Stats - Jonny Bairstow's quick century and England's record chase
Boundaries and dropped catches galore
Sampath Bandarupalli
14-Jun-2022
Trent Boult fist-bumps Jonny Bairstow after dismissing him • Getty Images
The Bairstow-Stokes blitz
77 Balls needed for Jonny Bairstow's century, the second-fastest fourth-innings hundred in Test cricket. The fastest came off 76 balls by Gilbert Jessop against Australia in 1902 at The Oval. Bairstow's hundred is also the second quickest in terms of balls for England in Tests, behind Jessop's 76-ball effort.
77 Balls needed for Jonny Bairstow's century, the second-fastest fourth-innings hundred in Test cricket. The fastest came off 76 balls by Gilbert Jessop against Australia in 1902 at The Oval. Bairstow's hundred is also the second quickest in terms of balls for England in Tests, behind Jessop's 76-ball effort.
8.87 Run rate during the 179-run partnership between Jonny Bairstow and Ben Stokes, the third-fastest century stand in Tests in terms of run rate (where balls data is available). It is also the quickest partnership by run rate in Test cricket, that lasted 20-plus overs.
10.00 England's run-rate in the final session of the match. They needed 160 runs in 38 overs but took only 16 to score those. Their scoring rate of 10 is the highest for a team in a single session of a Test match since 2016 (where a team batted 15 or more overs).
The previous highest run rate was 8.29 by New Zealand during the post-lunch session on the first day of the Christchurch Test against Australia in 2016. New Zealand scored 199 runs in only 24 overs, while losing three wickets.
England's record chase
5.98 England's run rate during the 299-run chase, the fourth-highest for any team in a Test innings where they scored 250-plus runs. The highest is 6.80 by South Africa when they scored 340 for three in 50 overs against Zimbabwe in the 2005 Cape Town Test.
5.98 England's run rate during the 299-run chase, the fourth-highest for any team in a Test innings where they scored 250-plus runs. The highest is 6.80 by South Africa when they scored 340 for three in 50 overs against Zimbabwe in the 2005 Cape Town Test.
0 Number of 200-plus targets successfully chased in Test cricket, faster than England's run rate of 5.98 in Nottingham. The previous fastest 200-plus chase in Tests was by England, who chased 204-run target against South Africa in 1948, scoring at 5.77 runs an over.
299 The target chased by England in this match is the highest successful Test chase at Trent Bridge. England broke their own record, having chased 284 in 2004 against New Zealand. The 299-run chase is also the third-highest by any team against New Zealand in Tests and the fifth-highest for England.
1 Previous instance of a team chasing down a 250-plus target twice in a Test series before England in the ongoing series. The other instance was recorded by England when they chased 282 and 284 respectively at Lord's and Nottingham against New Zealand in 2004.
Boundaries galore and high-scoring rate
1 The Nottingham Test between England and New Zealand became the first-ever Test match with 1000-plus boundary runs. The previous most boundary runs in a Test was 976 runs during the Sydney Test in 2004 between Australia and India.
1 The Nottingham Test between England and New Zealand became the first-ever Test match with 1000-plus boundary runs. The previous most boundary runs in a Test was 976 runs during the Sydney Test in 2004 between Australia and India.
249 Number of boundaries hit by England and New Zealand - 225 fours and 24 sixes. These are the most boundary hits in a Test match, surpassing the 242 during the Australia-India Test match in 2004 in Sydney. Although, the 225 fours at Trent Bridge are the second-most in a match, behind only the 238 fours in the 2004 Sydney Test.
4.10 Scoring rate in this match is the highest for a Test match (Where 2100-plus balls were bowled). The previous highest run rate in a Test was 4.08 during the Test between England and India in 1990 at Lord's.
1675 Runs scored by both teams in this match, the eighth-highest aggregate in Tests and the highest in the last 15 years. It is also the second-highest match aggregate for a Test match in England, behind the 1723 runs in the 1948 Leeds Test between England and Australia.
837 runs in vain
837 New Zealand's match aggregate at Trent Bridge is the second-most runs scored by a team in a Test defeat. The highest aggregate to lose a Test is 861 runs by England (496 all-out and 365 for 8) against Australia in the 1948 Leeds Test.
837 New Zealand's match aggregate at Trent Bridge is the second-most runs scored by a team in a Test defeat. The highest aggregate to lose a Test is 861 runs by England (496 all-out and 365 for 8) against Australia in the 1948 Leeds Test.
6 Test matches with a result where both teams scored 500-plus runs in their first innings, including the Nottingham Test. In all those six matches, the team conceding the first-innings lead ended up on the winning side.
Butter fingers
11 Catches dropped by both the teams in this Test match. In the last four years, only two Test matches had higher number of dropped chances - 12 in the 2021 Harare Test between Zimbabwe and Bangladesh, and 12 dropped catches during the Chattogram Test between Bangladesh and Sri Lanka earlier in May.
11 Catches dropped by both the teams in this Test match. In the last four years, only two Test matches had higher number of dropped chances - 12 in the 2021 Harare Test between Zimbabwe and Bangladesh, and 12 dropped catches during the Chattogram Test between Bangladesh and Sri Lanka earlier in May.
371 Runs scored by England batters after reprieves in this Test. Both centurions in England's first innings - Ollie Pope (37 to 145) and Joe Root (27 to 176) - scored more than 100 runs after been dropped by the New Zealand fielders.
Sampath Bandarupalli is a statistician at ESPNcricinfo