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Australia's 43 run win against England under dramatic and controversial circumstances in the Lord's Test gave the visitors a crucial 2-0
The individual performances of players from both teams also helped some of them get into the record books.Did you know that Steve Smith is
the second fastest to 9000 Test runs - a milestone he completed in the Lord's Test? Or that Ben Stokes holds the record of most sixes ever
hit in an innings in an Ashes Test?TimesofIndia.com here lists some of the most mind boggling Ashes statistics after the Lord's Test: #
After 75 years, England (325 - 327) have lost a home Test (by 43 runs) despite scoring 300-plus in each innings of a Test match - the last
instance being the 1948 Leeds Test against Australia (458 - 404 for three) which they lost by seven wickets
England had managed 496 and 368 for eight declared in that match.# Having hit three sixes off successive balls off Keshav Maharaj (S.Africa)
at The Oval in 2017, Ben Stokes has now become the first batter in the history of Test Cricket to accomplish the feat of a hat-trick of
During his 155, he was on 82 when he hit three sixes off Cameron Green to reach his hundred in the just concluded Lord's Test.(Getty
Images)# Ben Stokes' second hundred as captain is his 13th in Tests
His tally includes four against Australia
His only other Test century as captain remains 103 vs South Africa at Manchester in 2022
He has recorded his highest score vs Australia (155), obliterating the 135 not out at Leeds in 2019.# Stokes' outstanding innings is the
highest by a number six batter or lower while chasing in the fourth innings in Tests, bettering Adam Gilchrist's 149 not out vs Pakistan at
Hobart in November 1999.(Getty Images)# Stokes has recorded 118 sixes in 94 Tests, extending his Test record
The next highest is New Zealand's Brendon McCullum - 107 in 101 Tests.# During his fantastic knock of 155, Stokes hit nine sixes - a record
by an England captain in Tests
His tally is the highest by any captain in the fourth innings of a Test match.# Stokes has set a new record for most sixes in an innings in
He bettered his record of hitting eight sixes during his match-winning unbeaten knock of 135 at Leeds in 2019.# Steven Smith took 99 Tests
to become the first batter to complete 9,000 runs within the first 100 Tests of career
He has become the fourth Australian batter after Ricky Ponting (13378), Allan Border (11174) and Steve Waugh (10927) to complete 9000 runs
or more in Tests.(Getty Images)# 174 innings taken by Smith are the second fastest by any player for this milestone after only the 172
innings taken by Kumar Sangakkara.# Steven Smith has registered 32 hundreds in Tests - the joint-second highest for Australia
Only Ricky Ponting has registered more hundreds (41 in 168 Tests)
Steve Waugh posted 32 hundreds in 168 Tests.# Steven Smith has received his 13th Man of the Match award in Tests - his eighth vs England
He holds the record for getting most MOM awards in The Ashes
The second place is shared by three players with five awards each - Ian Botham, Ricky Ponting and Shane Warne.(Getty Images)# After eight
years, Smith has been adjudged the MOM in a Lord's Test - his first being for posting 215 - 58 in 2015.# Mitchell Starc has bagged 316
wickets at 27.64 runs apiece in 79 Tests, establishing a record for most wickets by a left-arm bowler for Australia in Tests, eclipsing
Mitchell Johnson's tally of 313 at 28.40 in 73 Tests
Starc's tally includes 13 instances of five-wicket hauls and two instances of ten wickets or more in a match.# Ben Duckett (98 - 83) became
the eighth England opener after Herbert Sutcliffe twice), Geoff Boycott (twice), Arthur Shrewsbury, Albert Ward, Len Hutton, Graham Gooch -
Mike Atherton to post 75-plus in each innings of a Test match vs Australia.# Nathan Lyon has played 100 successive Tests between August 2013
and June 2023 to become the first specialist bowler and the sixth player to accomplish the feat for a team in Test annals
He has joined Alastair Cook (159), Allan Border (153), Mark Waugh (107), Sunil Gavaskar (106) and Brendon McCullum (101).(Getty Images)#
Usman Khawaja has become the first batter to complete 300 runs (ave 75.00), including a hundred and two fifties, in four innings, at a
strike rate of 8.70 in the first two Tests of the Ashes series.# Khawaja, with 841 runs at an average of 64.69, including three hundreds and
four fifties, in eight matches, is the top run-scorer in Tests this year - 205 runs more than the next highest - 636 (ave 53.00) in seven
Tests by Travis Head.# Stuart Broad has performed exceptionally well this year, capturing 27 Wickets at an average of 24.81 in five Tests to
become the first speedster to take 25 wickets or more in Tests
The top four wicket-takers in Tests in 2023 are Nathan Lyon(38 in eight Tests), Broad (27 in five), Ravindra Jadeja (26 in five) and
Ravichandran Ashwin (25 in four).(Stats Courtesy: Rajesh Kumar)
