Some numbers
1 – India scored 300 only once in their eight innings
2 – Number of times which India bowled England out.
3 – India‘s margin of defeat in the third Test (an innings and 242 runs) was their third-worst ever.
4 – England posted the four highest innings totals in the series, passing 450 on each occasion.
4- England declared four times
80 – England claimed all 80 Indian wickets during the series, versus just 47 for India.
158 – Lowest innings total, by India in the 2nd Test at Trent Bridge.
710 – Highest innings score (for 7 declared), by England in the 3rd Test at Edgbaston. It was their third-highest Test total ever, and their highest against India.
Batting
5 – England batsmen posted the five highest individual scores of the series – one by Alastair Cook, and two each by Kevin Pietersen and Ian Bell. All three recorded double centuries.
6- Despite batting two times fewer (six innings versus eight), England had seven of the top ten run-scorers in the series.
294 – Cook had the highest individual score of the series, 294 at Edgbaston. As a team, India exceeded this total just once.
461 - Rahul Dravid was India’s top batsman with 461 runs, at an average of 76.83.
533 - Pietersen was the leading run-scorer in the series, with 533 runs at an average of 106.60.
Dravid was India’s leading run scorer
1- Only century by an indian was scored by Dravid
2 – Virender Sehwag recorded a king pair at Edgbaston – out first ball in both innings.
3 – Dravid was India’s only century-maker, registering tons in the first, third and fourth Tests.
3 – Dravid also became only the third Indian batsman to carry his bat in a Test innings (after Sunil Gavaskar and Sachin Tendulkar), scoring an unbeaten 146 in India’s first innings at The Oval. He had to come straight back out again as England enforced the follow-on.
3 – Number of England batsmen who scored at least 300 runs in the series (Pietersen, Bell, Cook) versus just one for India (Dravid).
3 - Eoin Morgan was dismissed for a third-ball duck in England’s first innings of both the first and second Tests. He made up for it by scoring a century in the first innings of the third Test, however.
7 – England batsmen recorded seven centuries to India’s three.
8 – Number of batsmen who averaged 40 or more in the series. With the exception of Dravid, all were English.
12 - There were 12 century partnerships during the series, 10 of them by English batsmen.
34.12 – Batting average of Sachin Tendulkar, well below his career average of 56.25. He fell nine runs short of what would have been his 100th international century at The Oval.
59.76 – England’s average runs per wicket during the series, more than double India’s average of 25.55.
70 - Pietersen scored more boundaries than any other batsman in the series (68 fours, two sixes).
350 - The third wicket stand of 350 between Bell and Pietersen at The Oval was the highest partnership of the series.
Bowling
>Stuart Broad was the top wicket-taker and also claimed a hat-trick
2 – Bowlers captured six wickets in a single innings on two occasions, both Englishmen: Broad and Swann.
5 – Number of times a bowler took at least five wickets in an innings. Four of these were by an English bowler (Broad, Bresnan, Jimmy Anderson, Graeme Swann).
6 – Number of bowlers who took 10 or more wickets in the series. Four were English, including the top two wicket-takers, Broad and Tim Bresnan (16).
25 – Number of wickets taken by Stuart Broad, the most on either side, and ten more than the leading Indian Praveen Kumar. (Broad also added 182 runs with the bat.)
Kumar averaged better than a wicket every five overs
1 – Hat-tricks in the series, by Broad at Trent Bridge. It was the first time a bowler has ever taken a hat-trick in a Test against India.
3 – Three of England’s bowlers (Bresnan, Broad, Anderson) averaged fewer than 30 runs per wicket. Only one Indian (Kumar) did.
29.5 – Kumar took a wicket every 29.5 balls, the best strike rate among regular bowlers in the series. Bresnan and Broad were not far behind, with impressive strike rates of a wicket every 34.3 and 36.3 balls respectively.
58.18 – Other than Kumar, among India’s specialist bowlers Ishant Sharma had the second-best bowling average – his 11 wickets cost a whopping 58.18 runs apiece.
143.5 – Harbhajan Singh, for so long India’s primary spin threat, took just two wickets in his two matches at an average of 143.5.
Prior took 16 catches and added a hundred with the bat
1 – England are now the number one country in Test cricket.
5 – England’s ranking 12 months ago.
5 – Cook and Andrew Strauss led among other fielders with five catches each.
6 – This was India’s sixth series defeat by four or more matches, and their first since their tour of Australia in 1991/92.
7 – England’s 4-0 victory marks only the seventh time in their history they have won a series by four matches or more.
11 – India have now lost 11 out of 16 Tests at Lord’s.
17 – England wicketkeeper Matt Prior claimed 17 dismissals in the series (16 catches, one stumping). His counterpart M S Dhoni took 13 catches.
