At the end of the opening day of the 1^st Test between India and England at Saurashtra Cricket Association Stadium (Rajkot), England is in commanding position. After winning the toss, England decided to bat first. At the stumps of opening day, England was at 311/4.

Brief Scores: England – 311/4 (Joe Root 124, Moeen Ali 99*, Ravichandran Ashwin 2/108)

Here are some statistical highlights of day 1 of the 1^st Test:

On this opening day, England won the toss and decided to bat first. Last time England won a Test match in India after winning the toss was in 1977 at Chennai where they had won by 200 runs against India after winning the toss and deciding to bat first. Since then England has won 13 tosses in the Test matches on Indian soil before this Test, where they have lost 4 Tests and drawn the other 9 Tests.

Before this Test, England had won 22 Test tosses on the Indian soil but in only 3 out of those, England had achieved victories.

On this day, 19 years and 297 days old English opener – Haseeb Hameed – made international cricket debut. Hameed became the youngest English opener to make debut in international cricket. The previous record was held by Sir Leonard Hutton who made Test debut as an opener for England at the age of 21 years and 3 days.

England batsman Joe Root completed 1,000 Test runs in this calendar year. After his fellow wicketkeeper-batsman Jonny Bairstow, Root became the second Test cricketer to score 1,000+ runs in 2016.

Joe Root scored a brilliant century on the opening day of the first Test. Root scored 124 runs before getting dismissed. It was Root’s first Test century in Asia. Root’s previous highest Test score in Asia was 88 against Pakistan in Dubai in 2015.

Also with this 124-runs knock, Root became the most no. of 50+ Test scores in 2016. This knock was Root’s 9^th 50+ Test innings in 2016 while Bairstow is in the second position in this list with 8 50+ Test knock in this calendar year.

English batsmen Joe Root and Moeen Ali put on a brilliant and 179-run partnership for the 4^th wicket of England’s innings. That partnership was the fifth highest 4^th wicket Test partnership for England on Indian soil.