0 faster Test fifties on English soil than Shardul Thakur’s 31-ball fifty in the first innings. Thakur broke Ian Botham’s record of 32 balls, set in 1986.
0.4 India’s win-loss ratio (2 wins, 5 defeats) at The Oval. Their only other win here was also their first on English soil, in 1971.
0.25 India’s win-loss ratio (9 wins, 36 defeats) on English soil, the worst for any team to have played 5 Test matches.
0.633 India’s win-loss ratio (31 wins, 49 defeats) against England, their worst against any country.
1 instance of India winning two Test matches in the same series on English soil. India had won the 1986 series 2-0, with wins in Lord’s and Headingley.
1.87 England’s win-loss ratio (43 wins, 23 defeats) at The Oval, their third best at any home venue with a 10-match cut-off. Only at Edgbaston (2.8) and Old Trafford (2.066) do they have better ratios.
16 Indians have now taken 150 Test wickets, the most recent being Umesh Yadav (154).
23 Indians have now taken 100 Test wickets, the most recent being Jasprit Bumrah (101).
23 Indians have now scored 3,000 Test runs, the most recent being Rohit Sharma (3,047).
31 wins for India against England, their most against any country, now one more than their 30 wins against Australia.
49 wins for England against India, their fourth most against any country. England have more wins against Australia (110), South Africa (64), and West Indies (51).
166 matches for James Anderson. Only Sachin Tendulkar (200), Ricky Ponting (168), and Steve Waugh (168) have played more, while Jacques Kallis has also played 166.