On the first day of the first Test against Pakistan in Rawalpindi, England scored a record-breaking 506/4, shattering a number of previous benchmarks.
England set numerous records on the first day of their first Test match in Pakistan in 17 years, including the highest runs ever scored on the opening day of a Test match. Here are a few records that were thrown out on Rawalpindi’s first day. England set numerous records on the first day of their first Test match in Pakistan in 17 years, including the highest runs ever scored on the opening day of a Test match. Here are a few records that were thrown out on Rawalpindi’s first day.
Most runs on day 1 of a Test match
The 506 runs scored by England on the first day of the Test match set a new record for the most runs ever scored on the first day of a Test match. They outperformed the 494 runs scored by Australia in the first Test of the series in Sydney against South Africa in 1910. Australia followed with a score of 494/6. On the opening day of the 2012 Test in Adelaide, Australia scored 482/5 against South Africa in 86.5 overs, with a scoring rate of 5.57. With 15 overs remaining from the day’s alloted 75, England scored 506 runs, for an astounding daytime run rate of 6.75.
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Day 1, Four centurions
Harry Brook and Ollie Pope, in addition to openers Ben Duckett and Zak Crawley, also completed hundreds, with all but one of them reaching the three-figure milestone with a strike rate of over 100. There have never been four centurions on the opening day of a Test match.
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Record-breaking opening stand
The greatest run rate for an opening partnership of 200 or more runs in Test cricket was achieved by Zak Crawley and Ben Duckett, who hammered an opening partnership of 233 in 35.4 overs at a scoring rate of 6.53. There have only been three double-century opening partnerships that averaged more over six runs per over overall: Graeme Smith and AB de Villiers, Joe Burns and David Warner (6.29 runs per over against New Zealand in 2015), and David Warner and David Warner (6.22 runs per over v Zimbabwe in 2005).
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Six fours in an over
England’s Harry Brook smashed six fours in an over off debutant Saud Shakeel, making it just the fifth instance of a batter hitting six fours in one over of a Test match. Sandeep Patil v Bob Willis in 1982, Chris Gayle v Matthew Hoggard in 2004, Ramnaresh Sarwan v Munaf Patel in 2006 and Sanath Jayasuriya vs James Anderson in 2007 were the other instances.
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