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Stats Analysis

A Lord's record and Cook's marathon

Stats highlights from a magnificent day of batting by England at Lord's

S Rajesh
S Rajesh
24-May-2015
Alastair Cook takes the applause for a battling century, England v New Zealand, 1st Investec Test, Lord's, 4th day, May 24, 2015

Alastair Cook made his 25th Test hundred as an opener; only Sunil Gavaskar, Matthew Hayden and Graeme Smith have more  •  PA Photos

85 Balls taken by Ben Stokes for his second Test hundred. It is the fastest in a Lord's Test, beating Mohammad Azharuddin's record of 87 balls in 1990. It's also the second-fastest ever for England in Tests (in matches where balls-faced data was recorded). The only quicker hundred was by Gilbert Jessop in 1902, who scored one off 76 balls against Australia at The Oval.
7 The number of times Cook has faced more than 300 deliveries in a Test innings. The last of those instances, before today, was in December 2012, when he scored 190 off 377 balls against India in Kolkata. This is also his eighth score of 150 or more; only three England batsmen - Wally Hammond, Len Hutton and Kevin Pietersen - have got more 150-plus scores in Tests.
25 Number of Test hundreds that Cook has scored as opener. He is fourth in the all-time list, after Sunil Gavaskar (33), Matthew Hayden (30) and Graeme Smith (27). Cook's overall tally of 27 Test hundreds is already the highest among England batsmen.
24 Runs scored by Cook during his 132-run partnership with Stokes. Cook scored 24 off 67, while Stokes made 101 off 92 at the other end.
67 The number of balls left alone by Cook during his innings. Of the 92 balls that Stokes faced, he left alone 18 deliveries.
91 Runs scored by England in the first 13 overs against the second new ball. Stokes made 71 of those, from 49 balls, while Cook made 13 from 29.
5 Instances of No. 6 batsmen who've made a century in the second innings of a Lord's Test. The last one to do so, before Stokes, was Garry Sobers in 1966.
94.07 Joe Root's batting average since the beginning of 2014, the highest among batsmen who've played at least ten innings during this period. Steven Smith is next with an average of 83.37, while Kane Williamson averages 80.70 in these 17 months.
85.88 Root's Test average at Lord's: he has two hundreds and four fifties in ten innings. His average is the highest among batsmen who've played at least ten Test innings at Lord's.
16 Cook's average in his 11 most recent Test innings at Lord's, before this one. His highest during this period was 32, against New Zealand at Lord's in 2013.
1 Number of century partnerships in Tests between Cook and Root - this was their first in 16 innings. Their previous best was 99, against India at the Ageas Bowl last year.
35 The number of times teams have been set a fourth-innings target of 300 or more in a Test at Lord's. Only once has a team won - when West Indies made 344 for 1 in 1984 - while they've lost 21 times and drawn 13 times.

S Rajesh is stats editor of ESPNcricinfo. @rajeshstats