Even after Jaiswal's 101, Gill's 147, Pant's 134 in the first innings, and Rahul's 137, plus Pant's 118 in the second, India still lost the Test match. They are the first team in history to lose a match despite having five individual centuries. No team had ever lost a match after scoring four centuries or more before.
Team India’s total of 835 runs over both innings is the fourth-highest ever recorded by a team that failed to win the Test.
Rishabh Pant etched his name in cricket history by scoring centuries in both innings of a Test, with scores of 124 and 103, making him the first Indian and Asian wicketkeeper to achieve a hundred in each innings of a Test match.
On the final day, England managed to chase down 371, marking their highest successful run chase ever on the last day of a Test in Headingley at Leeds. Australia's 404 in 1948 marks the only higher Day 5 chase recorded at this venue.
India and England combined for a whopping 1,673 runs, setting a new record for the most runs scored in a Test between these two teams. It overtook the earlier record of 1,614 runs from a 1990 fixture held in Manchester.
England vs India 2nd Test Match Records
India achieved their biggest away Test win ever, winning by 336 runs over England. Their previous highest victory in Test was a 318-run win over the West Indies in 2019.
India made history as the first Asian team to win a Test match at Edgbaston on English soil against England.
Shubman Gill, captain of Team India, made history as the first Indian and Asian to lead a team to victory in a Test match held in Birmingham.
At just 25 years and 301 days old, Shubman Gill made history as the youngest Indian captain to clinch a Test victory overseas, surpassing Sunil Gavaskar’s earlier record.
Shubman Gill put up an incredible 430 runs in the match, making it the highest ever by an Indian in a single Test, surpassing Sunil Gavaskar’s 344 against the West Indies back in 1971.
Gill set a new record for the highest runs scored by a visiting player in a Test match at Birmingham, surpassing Mark Taylor’s previous best of 426 runs against Pakistan in 1998.
Shubman Gill is only the second player after Gavaskar to score a century in his first Test as captain and then a double hundred in his second.
Gill broke the record for the highest individual score by an Indian captain in Tests with an incredible 269, beating Kohli’s previous best of 254.
His score of 269 also became the highest ever by an Indian in a Test played abroad, surpassing Tendulkar’s 241* in Sydney in 2004.
He's only the third visiting captain to hit over 250 in a Test inning in England, joining the likes of Bob Simpson and Graeme Smith. He's now in the same league as Sehwag and Dravid, being one of the only Indians to score over 250 in away Test matches.
He has become the sixth Indian captain to score a double century in Test cricket.
Gill is only the third Indian skipper to score consecutive Test centuries against England. He's now the second Indian captain, after Kohli, to notch up a double century in an away Test.
Akash Deep's 10/187 now sets the record for the best match figures by an Indian bowler in England, surpassing Chetan Sharma’s 10/188.
Mohammed Siraj's impressive 6/70 made him the first Indian cricketer to take six wickets in a Test innings in both England and South Africa. He has now joined Jasprit Bumrah as the only Indian cricketers to have five-wicket hauls in South Africa, England, Australia, and the West Indies.
Ravindra Jadeja, with scores of 89 and 69 not out, has made history as the first player to hit 2,000 runs and take 100 wickets in the World Test Championship.
Yashasvi Jaiswal smashed the record as the quickest Indian to reach 2,000 Test runs, doing it in just 21 matches and surpassing Gavaskar’s previous mark.
Jamie Smith’s 184 not out has become the highest score by an England wicketkeeper in Test matches.
In a historic moment, India, for the first time in 93 years, scored over 1,000 team runs in a Test match, reaching a total of 1,014 runs.
England vs India 3rd Test Match Records
Joe Root has now surpassed Rahul Dravid, grabbing his 211th Test catch and claiming the top spot for most catches ever.
Washington Sundar took 4 wickets for 22 runs, making it the second-best bowling figures by an Indian spinner against England.
England and India both scored exactly 387 runs in their first innings, marking the ninth time in Test cricket history that both teams ended up with the same total.
England vs India 4th Test Match Records
Joe Root matched Kumar Sangakkara after completing his 38th Test century, tying them for fourth place in the all-time list of Test hundreds.
The English batsman Root scored his 12th Test hundred against India, surpassing all other players to become the leading century-maker against the Indian cricket team.
Joe Root's incredible innings of 150 moved him past legends like Kallis, Dravid, and Ponting, making him the second-highest run-scorer in Test cricket history. With a total of 13,409 runs now, he's just behind Sachin Tendulkar.
Jasprit Bumrah bowled one of his most expensive Test spells ever in this match, giving away 112 runs but only managing to pick up two wickets.
Ben Stokes has become just the fourth English player to both hit a century and take five wickets in the same Test. The list includes Tony Greig, Ian Botham, and Gus Atkinson. Notably, Only Botham has achieved this feat multiple times.
Ben Stokes became the third cricketer in history, after Jacques Kallis and Garfield Sobers, to reach 7,000 Test runs and take 200 wickets after this match.
Jasprit Bumrah has now matched Ishant Sharma's record, becoming India’s joint-highest Test wicket-taker in England with 51 wickets.
Shubman Gill joined Gavaskar and Jaiswal as just the third Indian cricketer to score over 700 runs in a single Test series. He has established himself as the first Asian to score more than 650 runs in a series played on English soil.
Shubman Gill scored his fourth century of the series in this match, matching Gavaskar and Kohli’s Indian record for most hundreds in a single series, and also tying Don Bradman’s legendary record for most Test centuries by a captain in a series with four.
England vs India 5th Test Match Records
After reaching 39th Test ton in this match, Joe Root has now completed 13 Test centuries vs India. This is the most by a batter against Team India ahead of Steve Smith with 11 centuries in 2nd place.
Joe Root has now surpassed Kumar Sangakkara total Test century count of 38 with his 39th Test century. He is now behind only Sachin Tendulkar (51), Jacques Kallis (45), and Ricky Ponting (41).
Root’s 13 Test centuries vs India has him level as legendary Indian batter Sunil Gavaskar in 2nd place to score most Test centuries vs an opponent. Sir Don Bradman is number one with 19 Test centuries vs England.
Joe Root has also cemented his name with most Test centuries at home with 24 Test centuries in England, surpassing Mahela Jayawardene, Jacques Kallis and Ricky Ponting with 23 Test centuries.
The Indian cricket team's 6 runs win in the 5th Test is the narrowest winning margin for the Indian team in Test cricket. Previous narrow winning margin for the Indian cricket team in Test cricket was 13 runs victory vs Australia in the year 2004.
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