Stats - Jonny Bairstow's quick century and England's record chase
Boundaries and dropped catches galore
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Sampath Bandarupalli is a statistician at ESPNcricinfo