The Anderson-Tendulkar Trophy of 5-match between India and England was a draw. India beat England by 6 runs in the fifth Test. With this, the series ended from 2-2.
This was the first series in Test history in which 9 batters scored more than 400 runs. Indian captain Shubhman Gill became the highest scorer in the series. In this series, Joe became the second top scorer in the Route Test cricket.
Read the top 20 records of Anderson-Tendulkar Trophy …
Oval, fifth Test – India won
1. India's smallest win India's smallest win in terms of run in Test cricket is 6 runs. India beat England by 6 runs in the Oval Test on Monday. India's second smallest win was by 13 runs. The win was against Australia at Wankhede Stadium in 2004.
2. For the first time 9 batters scored 400+ runs in a series For the first time in Test history, 9 batters scored more than 400 runs in a series. Earlier, the record was in the name of West Indies and Australia. In the 1975-76 series, 8 batters scored 400+ runs.
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- Shubhman Gill became the highest scorer in the Test series. He scored 754 runs in 5 games with 4 centuries. He broke Sunil Gavaskar's record, scoring 732 runs in the 6 Test series against the West Indies in 1978.
- Shubhman also became the highest scorer during the Test series in England. In this case, he broke the record of Sir Garfield Sobers of the West Indies. Sobers scored 722 runs in 1966.
4. Jadeja scored the highest 50+ score in a series for India in England Ravindra Jadeja became the highest 50+ runs in a series against England for India. He scored 50+ runs 6 times. Sunil Gavaskar is second on the list, scoring 50+ runs in 1979. Virat Kohli has scored 50 or more runs in 2018 5-5 times and Rishabh Pant 5-5 times in the 2025 series.
Manchester, Fourth Test- Draw
5. The second highest run player in the Root Test Joe has become the second highest scorer in the Route Test cricket. He is now behind the world record of 15,921 runs of Indian giants Sachin Tendulkar. On the third day of the fourth Test, Root left behind Ricky Ponting, Jacques Kallis and Rahul Dravid.
6. Shubhman became the highest run asian player in the England Series Team India's Test captain Shubhman Gill became the highest Test asian player during the series in England. He broke the record of Pakistan's Mohammad Yusuf, who scored 631 runs in 2006.
Gill also became the highest scorer for the Indian Better in the Test series against England. Gill has scored 754 runs in 5 matches during the Anderson-Tendulkar Trophy. At the same time, Yashwashi Jaiswal scored 712 runs in 9 innings of 5 matches in the Anthony-D Mello Trophy during a tour of England in 2024.
7. First captain to score 4 centuries in the Debut Test Series Shubhman Gill became the first captain to score 4 centuries in his first Test series as captain. Earlier, only 5 players- Warwick Armstrong, Don Bradman, Greg Chappell, Virat Kohli and Steve Smith- scored 3-3 centuries in their first Test series as captain.
Three players have the record for scoring the highest century as captain in a Test series. Sir Don Bradman scored four centuries in the domestic series against India in 1947-48.
After this, Sunil Gavaskar scored four centuries against the West Indies while playing in India in 1978-79. Shubhman Gill also scored this feat by scoring four centuries on a foreign pitch against England.
8. India became the highest 350+ score team in the Test series India scored 350 or more in the Test series against England, the highest by any team in the Test series. Earlier, Australia scored 350+ runs 6 times in the series 3 times.
Lord's, Third Test- won England
9 Jasprit Bumrah completed 450 wickets in international cricket, taking Ben Stokes' wickets in the first innings of the Lord's Test.
Bumrah also took 5 wickets in the first innings. This was his 15th 5th wicket in the Test. This was his 13th 5th wicket abroad. Bumrah became an Indian bowler to take the highest 5 wickets at home. He broke Kapil Dev's record, whose name had a record of taking 12 5 wickets.
10. Route became the highest catcher player During the batting of India, Joe Root caught Karun Nair in the slip. With this, he became the highest catcher in the Test as a fielder. Root left behind Rahul Dravid of India, named 210 catches. The route now has 213 catches.
11. Pant equaled Sehwag in the matter of hitting sixes for India in Test Rishabh Pant has equaled Virender Sehwag for the most sixes in the Test for India. There are 90-90 sixes in the name of both. Rohit Sharma is third on the list, 88 sixes.
Birmingham, another Test- India won
12. Two -century in two formats at the age of 25 Captain Shubhman Gill scored a century on the first day in Birmingham, which he converted into a double century the next day. Shubhman, 25, was dismissed for 269 runs. This was his first double century in the Test. He has also scored a double century in the ODI format at the age of 23. Shubhman became the youngest player to score a double century in 2 different formats. He broke Rohit's record, who scored a double century in both formats at the age of 32.
13. Shubhman scored the best score in England Shubhman also became the highest scorer in England. He broke Sunil Gavaskar's 46 -year -old record. Gavaskar scored 221 runs on the Oval Ground in 1979. Apart from these two, only Rahul Dravid has been able to score a double century on England's soil in 2002.
Shubhman also became the highest scorer for India outside Asia. He broke Sachin Tendulkar's record, scoring 241 runs on the Sydney ground in 2004.
Shubhman's double century was also the best score in the Test by the Indian captain. He broke Virat Kohli's record, who played an unbeaten 254 runs against South Africa in Pune in 2019.
14. The fastest Indian to score 2000 Test runs is the fastest Indian Yashwashi Jaiswal scored 87 runs in the first innings and scored 28 in the second innings. With this he completed 2,000 Test runs. For this he only took 40 innings. He became the fastest batter to complete 2,000 Test runs from India. He equaled Rahul Dravid and Virender Sehwag. The two also completed 2,000 Test runs in 40-40 innings.
