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Adil Rashid's unique debut

Stats highlights from a frenetic final day in Abu Dhabi, when 15 wickets fell for 276 runs

S Rajesh
S Rajesh
17-Oct-2015
18.40 The average runs per wicket on the last day of the Test (15 wickets fell for 276); on the first four days, the average was 68.25 (16 wickets for 1092 runs).
49.36 The average runs per wicket in this Test, which is the third-highest among all Tests in the UAE. After the first four days, the average was a whopping 68.25, but it dropped dramatically thanks to Pakistan's second-innings collapse. Had one more wicket fallen today, it would have been only the second instance in Test history of the last day producing at least as many wickets as the first four put together (among all Tests in which at least 100 overs were bowled on the first four days). The only other such instance was in the last Test of the 2013 Ashes, when 13 wickets fell on the first four days (the fourth day was completely washed out), and 17 fell on the final day.
1 Adil Rashid's was the first instance of a bowler taking a five-for in the second innings after going wicketless for 100-plus runs in the first innings on Test debut. The closest any bowler had come previously was also from England: in Brisbane in 1970, Ken Shuttleworth, a right-arm fast bowler, took 5 for 47 in Australia's second innings after finishing with figures of 0 for 81 in the first.
9 Total instances of debutant bowlers taking a five-for in the second innings after going wicketless in the first. The last such instance was in 1996 by Lance Klusener, who had figures of 0 for 75 in the first innings and then returned with 8 for 64 in the second, against India in Kolkata.
4 The number of England spinners who have taken a five-for on Test debut in the last 60 years - Rashid, Peter Such, Nick Cook and Phil Edmonds. Overall, he is the 13th England spinner to take a five-for on Test debut.
56 The number of years since an England legspinner returned better figures in a Test. That achievement rests with Tommy Greenhough, a Lancastrian who played only four Tests but who took 5 for 35 against India in 1959.
14 Runs added by Pakistan's last four wickets in their second innings - they lost their sixth wicket at 159, and were bowled out for 173. Only three times have their lost their last four for fewer runs in a Test against England, with the lowest being nine, at Lord's in 1978.
34 Instances of both teams scoring 500-plus runs in the first innings of a Test; only 4 have gone on to produce a decisive result, while 30 have been drawn.
206 Overs bowled by Pakistan in England's first innings, which is their seventh-highest in Test history. The last time they bowled more overs was in 1980 in Faisalabad against Australia, when they bowled 211 overs in Australia's total of 617.
6 Instances of a batsman scoring a double-century and a duck in the same Test. Shoaib Malik is the second Pakistan batsman in the list, after Imtiaz Ahmed, who scored 209 and 0 v NZ in Lahore in 1955. The last time this happened was in 2003, when Ricky Ponting scored 242 and 0 versus India in Adelaide. Malik's 245 is also the highest score by a batsman who got a duck in the other innings of the same Test.

S Rajesh is stats editor of ESPNcricinfo. @rajeshstats