England vs Pakistan, 2018: 2nd Test, Day 1 – Statistical Highlights

England bowlers put up a display of their experience and expertise with the moving ball at Headingley to diminish the Pakistan side for just 174 on the first day. The visitors elected to bat first as the track didn’t have a grass covering like the usual pitch at Leeds.

James Anderson, Stuart Broad and Chris Woakes took three wickets apiece to keep Pakistan down to a low score. The Asian side was reeling at 79/7 before Shadab Khan’s fifty helped them add 95 runs for the last three wickets. England finished the day on 106/2 while they were 68 runs behind Pakistan’s first innings total.

Here we look at all the stats and numbers recorded during the first day’s play of the Leeds Test:

1 – For the first time in England’s Test history, two players aged less than 21 featured in a Test match. Debutant Sam Curran will turn 20 on Sunday while the debutant from the previous game Dominic Bess will turn 21 in July. In the 998 Test matches that the English have played before this, only in 59 games they had a player aged less than 21.

1 – Sam is the first left-arm pacer to make his Test debut for England since 2002. The last left-arm pacer to make his Test debut for England was Ryan Sidebottom in 2001.

2 – Pakistan have won the toss only twice in the nine Test matches they played since the start of 2017. They elected to bowl first after winning the toss in last year’s Kingston Test match against Windies.

5 – Shadab became only the 5th player to score at least one 50+ in three consecutive Test matches before turning 20. Sachin Tendulkar did that in five consecutive Tests as a teenager while Shivnarine Chanderpaul and Umar Akmal scored at least one fifty and more in their first four Tests. New Zealand’s Vic Pollard also had fifty-plus scores in three consecutive Tests in his teens.

11 – Usman Salahuddin made his Test debut in his 100th first-class match. He became the 11th player to make Test debut in the 100th first-class match. The last player to do that was New Zealand’s Kruger van Wyk who made his Test debut in 2012 against India.

12 – Tom Curran and Sam Curran are the 12th pair of brothers to represent England in Test cricket. Adam and Ben Hollioake in 1990s was the last pair of brothers for England in Test format. Both these pairs belong to the County cl, b Surrey.

19y 363d – At the age of 19 years and 363 days, Sam Curran became the 7th youngest player to feature in a Test match for England. He is also the 4th youngest player to feature in a Test match on home soil.

154 – Alastair Cook now has featured in 154 consecutive Test matches. He now holds the record for most consecutive Test matches for a player surpassing Allan Border’s 153 for Australia. Cook featured in 156 out of the 157 Tests played by England since his Test debut.