Here are the records set and broken in the 2025 Test series between England and India that ended in a 2-2 draw.
India beat England by six runs at The Oval to level the series. This is now the narrowest margin of victory for India in Test cricket in terms of runs, eclipsing the 13-run triumph over Australia at Mumbai in 2004/05.
The Oval Test match was also the first time India won the fifth or sixth Test of a series away from home. It took them 17 attempts to get there. Their only sixth Test in an overseas series, at Karachi in 1982/83, had also ended in a draw.
Mohammed Siraj picked the final wicket to finish the series with 23 wickets, the joint-most for India in England in a Test series. Jasprit Bumrah had also taken 23 wickets in the series split across 2021 and 2022. Siraj’s 46 wickets in England are the third-most for an Indian, after Bumrah and Ishant Sharma (51 apiece).
Siraj finished with 9-190, the best match figures by an Indian at The Oval, eclipsing Bhagwat Chandrasekhar’s 8-114 in the famous 1971 triumph. These are also the fifth-best match figures by an Indian in England. Prasidh Krishna’s 8-188 is at 10th place.
Siraj’s 9-190 are the best match figures at The Oval by any bowler – English or touring – since Shane Warne’s 12-246 in 2005. Among visiting fast bowlers, Wasim Akram was the last to take nine wickets in a Test here (9-103 in 1992).
Siraj (9-190), Gus Atkinson (8-160), Josh Tongue (8-180), and Prasidh (8-188) set the first instance of four bowlers taking eight wickets in a Test at The Oval.
Siraj, Prasidh, and Akash Deep shared all 10 wickets in the fourth innings, marking only the fifth instance of Indian fast bowlers sharing all wickets in the fourth innings of a Test.
The 463 balls are the fourth-most bowled by Indian fast bowlers in the fourth innings of a Test, but the second-most where only three bowlers were used. Javagal Srinath, Ashish Nehra, and Zaheer Khan had bowled 505 balls at Port of Spain in 2002.
Dhruv Jurel already held the Indian record for the longest career where his team has won every Test. Here, he extended his streak to five Tests. The world record belongs to Eldine Baptiste (10 Tests, 10 wins).
Earlier in the innings, Joe Root got his 39th Test hundred, which took him past Kumar Sangakkara’s 38. Only Sachin Tendulkar (51), Jacques Kallis (45), and Ricky Ponting (41) have more.
Root and Harry Brook set the seventh instance of two batters scoring hundreds in the fourth innings of a Test but their team ending up on the losing side. In only two of these (England against Australia at Sydney in 1924/25, India against England at Old Trafford in 1959) did another batter score a fifty in the same innings, as Ben Duckett did here.
England set only the third instance of a team losing after crossing 300 with only three wickets down in the fourth innings of a Test. Chasing 382, Australia had collapsed from 305-3 to 310 against Pakistan at Melbourne in 1978/79, while the West Indies went from 303-3 to 387 all out while in pursuit of 475, against Australia at Bridgetown in 2007/08.
England were, in fact, 332-4, the second-highest four-wickets-down total in a failed chase. Chasing 463, England had collapsed from 346-4 to 417 at Melbourne in 1976/77.
Root and Brook added 195 for the fourth wicket, which is now the second-highest stand in the fourth innings in a defeat, after the 204 put on by KL Rahul and Rishabh Pant at the same venue in 2018.
Earlier in the Test match, Shubman Gill had gone past Garry Sobers’ world record of most runs in a Test series by a touring captain (722). Gill’s 754 runs are now the second-most by a captain irrespective of venue, after Don Bradman’s 810 in the home Ashes of 1936/37.
Gill’s 754 is also the second-highest series aggregate by an Indian, after Sunil Gavaskar’s 774 in the 1970/71 series in the West Indies.
Ravindra Jadeja’s 1,158 runs are now the third-most for India in England, after Sachin Tendulkar (1,575) and Rahul Dravid (1,376). His 10 fifty-plus scores are also their joint second-most (after Tendulkar’s 12).
In fact, among touring cricketers, only Garry Sobers (1,820 and 62) has more runs and wickets than Jadeja (1,158 and 34) in any country.
The 7,187 runs produced in the series is also a new record for a Test series of five or fewer matches, eclipsing the 6,826 from the 1928/29 Ashes in Australia. The only series with more runs (7,221) is the six-Test 1993 Ashes in England.
The 21 hundreds in the series are the joint-most (tied with the West Indies Australia series of 1955), as are the 50 fifty-plus scores (tied with the 1993 Ashes).
