peshawar, 1998).
- First English captain to take 5-fer and score a 100 in a same Test match: Ben Stokes is the first England captain to score a hundred and take five wickets in the same match. Only four others have done this: Denis Atkinson, Garry Sobers, Mushtaq Mohammad and Imran Khan.
- First Indian wicket keeper to score a ton in both innings of a Test match: Rishabh Pant started the tour well, scoring two centuries in the first Test against England at Headingley. He’s the first Indian wicketkeeper to score two centuries in a Test match.
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- Joe Root’s sublime run: Joe Root showed he’s England’s best Test batter in the series. He made 537 runs, 3 centuries and a fifty. His career total is now 13,543, second only to Sachin Tendulkar in Test runs.
Root also became the first player to score 6000 runs in the World Test Championship. He now has most Test centuries at home (10) against India. His total Test centuries is 39. - Bumrah – First Asian to pick 150 wickets in SENA Nations: Jasprit Bumrah is the first Asian bowler to take 150 Test wickets in South Africa, England, New Zealand and Australia. He got there in his 32nd Test, taking a five-wicket haul in the first innings of the first Test against England at Headingley. He reached the milestone in 61 innings, faster than Wasim Akram and Anil Kumble.
- 7000-plus runs in the series: The Anderson-Tendulkar Trophy was full of runs, with over 7000 runs scored in the five Tests. This is only the second time this has happened, after the 1993 Ashes (7221 runs). India scored 3809 runs, the second-highest by a team in a Test series, after Australia’s 3877 in the 1989 Ashes. India hit 470 boundaries, most ever in a single Test series.
- Smallest and biggest victories for India in terms of runs: India’s 6-run victory was their closest ever in a Test match. Earlier, in the second Test at Edgbaston, India beat England by 336 runs, which was their biggest away win in Tests.
