Mohammed Siraj bowls more than 1,100 deliveries to be leading wicket-taker; Shubman Gill top of run-scorers list

India dominated the batting charts for the series while Siraj led the way among the bowlers.

BOWLING STATS

A whopping 1113 deliveries. Mohammed Siraj was a machine. From Leeds to London, Siraj was the only pacer across both teams to last all five Test matches. He bowled 185.3 overs, and finished as the leading wicket-taker with 23 wickets. Siraj’s wickets came at a slightly expensive average of 32.43 but that is to be expected in a high-scoring series mostly played on flat wickets against an aggressive batting unit.

Josh Tongue had an interesting series too, not always the most accurate bowler but picking up a clutch of wickets, finishing 2nd with 19 wickets in three Tests. Ben Stokes, who would have dearly loved to be on the field at The Oval, but had to miss out because of the workload he took on himself, finished third with 17 wickets. Jasprit Bumrah missed the two matches that India won but was still among the top wicket-takers, picking up 14 from the three matches and five innings that he bowled.

Drawing level with Bumrah on the final day was Prasidh Krishna, who had an expensive series conceding at 4.94 runs per over, but the wickets he picked in the end were critical in India fighting back, as he finished with 14 wickets too.

BATTING STATS

That Shubman Gill marathon effort in the second Test where he scored 430 runs would alone be 7th best on the run-scoring chart. He finished with 754 runs in 10 innings at an average of 754 and a highest score of 269 – a new personal best that he broke once already in the series after starting well in Leeds.

The second best was Joe Root, who went past legends like Rahul Dravid, Jacques Kallis, and Ricky Ponting in one innings and is now only behind the great man, Sachin Tendulkar for run tally in Test cricket. Root’s 537 runs came at an average of 67.12 with three centuries to his name. KL Rahul too had a personal milestone of a series, with 532 runs at the top of the order, scoring two centuries.

India’s third man with 500+ in the series was arguably the most consistent of the batters, with five half centuries and a century at No 6 or lower: Ravindra Jadeja, who finished with 516 runs.

Harry Brook reminded the world why he is England’s next big thing, with two centuries and a 99, finishing with 481 runs. He, however, would have loved add a few more when England were cruising towards a 3-1 win.