All-innings-fifties: In an interesting and black swan event, for the first time in the glittering antiquity of Test cricket, four batsmen have been dismissed for exactly fifty runs and it happened at one batsman an innings. It is a very unique piece of record and is hardly seen across the cricketing roster.
As Shardul Thakur managed to bag the big wicket of Rory Burns, finally snuffing out the resistance forged by the English openers, he became the fourth batsman in the list, following the footsteps of Virat Kohli in the first innings, Chris Woakes in the second and Rishabh Pant in the third.
Going by the preceding records, spreading the aura of half-centuries in exact figures has happened more than twice but didn’t reach until the fourth.
The last two times this was made possible
The last couple of times three batters managed to get out for exactly 50 runs were in 1995 and 2014. In a match-up between Pakistan and Sri Lanka in 1995 at Faisalabad, Inzamam-ul-Haq got out for 50 in the first innings while Saeed Anwar and Moin Khan got out for the fifties in the second innings.
The 2014 incident involved New Zealand and Pakistan at Sharjah. As the New Zealand batters made merry against an ailing Pakistani bowling attack, it was Ross Taylor, Corey Anderson and Tim Southee who managed to score a half-century each in the first innings of New Zealand.
A highlight of the fifties scored by the Indian and the English players
These are very rare feats and you would hardly come across them in international cricket. A user on Twitter highlighted the fact that it is the first time in Test cricket that four batters have managed to get out exactly for 50 runs and to add more value to the stat, it has been uniformly pervaded across all the four innings, unlike the last ones.
India claimed a remarkable victory over England at the Oval as the bowlers pulled off a phenomenal showdown to confine England within a modest 210.
1st innings : Virat Kohli
2nd innings: Chris Woakes
3rd innings: Rishabh Pant
4th innings: Rory BurnsIt's the first time ever in Test cricket that a batsman has been dismissed for 50 in each of the four innings of a Test!#ENGvIND #ENGvsIND
— Rajneesh Gupta (@rgcricket) September 6, 2021
