England v West Indies, Test series 2017 – Statistical Preview

England, who have been unbeaten over the last few years at home, will host West Indies who have dropped a lot in terms of Test credentials in recent times to be placed at No.8 in ICC rankings. This will be the first series between the two sides in two years and the first in England since 2012. The hosts are on a high coming into this contest after beating South Africa in a Test series (3-1) at home for the first time in 20 years.

Here we look at all the key stats and numbers ahead of the Test series.

1 – England will be playing their maiden day/night Test match at Edgbaston. Their first ever day/night ODI was also against West Indies in 1979 in Sydney.

1 – The Edgbaston Test will be the first day/night Test match on England soil. The first ever day/night game (ODI) in England was played in 2000 at Bristol which included West Indies and Zimbabwe.

3 – Number of Test wins for West Indies since 2000 against England. The Windies side won their recent most encounter at Bridgetown in 2015.

3 – Number of Test matches West Indies have won since 2015. They played 21 Tests in this period and lost 14 games. Only Bangladesh (2) and Zimbabwe (0) have won fewer Tests since 2015. Remaining seven team won over 10 matches in this period.

53 – Wickets James Anderson has picked up against West Indies in Test cricket. He is the only bowler among the current players to take 50+ wickets in England-West Indies Tests.

151 – England and West Indies faced each other in 151 Test matches; the 2nd most number of Tests between the two sides. England and Australia played against each other in 341 Tests.

487 – James Anderson has taken 487 wickets in his Test career so far. He needs 13 more wickets to become the 6th player to take 500 Test wickets.

983 – Runs Jason Holder has scored in Test cricket so far; he needs to score 17 more to complete 1000 Test runs.

1435 – Runs Alastair Cook has scored against West Indies in Tests. He is the only batsman to score over 1000 runs among the current players in England-West Indies Tests.

1988 – West Indies last managed to win a Test series on England soil way back in 1988. Since then, they featured in 7 Test series’ against England in England with the home side winning five series and two ending in a draw.

2000 – The last instance when West Indies won a Test match in England was back in 2000 at Birmingham, the venue of the first Test of this series. Their last victory before that game in England had also come at Birmingham in 1995.

9959 – Runs Jonny Bairstow has scored in his first-class career so far. He is 41 runs away from joining into elite list of players with 10000 first-class runs.