15 Shubhman Gill scored 269 runs in the first innings and scored 161 in the second innings. He scored 430 in a Test. This is the highest run in a Test by the Indian captain. Gill broke Virat Kohli's record, scoring 293 runs in the match against Sri Lanka in 2017.
Shubhman Gill also became the highest scorer in a Test from India. He broke Sunil Gavaskar's record, who scored 344 against the West Indies in 1971. At that time, Gavaskar scored a century in the first innings and double centuries in the second innings. Gill became the second Indian to score a century in one innings and a double century in the second innings.
Gill was just 27 runs away from the record of scoring the most runs in the Test. England's Graham Gucci is the record of scoring the highest runs in the Test. He scored 456 against India in 1990. He became the only 5th player in the world to score more than 400 runs in auspicious Test.
16. India scored a thousand for the first time India scored 587 runs in the first innings and 427 in the second innings. Team India scored 1014 runs in the match. For the first time in Test history, India crossed the 1000 -run figure. Earlier in 2003, India scored 916 against Australia in the Sydney Test.
17. India's biggest win India beat England by a large margin of 336 runs in Birmingham. This is the biggest win from India's run margin outside the domestic. The team earlier beat West Indies by 318 runs on Antigua Ground in 2016. Under captain Shubhman's captaincy, India also scored the biggest win with the run margin in England. Earlier, the team won the match by 279 runs on the Leeds Ground in 1986.
Headingley, the first Test- won England
18. In the case of centuries Pant left Dhoni behind Rishabh Pant has surpassed MS Dhoni in the highest number of centuries by Indian wicketkeeper in Test cricket. He now has 8 centuries. Dhoni scored 6 centuries in his Test career.
19. The first Indian wicketkeeper to score a century in both innings of Pant Test Rishabh Pant also scored a century in India's second innings in the Headingley Test against England. He became the first Indian wicketkeeper batsman to score a century in both Test matches. Zimbabwe's Andy Flower has earlier achieved this. Flower scored a century in both the innings of the Test against South Africa in 2001. Pant scored 134 in the first innings and 118 in the second innings.
20. India lost despite 5 centuries In the 148 -year history of Test cricket, India became the first team whose players scored five centuries in the same match, yet lost the match. This happened in the Ashes series of 1928-29, when Australia scored four centuries in the Melbourne Test. In the same match, Don Bradman also scored his first Test century (112), but Australia was still lost.
Now read India-England Series Interesting Facts …
- After the year of 2000, only 4 Test series have been played in Test cricket, with five Test matches played for a full 25 days. The first example was the West Indies tour of South Africa in 2001. After this, England traveled to South Africa in 2004-05, with all the Test matches played for all day. This happened for the third time in the Ashes series of 2017-18. There were teams from Australia and England. Now in the Anderson-Tendulkar Trophy played between India and England, all five Test matches were played for a full 5 days.
- For the first time, 3 Indian players scored 500+ runs in a series. Captain Shubhman Gill scored 754, KL Rahul 532 and Ravindra Jadeja scored 516.
- Mohammad Siraj becomes the highest wicket -taker of the series. He equaled Jasprit Bumrah's record of taking the most wickets for India during the Test series in England. Bumrah took 23 wickets in the 2021-22 series, while Siraj took 23 wickets in the 2025 series. After these two, Bhubaneswar Kumar is third, who took 19 wickets in the 2014 series.
- This is the second series in Test history with over 7000 runs. The Indo-England series scored 7187 runs. He first scored 7221 runs in the Ashes series of 1993. Six matches were played in that series.
- Akash Deep became the first Indian Knight Watchman to score more than 3 runs against England on the Oval Maidan. Earlier, Amit Mishra scored 3 runs against England on the same ground in the same field.
Akash Deep scored 66 in the first innings of the Oval Test.
- After 11 years, 600+ runs against India. England scored 669 runs in the Manchester Test. New Zealand last scored 680 against India in Wellington in 2014. At that time, MS Dhoni was India's Test captain, under whose captaincy, Team India gave 600+ runs a maximum of 6 times in one innings.
- Bumrah gave 100+ runs for the first time in the Test. In the first innings of the Manchester Test, 4 Indian bowlers gave 100+ runs. Jasprit Bumrah gave more than 100 runs for the first time in his Test career. Earlier in 2015, 4 Indian bowlers scored 100+ runs against Australia.
Jasprit Bumrah played only 3 Tests in the Anderson-Tendulkar Trophy.
- The series participated in the 19 -century, which is the highest partnership in the series. The 1957-58 Pakistan-West Indies Series and 19th century in the England-West Indies series of 1967-68.
- In this series, a personal score of 50+ runs was scored 50 times. Betters also scored 50+ runs in the 1993 Ashes series.
- If Root scored more than 500 runs in a single Test series for the third time against India, which is a record. Everton Weaks, Zaheer Abbas, Yunus Khan, Gary Sobers and Ricky Ponting have achieved this two or twice.
- Joe Root has surpassed Sri Lanka's Kumar Sangakkara on the list of batters scoring the highest century in Test cricket. They now have 39 centuries. Sachin Tendulkar is at the forefront of the list with 51 Test centuries. After them come Jacques Kallis (45 century) and Ricky Ponting (41 centuries).
- If Root scored his 24th Test century in England. This is the highest century scored by any player in the home test. He has left Ricky Ponting, Jacques Kallis and Mahela Jayawardene with 23-23 centuries.
- If the route also became the highest batter to score a century against India. There are now 13 centuries in his name. He left Australia's Steve Smith behind, who has scored 11 centuries.
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