Stokes and Wood enter record books after starring in Edgbaston win

All the numbers from England's ten-wicket win over West Indies in the Edgbaston Test

28-Jul-2024

Mark Wood is mobbed by his team-mates after claiming a five-wicket haul, England vs West Indies, 3rd Test, 3rd day, Edgbaston, Birmingham, July 28, 2024

3 - Instances of England sweeping West Indies in a Test series of three or more matches, including the latest 3-0 win at home. The previous instances were also at home, in 1928 (3-0) in what was West Indies' first Test series, and in 2004 (4-0).

24 - Balls Ben Stokes needed to complete his half-century in the second innings. It is the fastest recorded fifty for England in Test cricket, bettering Ian Botham's 28-ball effort against India in 1981 in Delhi.

2 - Players with half-centuries off fewer balls than the 24 by Stokes in Test cricket. Misbah-ul-Haq's 21-ball fifty against Australia in 2014 is the fastest, while David Warner's fifty off 23 balls against Pakistan in 2017 is the second-fastest. Jacques Kallis also had a fifty off 24 balls against Zimbabwe in 2005.

3 - Number of times England have swept a three-or-more-match Test series under Stokes. The previous two series wins came in 2022 - 3-0 against New Zealand at home and 3-0 against Pakistan in Pakistan.

Only Ricky Ponting (6) and Steve Waugh (5) have more such wins than Stokes, while Michael Clarke and Virat Kohli also have three each.

54 - England's total at the fall of the fifth wicket in their first innings is the fourth-lowest from which a team has gone on to win by ten wickets or an innings margin.

The lowest for a ten-wicket win was 50 for 5 by Sri Lanka against New Zealand in Galle in 2012.

England were five down for 47 against Pakistan in the Lord's Test in 2010 before winning by an innings, while Australia won by an innings against England in Sydney in 1895 after being five down for 51.

4.2 - Overs England needed to bring up the team fifty in their second innings at Edgbaston. It is now the joint-fastest recorded team fifty in men's Tests, levelling the record they set in the previous Test in Nottingham.

4 - Players with 50-plus scores as an opener and at No. 7 or lower in the same men's Test, including Stokes. The previous three were Andy Sandham against West Indies in 1930, Dilawar Hussain against England in 1934 and Joey Carew against Australia in 1968. All of them opened the batting in the first innings.

21 - Balls Mark Wood took (first wicket to fifth) to pick up five wickets in the second innings. These are the second-fewest number of balls an England bowler has taken to pick up his first five wickets in a Test innings since 2001.

Stuart Broad bowled 17 balls for his first five wickets against Australia in 2015 at Trent Bridge.

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Sampath Bandarupalli is a statistician at ESPNcricinfo