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Stats Analysis

Cook passes Gavaskar and a rare five-for

Stats highlights from Lord's where Alastair Cook passed Sunil Gavaskar as the highest scoring opener and Yasir Shah took his fifth five-for in Tests

Shiva Jayaraman
15-Jul-2016
ESPNcricinfo Ltd

ESPNcricinfo Ltd

9607 Runs scored by Sunil Gavaskar while opening in Tests - the most by any batsman as an opener before Alastair Cook passed him during his innings of 81. Gavaskar's record stood for nearly 30 years after he retired from Tests in 1987. Graeme Smith is third on this list with 9030 runs. Cook has made 9630 runs at 46.52 as an opener in Tests.
1967 The last time a legspinner took a five-wicket haul in the first innings of a Test at Lord's before Yasir Shah - Bhagwath Chandrasekhar took 5 for 127 in England's first innings on that occasion. Click here for a list of five-fors by spinners in the first innings at Lord's. Yasir's haul is the first five-for at Lord's by a legspinner since Pakistan's Mushtaq Ahmed took 5 for 57 in 1996. Click here for a list of five-wicket hauls by spinners at Lord's.
11 Number of times Yasir has taken at least four wickets in an innings in just 13 Tests. He has taken at least one four-wicket haul (or better) in ten of those 13 Tests. His 5 for 64 in this innings was his fourth five-wicket haul in his last ten innings. Shah has taken 42 wickets in his last ten Test innings at an average of 18.38. In three Tests against England, Shah has taken 20 wickets at an average of 19.35 with at least three wickets in each of the five innings he has bowled in.
5 Five-wicket hauls by Yasir in just 13 Tests. Among Pakistan bowlers only Waqar Younis (10) took fewer Tests to take his fifth five-for. Fazal Mahmood, Danish Kaneria, Mohammad Asif also took 13 Tests to take five such hauls. Shah has taken 81 wickets at an excellent average of 23.46.
30 Fifty-plus scores in Tests by Cook as England's captain - equals the highest. Mike Atherton also made 30 such scores while leading England in Tests. Cook also became only the eighth Test batsman to complete 4000 runs as captain in Tests. Smith leads this list with 8659 runs.
0 Five-wicket hauls by Chris Woakes from nine Tests before this. Woakes' best before this was the 3 for 9 he took against Sri Lanka at Chester-le-Street in England's last series. This was Woakes' 17th five-wicket haul in first-class cricket and his first at Lord's. Woakes has taken 398 first-class wickets at an average of 24.95.
20.77 Woakes' bowling average in first-class cricket this year - the best he has averaged in any calendar year. He has taken 40 wickets in 2016 including two five wicket hauls, one of which was his career-best 9 for 36 against Durham at Edgbaston recently.
8 Number of England bowlers who had taken their maiden Test five-for at Lord's before Woakes. The previous England bowler to do it was Graham Onions, who took 5 for 38 on debut against West Indies in 2009.
1185 Runs by David Gower in Tests against Pakistan - the highest by an England batsman before Cook passed him in this match. Cook has made 1260 runs at an average of 48.46 against Pakistan including four hundreds and five fifties.
7.3 Overs England took to reach 50 in this innings; this was their quickest fifty in first innings in Tests since 2002. Overall, England have got their team fifty in fewer balls on only other three occasions during this period. Their fastest came against Sri Lanka at Old Trafford in 2002, when they chased down the target of 50 in just 30 balls.

Shiva Jayaraman is a senior sub-editor (stats) at ESPNcricinfo.com @shiva_cricinfo