England creates history by playing 1,000 test matches
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Edgbaston
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England cricket is known as the inventor of cricket, has created a history in Test cricket today by being the first cricket playing nation to play 1,000 Test matches. England cricket team took the field to play first test match of the 5 match test series against India at Edgbaston.
England will be playing this historic test match against India which has played 523 Test matches so far, out of which India has won 145 test matches. England is at 5th spot in ICC test rankings while India is on the top of the table. Even if India lost all the 5 test matches of the series India’s number 1 test spot will be secure.
England played their 1st International Test match way back on 15th March 1877. The test match was played against Australia in Malborne Cricket Stadium. Australia won that match by 45 runs. Surprisingly, a test match to celebrate 100 years of test cricket was played between these two teams and in that match England again lost by 45 runs.
In 999 Test matches which England cricket team played they have won 357 matches and lost 297 matches. They manged to draw 345 matches of it. After England, Australia has played 812 matches of which they have won 383 matches which are the highest by any team. So far 12 nations have played test matches. The newest addition in the test playing nation’s club was Afghanistan. Which played their 1st match against India, which ended inside 2 days.
For a team with such abiding history, it may come across as a slight surprise that opener Alastair Cook is the only England batsman to cross the 10,000-run mark in Tests. The left-hander’s collection of 12,145 runs is 3245 clear of Graham Gooch’s tally.
Among his countrymen, Cook is the only active batsman in the list of top ten run-scorers. The likes of Alec Stewart, David Gower, Kevin Pietersen and Geoffrey Boycott are the other England batsmen to eclipse the threshold of 8000 runs.
Top 10 Test run-scorers for England
#1 Alastair Cook – 12,145 runs from 156 matches
#2 Graham Gooch – 8900 runs from 118 matches
#3 Alec Stewart – 8463 runs from 133 matches
#4 David Gower – 8231 runs from 117 matches
#5 Kevin Pietersen – 8181 runs from 104 matches
#6 Geoffrey Boycott – 8114 runs from 108 matches
#7 Mike Atherton – 7728 runs from 115 matches
#8 Ian Bell – 7727 runs from 118 matches
#9 Colin Cowdrey – 7624 runs from 114 matches
#10 Wally Hammond – 7249 runs from 85 matches
With a whopping 540 wickets from just 138 matches, swing king James Anderson leads England’s all-time bowling tally. His new-ball partner Stuart Broad is next best at 417 scalps. While the former needs just 24 more wickets to become the most prolific fast bowler in Test history, the latter requires only five more scalps to enter the international top ten.
Ian Botham, Bob Willis and Fred Trueman round off the top five in England’s leading wicket-takers. The versatile Derek Underwood, at times, even classified as left-arm medium, and Graeme Swann are the only spinners in the top ten.
Top 10 Test wicket-takers for England
#1 James Anderson – 540 wickets from 138 matches
#2 Stuart Broad – 417 wickets from 118 matches
#3 Ian Botham – 383 wickets from 102 matches
#4 Bob Willis – 325 wickets from 90 matches
#5 Fred Trueman – 307 wickets from 67 matches
#6 Derek Underwood – 297 wickets from 86 matches
#7 Graeme Swann – 255 wickets from 60 matches
#8 Brian Statham – 252 wickets from 70 matches
#9 Matthew Hoggard – 248 wickets from 67 matches
#10 Alec Bedser – 236 wickets from 51 matches
(*Note: All statistics are accurate as of 30th July, 2018)
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