Rishabh Pant: 134 (178)
7 – Pant’s Test hundreds in 76 innings surpassed MS Dhoni’s six (in 144 innings) to become the most by an Indian designated wicketkeeper in Test cricket. Pant’s third Test century in England tied Les Ames in the West Indies and Andy Flower in India for the most by a designated wicketkeeper in an away nation.
3 – Pant reached his Test century with a six for the third time, this time off an English spinner (Shoaib Bashir today, Joe Root in Ahmedabad in 2021, and Adil Rashid at the Oval in 2018). Only Sachin Tendulkar has done it more frequently for India—six times—while Rohit Sharma has done it three times.
Shubman Gill: 147 (227)
5 – Gill became the fifth Indian player to lead the team and score a century in his first Test match. After Vijay Hazare’s 164 against England in Delhi in 1951, his 147 is the second-highest score on his first captaincy appearance for India.
Hundreds on India’s first captaincy debut
| Player | Scores | Vs | Venue | Season |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vijay Hazare | 164* | Eng | Delhi | 1951/52 |
| Shubman Gill | 147 | Eng | Leeds | 2025 |
| Virat Kohli | 115 & 141 | Aus | Adelaide | 2014/15 |
| Sunil Gavaskar | 116 & 35* | NZ | Auckland | 1975/76 |
| Dilip Vengsarkar | 10 & 102 | WI | Delhi | 1987/88 |
12.7% of balls Gill left unattended during his knock—the highest of his six Test cricket scores of 100 or more. In addition, it’s Gill’s first Test century outside from the subcontinent.
Gill’s highest total in a Test knock was 58 runs, which he scored off England seamers stepping down the wicket or off the front foot. He hit the most boundaries in an innings with ten of his sixteen, all off the front foot.
Yashasvi Jaiswal: 101 (159)
5 – Jaiswal joined Vijay Manjrekar, Sandeep Patil, Sourav Ganguly, and Murali Vijay as the only other Indian players to score a century in their first Test innings in England. After scoring 171 in the West Indies and 161 in Australia, Jaiswal has now reached 100 in his first Test appearance in three of the four visiting nations he has played in.
Of his 101 runs, Jaiswal scored 11 on the leg side, which was by far the fewest of his five Test hundreds. In all four of his prior three-figure knocks, the on-side run percentage was at least 35%.
4-This was the fourth time in a Test match outside of Asia that three or more Indian batters scored hundreds in the same innings. The earliest of these occurred in Sydney in 1986, followed by Leeds in 2002 and Gros Islet in 2006.
The last time England saw three or more visiting hitters reach hundreds in a single innings was in 2012. After Hashim Amla top-scored with an undefeated 311, Jacques Kallis (182*) and Graeme Smith (131) both took three figures.
