Sibley's slow show and England's second-longest partnership in 20 years

All the slow-baked stats from Dom Sibley and Ben Stokes’ mammoth stand at Old Trafford

Bharath Seervi17-Jul-2020568 – Number of balls the Dom Sibley-Ben Stokes partnership lasted, which is England’s second-longest partnership, in terms of balls, since 2000. The longest is 574 balls between Jonathan Trott and Stuart Broad against Pakistan at Lord’s in 2010. It is also the longest against West Indies in this period, edging past 525-ball stand between Shaun Marsh and Adam Voges at Hobart in 2015.1975 – The last time two England batsmen faced 350-plus balls in a Test innings, before Sibley (372 balls) and Stokes (356) doing so in this innings. Mike Denness and Keith Fletcher faced 350-plus balls in the same innings twice in 1975 – against Australia at the MCG and versus New Zealand at Auckland.ESPNcricinfo Ltd260 – The partnership between Sibley and Stokes, was the second-highest by a pair for any wicket in Tests at Old Trafford. The only higher stand than this was 267 between Michael Vaughan and Graham Thorpe against Pakistan in 2001. The stand is also England’s sixth-highest for any wicket against West Indies and best since Andrew Strauss and Robert Key put together 303 runs at Lord’s in 2004.10 – Centuries for Stokes in Tests, all coming at Nos. 5 and 6. He became the fourth England player to score 10 or more centuries at No. 5 and below. Ian Bell has the most in those positions (16 hundreds), followed by Ian Botham (14) and Thorpe (11). Stokes has 4184 runs at No. 5 and below, which is third-most for England. Since Stokes’ debut, Ajinkya Rahane is the only other batsman to have scored 10 centuries at No. 5 and below and Stokes has the most runs there. He is also only the fifth allrounder to score 10-plus centuries and take 150-plus wickets.235 – Previously the most balls faced by Stokes in a Test innings, against India at Rajkot in 2016. His highest score of 258 came from just 198 balls. This innings of 176 runs at a strike rate of 49.43 was Stokes’ lowest of his 10 hundreds.32.25 – Sibley’s strike rate in his knock of 120 off 372 balls, is the fourth-lowest in 100-plus scores in England (where balls faced information is available). He completed his century in 312 balls, the slowest century in Tests anywhere since Azhar Ali made one in 319 balls in Dubai in 2012.!function(){“use strict”;window.addEventListener(“message”,(function(a){if(void 0!==a.data[“datawrapper-height”])for(var e in a.data[“datawrapper-height”]){var t=document.getElementById(“datawrapper-chart-“+e)||document.querySelector(“iframe[src*='”+e+”‘]”);t&&(t.style.height=a.data[“datawrapper-height”][e]+”px”)}}))}();