Siraj Breaks Kapil's Lord's Record

Rajneesh Gupta lists the numbers from the fascinating final day of the Lord's Test.

IMAGE: Mohammad Siraj bowls Jimmy Anderson and India have won an incredible victory at Lord's, August 16, 2021. Photograph: Mike Hewitt/Getty Images

89 Runs added by Mohammed Shami and Jasprit Bumrah for the ninth wicket without being separated -- India's highest ninth wicket partnership in England, beating the 66-run partnership between Kapil Dev and Madan Lal also at Lord's in 1982.

The 89-run partnership between Shami and Bumrah is also India's highest involving number 9 and 10 batsmen in a Test outside India. Kiran More and Venkatapathy Raju had added 77 runs against Australia at Melbourne in 1991-1992.

8 Number of times India have dismissed both openers for a duck in the same innings. This was the first such instance when India inflicted this fate on England openers.

Both openers getting out for a duck vs India

Players	For	Venue	Season
John Holt-Conrad Hunte	West Indies	Kanpur	1958-1959
Alvin Greenidge-Basil Williams	West Indies	Mumbai	1978-1979
Gordon Greenidge-Desmond Haynes	West Indies	Port-of-Spain	1982-1983
Grant Flower-Gavin Rennie	Zimbabwe	Delhi	2000-2001
Tamim Iqbal-Imrul Kayes	Bangladesh	Mirpur	2009-2010
Dimuth Karunaratne-Kaushal Silva	Sri Lanka	Galle	2015
Kraigg Brathwaite-Kieran Powell	West Indies	Hyderabad	2018-2019
Rory Burns-Dom Sibley	England	Lord's	2021

0 Number of times England suffered the ignominy of losing both the openers for a duck at Lord's before Monday. They had done this with the opponents on three occasions.

311 Number of wickets taken by Ishant Sharma in Test matches, now level with Zaheer Khan. Only Kapil Dev (434) is ahead of him as an Indian seamer.

5 Number of players to bag a King Pair (out first ball in both innings) in a Test against India -- the second from England. Interestingly, Sam Curran is the first player to suffer this fate at Lord's.

Players bagging a King Pair versus India

Player	Team	Venue	Season
Gary Troup	New Zealand	Wellington	1980/81
Adam Gilchrist	Australia	Calcutta	2000/01
Javed Omar	Bangladesh	Mirpur	2006/07
James Anderson	England	Visakhapatnam	2016/17
Sam Curran	England	Lord's	2021

37 Number of Tests won by Virat Kohli -- the fourth most by any captain. Virat went past Clive Lloyd's tally of 36 Test wins.

Captains with most Test wins

	Team	Mts	Won	Lost	Drawn	Win%
Graeme Smith	South Africa	109	53	29	27	48.62
Ricky Ponting	Australia	77	48	16	13	62.34
Steve Waugh	Australia	57	41	9	7	71.93
Virat Kohli	India	63	37	15	11	58.73
Clive Lloyd	West Indies	74	36	12	26	48.65

120 England's total in the second innings -- their lowest ever against an Asian side at Lord's.

8/126 Mohammed Siraj's match figures -- the best for an Indian bowler in a Test at Lord's, beating Kapil Dev's 8/168 in 1982.

IMAGE: Jasprit Bumrah celebrates dismissing England Captain Joe Root on Day 5 of the second Test at Lord's, August 16, 2021. Photograph: Gareth Copley/Getty Images

33 The highest individual score for England in the second innings (by Joe Root). Jasprit Bumrah alone scored an unbeaten 34 in India's second innings!

1 First time England lost a Test in which Joe Root scored a hundred.

2 Number of Indian captains to win more than one Test in England -- Kapil Dev (in 1986) and Virat Kohli (one in 2018 and one in 2021).

8 India's Test wins in England. Three of them have come at Lord's.

India's Test wins in England

Season	Venue	Margin	Captain
1971	The Oval	4 wickets	Ajit Wadekar
1986	Lord's	5 wickets	Kapil Dev
1986	Leeds	279 runs	Kapil Dev
2002	Leeds	Innings and 46 runs	Sourav Ganguly
2007	Nottingham	7 wickets	Rahul Dravid
2014	Lord's	95 runs	M S Dhoni
2018	Nottingham	203 runs	Virat Kohli
2021	Lord's	151 runs	Virat Kohli

0 Number of Tests lost by India defending a target of 250 or more since 1988. They won 41 and drew remaining 18 such matches.

1 First time India won a Test the day after Independence Day.

India in England, 2021

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