India has bounced back in the five-match Test series on the English soil as they won the third Test at Trent Bridge (Nottingham) by 203 runs after starting the Test match from 2-0 behind in the series.

English captain Joe Root decided to field first after winning the toss. India managed to score 329 runs in their first innings while England replied only 161 runs in their first innings as they trailed by 168 runs at the end of the first innings clashes.

In the second innings, India skipper Virat Kohli declared the innings on 352/7 as England needed to chase 521 runs to win this Test match. However, they failed to reach that mammoth target as they only managed to score 317 runs before getting bundled out on the fifth day morning.

India won this Test match by 203 runs and reduces their trail by the 2-1 margin.

Brief Scores: India – 329 (Virat Kohli 97, Ajinkya Rahane 81; James Anderson 3/64) & 352/7 decl. (Virat Kohli 103, Cheteshwar Pujara 72; Adil Rashid 3/101)

England – 161 (Jos Buttler 39, Alastair Cook 29; Hardik Pandya 5/28) & 317 (Jos Buttler 106, Ben Stokes 62; Jasprit Bumrah 5/85)

Result – India won by 203 runs

Some important stats of the Trent Bridge Test between England and India

i) Indian wicketkeeper-batsman Rishabh Pant made his Test debut at the age of just 20 years and 318 days.

• Fifth youngest Indian wicketkeeper to make the Test debut.

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ii) Facing just his second ball in Test career, Rishabh Pant gets off the mark with a sixer.

• First Indian cricketer to get off the mark the Test career with a sixer.
• 12th international cricketer to get off the mark the Test career with a sixer.

iii) England was bundled out for just 161 runs in their first innings.

• Lowest completed Test innings total for England against India at Trent Bridge (Nottingham). Their previous lowest one was 198 in 2007.

iv) England was bundled out in the first innings on just 38.2 overs.

• The second fastest (according to no.of overs in an innings) for India to bowl out England in a Test innings. The record is England had been bundled out in just 26.2 overs (102 runs) at Mumbai in 1981.

v) Indian medium-pacer Hardik Pandya completed his five-wicket haul in just 29 balls during England’s first innings.

• The second fewest balls bowled by an Indian bowler to complete the five-wicket haul in a Test innings. The record holder is off-spinner Harbhajan Singh who took only 27 balls to complete the five-wicket haul in a Test innings against West Indies at Jamaica in 2006.

Also read: The Day 2 stats of Trent Bridge Test

vi) Indian medium-pacer Hardik Pandya had the bowling figure of 6-1-28-5.

• Best bowling figure in a Test innings by an Indian bowler at Trent Bridge (Nottingham). The previous record was 5/75 by Zaheer Khan in 2007.

vii) Making his Test debut at the age of just 20 years and 318 days, Indian wicketkeeper Rishabh Pant took five catches during England’s first innings of this Test match.

• Youngest wicketkeeper to take five catches in a Test innings. The previous record holder was Chris Read (England) who had achieved this feat at the age of 20 years and 325 days against New Zealand at Birmingham in 1999.

viii) Indian debutant wicketkeeper Rishabh Pant took five catches during England’s first innings of this Test match.

• Only the second Indian wicketkeeper to take five catches in the debutant Test innings. Yajurvindra Singh had also achieved the same record during his debutant Test against England at Bengaluru in 1977.

ix) Indian skipper Virat Kohli has scored 1,834 runs as an Indian Test captain outside the Indian soil.

• Most runs scored by an Indian Test skipper outside the Indian soil. The previous record holder was Sourav Ganguly who had scored 1,693 runs as Test captain outside the Indian soil.

x) India put a 521-run target to win for England in the fourth innings.

• The highest winning target has been set by India for England in a Test match. The previous record target was 500 run at The Oval in 2007 which resulted in a draw.

Also read: The Day 3 stats of Trent Bridge Test 

xi) All the top-five batsmen from the both team scored in double digits in all four innings of the Test match.

• First time in Test cricket history when all the top five batsmen from both teams scored in double digits in all four innings of a Test match.

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xii) India won this Test match by 203 runs.

• Third largest Test victory (by runs) for India against England. The top two in this list is – winning by 279 runs (at Leeds in 1986) and winning by 246 runs (at Vishakhapatnam in 2016).