With a thrilling six-run win at The Oval on Monday, India ended its England tour by drawing the Test series at 2-2. During this long series, a significant number of individual milestones were achieved and several team records were broken.
Here is the complete list of records set during Anderson-Tendulkar Trophy 2025:
1 – Shubman Gill (754) broke Sunil Gavaskar’s record (732 against West Indies in 1978) of most runs by an Indian captain in a Test series. Gill’s effort is second only to the 810 runs scored by Australian captain Don Bradman during the 1936-37 Ashes series.
2 – Gill (754) fell just short of going past Gavaskar’s record (774 against West Indies in 1970-71) of most runs by an Indian in a Test series.
3 – Ben Stokes completed 7,000 runs in Test cricket — only the third player to record 7,000 runs and 200 wickets in Tests. Only Jacques Kallis and Garfield Sobers had achieved the feat before Stokes.
4 – With his five-wicket hauls at Leeds and Lord’s, Jasprit Bumrah now holds the record for most fifers by an Indian bowler in England. The record previously belonged to Lala Amarnath, Kapil Dev, B Chandrasekhar, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Vinoo Mankad, Chetan Sharma, Ishant Sharma, Mohammad Nissar and Surendranath as all of them had two five-wicket hauls in England.
4 – With his tons at Leeds and Lord’s, KL Rahul now holds the record for most centuries by an Indian opener in England.
4 – For only the fourth time this century, all five Tests in a series went to the final day with other instances including the England tour of South Africa (2004-05), South Africa tour of West Indies (2001) and the 2017-18 Ashes in Australia.
5 – Gill became just the fifth Indian Test batter to register a century on his captaincy debut during the first Test at Headingley, Leeds.
6 – With his knock of 269 in Birmingham, Gill became the sixth Indian captain to score a double hundred after MAK Pataudi, Gavaskar, Sachin Tendulkar, MS Dhoni and Virat Kohli.
6 – India’s six-run win over England at The Oval is its narrowest margin of victory by runs in a Test, going past its 13-run win against Australia in Mumbai in 2004.
6 – Gill (754), KL Rahul (532) and Ravindra Jadeja (516) became just the sixth trio in Test history to pass 500 runs in the same series for a single team.
7 – Yashasvi Jaiswal became the seventh Indian opener to register a hundred in England and Australia, joining an exclusive list which includes Vinoo Mankad, Gavaskar, Ravi Shastri, Virender Sehwag, M. Vijay and KL Rahul.
8 – With his twin tons at Leeds, Rishabh Pant went past Dhoni (six) for most centuries in the longest format by an Indian wicketkeeper as he took his tally to eight.
13 – With his five-wicket haul at Lord’s, Bumrah broke Kapil’s record (12) of most fifers by an Indian bowler in away Tests.
13 – Joe Root now holds the record of most Test centuries against India. On the all-time list of most Test tons by a batter against a single team, he is equal with Gavaskar (13 against West Indies) and only behind Bradman (19 against England).
21 – A total of 21 centuries were scored during this five-match contest, going level with a Test series held between Australia and West Indies in 1955. Out of 21, India scored 12 which is also joint-most for a team in a single series.
23 – Mohammed Siraj matched Bumrah’s (23 wickets in 2021-22) record of most wickets for India in a Test series in England.
39 – With his three centuries in the series, Joe Root went past Sri Lanka’s Kumar Sangakkara (38) to take the fourth spot on the list of batters with most Test tons. Only Tendulkar (51), Kallis (45) and Ricky Ponting (41) have more.
45 – The 45 bowled dismissals were the most in any men’s Test series since 1984, and the most in a series held in England since 1976.
51 – Bumrah equalled Ishant Sharma’s all-time Indian record of 51 wickets in England with his 14 scalps in the series.
184 – Jamie Smith scored 184 in the first innings of the second Test in Birmingham, the highest score by an England wicketkeeper in the longest format. He went past Alec Stewart’s record of 173 against New Zealand in 1997.
185.3 – Siraj recorded the second-most overs bowled by an Indian pacer in a series since June 2002, falling only behind Bumrah (187 overs on England tour in 2021-22).
213 – Root went past Rahul Dravid (210) for the all-time record of most catches in Test cricket. He achieved the feat as he collected a difficult grab of Karun Nair at first slip during the second day of the third Test at Lord’s
269 – With his incredible knock in Birmingham, Gill broke Kohli’s (200 against West Indies in North Sound in 2016) record for the highest score by an Indian captain in away Tests, as well as his record (254 not out against South Africa in Pune in 2019) of the highest score by an Indian Test skipper. It is also the highest score by an Indian in England, a record previously held by Gavaskar (221 at The Oval in 1979).
336 – India’s 336-run victory at Edgbaston is its biggest by runs in an away Test, going past its previous record of 318 against West Indies in 2019.
430 – With his knocks of 269 and 161 in Birmingham, Gill broke Kohli’s record (293) for most runs by an Indian captain in a Test. He also surpassed Gavaskar’s record (344) for the highest match aggregate by an Indian in a Test.
3,809 – India scored 3,809 runs across five matches this series, surpassing its previous record of 3,270 runs, achieved during a six-match Test series against West Indies at home in 1978-79. In the overall list of the highest run tallies by a team during a Test series, India sits second. Australia leads the list with 3,877 runs, which it amassed during the 1989 Ashes series in England.
3,383 – Root became the first batter to score 3,000 or more Test runs against India during the series. Former Australian captain Ponting has the next-best record, having scored 2,555 runs in 51 innings against India.
7,187 – The five-match contest had the second-highest runs aggregate recorded in a Test series, only bettered by the six-Test 1993 Ashes in the UK (7221).
13,543 – Root went past Dravid (13,288), Kallis (13,289) and Ponting (13,378) to take the second spot on the list of batters with most runs in Test cricket. Only Tendulkar (15,921) is ahead.
