Last Man Standing!!!

India and England bagan their 42 day long 5 match test series at Trent Bridge. It was the first test both sides are playing after the ICC has been reconstituted with India, England and Australia at the helm of affairs. It was a test match in which the headlines were created by the bowlers, but rather surprisingly for their batting. Mohammed Shami, Bhuvaneshwar Kumar and James Anderson all made merry on a docile and life-less track. Out of the 26 century partnerships for the 10^th wicket in tests, 12 came since 2000 indicating how seriously tail enders take care of their batting.  Let us look into some of the batting records broken by the bowlers during the test match.

Highest 10^th wicket stands in tests

Players	Runs	vs	Venue	Date
Joe Root/ James Anderson (Eng)	198	Ind	Trent Bridge	13 Jul 2014
Phili Hughes/ Ashton Agar (Aus)	163	Eng	Trent Bridge	11 Jul 2013
RO Collinge/ BF Hastings (NZ)	151	Pak	Auckland	18 Feb 1973
A Mahmood/ M Ahmed (Pak)	151	SA	Rawalpindi	07 Oct 1997
Denesh Ramdin/ Tino Best (WI)	143	Eng	Edgbaston	10 Jun 2012

Anderson scored a career best 81.

Highest scores by #11 in tests

Player	Runs	vs	Venue	Date
Ashton Agar (Aus)	98	Eng	Trent Bridge	11 Jul 2013
Tino Best (WI)	95	Eng	Edgbaston	10 Jun 2012
James Anderson (Eng)	81	Ind	Trent Bridge	13 Jul 2014
Zaheer Khan (Ind)	75	Bang	Dhaka	12 Dec 2004
Richard Collinge (NZ)	68*	Pak	Auckland	18 Feb 1973

# Ashton Agar’s 98 came on his debut innings.

Most tests before maiden half century in tests

Player	Tests	Innings	Score	Vs	Venue	Year
Glenn McGrath	102	115	61	NZ	Gabba	2004
James Anderson	95	131	81	Ind	Trent Bridge	2014
M Muralitharan	64	85	67	Ind	Kandy	2001
Jason Gillespie	59	77	54*	NZ	Gabba	2004
BishanSingh Bedi	47	71	50*	NZ	Kanpur	1976

# Glenn McGrath & Jason Gillespie did it in the same test match.

# Players without any 50s batting over 100 innings in tests – Courtney Walsh (185 innings); Bob Willis (128); Waqar Younis (120); Makhaya Ntini (116); Derek Underwood (116); Lance Gibbs (109); Chris Martin (104)

Highest aggregate by 10^th wicket partnerships in a test

Tests	Venue	Year	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	Total
England – India	Trent Bridge	2014	111	198			309*
England – Aus	Trent Bridge	2013	2	163	0	65	230
NZ – Pakistan	Auckland	1973	48	151	29	-	228
England – Aus	Sydney	1924	62	24	127	7	220
England – WI	Kennington Oval	1966	45	128	21	-	194

# England – India, Trent Bridge, 2014 is the only instance of both sides registering a 10^th wicket stand of 100 or more runs.

Bhuvi & Shami - rescued India from 346/9 to 457

Highest run aggregate by #11’s in a test

Teams	Inngs	Batsmen	Runs	Venue	Year
Eng - Ind	2	M Shami; J Anderson	132	Trent Bridge	2014
Eng Aus	4	J Anderson; A Agar;J Pattinson	124	Trent Bridge	2013
NZ - Pak	3	R Collinge; P Sajad	100	Auckland	1973
Eng - WI	1	Tino Best	95	Edgbaston	2012
Ind – Bang	3	Zaheer Khan; Mashrafe Mortaza	82	Dhaka	2004

# M Shami and J Anderson are the only #11’s in a test to score 50s in the same test.

Most balls faced by #11 in a test

Player	Balls	vs	Venue	Date
Rodney Hogg (Aus)	160	WI	Georgetown	03 Mar 1984
John Snow (Eng)	146	WI	Kennington Oval	20 Aug 1966
Trent Boult (NZ)	137	Bang	Chittagong	10 Oct 2013
Danny Morrison (NZ)	133	Eng	Auckland	28 Jan 1997
James Anderson(Eng)	130	Ind	Trent Bridge	13 Jul 2014

      

         

Most boundaries hit by #11 in a test

Player	4s	vs	Venue	Date
James Anderson(Eng)	17	Ind	Trent Bridge	13 Jul 2014
Tino Best(WI)	14	Eng	Edgbaston	10 Jun 2012
Ashton Agar (Aus)	12	Eng	Trent Bridge	11 Jul 2013
Wasim Bari (Pak)	10	WI	Bridgetown	22 Feb 1977
Zaheer Khan (Ind)	10	Bang	Dhaka	12 Dec 2004

# Shane Shillingford struck most 6s for a #11 batsman – 5 against NZ at Kingston on 9 June 2014.

Instances of 2 #11 scoring 25+ in the same test

Batsman 1	Score	Batsman 2	Score	Venue	Year
Wilfred Rhodes (Eng)	29	Tibby Cotter(Aus)	34	Sydney	1904
Angus Fraser (Eng)	32	M Muralitharan (SL)	30	Kennington Oval	1998
T Panangara (Zim)	32	M Muralitharan(SL)	26	Harare	2004
M Muralitharan (SL)	33	Monty Panesar(Eng)	26	Trent Bridge	2006
Ashton Agar (Aus)	98	James Pattinson(Aus)	25*	Trent Bridge	2013
M Shami (Ind)	51*	James Anderson(Eng)	81	Trent Bridge	2014

Highest scores by Indian openers on the first day of a tour

Player	Runs	vs	Venue	Country	Date
Murali Vijay	122*	Eng	Trent Bridge	England	10 Jul 2014
Madhav Apte	64	WI	Port of Spain	West Indies	21 Jan 1953
Dinesh Karthik	56	Bang	Chittagong	Bangladesh	18 May 2007
Virender Sehwag	52	Bang	Chittagong	Bangladesh	17 Jan 2010

Ashton Agar - scored a stroke filled 98 on debut

Other important facts and figures from the match

# Mohammed Shami is the 3^rd Indian #11 to score a test 50 after Ghulam Ahmed (50 vs Pak at Delhi, 1952) & Zaheer Khan (75 vs Bang at Dhaka, 2004).

# James Anderson’s 81 is the highest score by an English #11 beating John Snow’s 59*vs WI at Oval in 1966.

# Bhuvaneshwar Kumar is the 10^th Indian to score a fifty and take a 5-fer in an overseas test (58 & 5/58). Kapil Dev did it thrice.

# James Anderson is the 2^nd #11 to score a 50 against India after Wes Hall (50* at Port of Spain in 1962).

# Mohammed Shami is the only Indian to be involved in two 75+ stands for the 10^th wicket.

# Mohammed Shami(51*) is the highest score by an Indian #11 against England. (Previous : 35 by S Sreesanth at The Oval in 2007).

# MS Dhoni was  run-out for the first time in a test outside Asia.

# MS Dhoni now has 153 innings outside Asia in all internationals without scoring a century. Among batsman from sub-continent only Chaminda Vaas has batted in more innings – 173 outside Asia century less.

# Murali Vijay scored the 100^th test century at Trent Bridge. It is 9^th venue overall and 5^th in England in which 100 or more centuries have been scored. First century at Trent Bridge was scored by Archie MacLaren (140) for England against Australia in 1905.

# This is the 3^rd time in tests, 2 among  India’s batsmen from 9-11 scoring 50s. Other occasions being  Nana Joshi  & Ramkant Desai vs Pakistan in 1952 and Kiran More & Atul Wassan vs NZ in 1990.