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

568 - 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.

260 - 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.

122.41 - Sibley's average balls faced per dismissals in his career of eight Tests. It is the highest in the first eight Tests among all England openers who debuted in the last 30 years. Andrew Strauss had an average balls per dismissal of 111 balls in his first eight Tests. Sibley has faced 1469 balls in 13 innings with one not out.

2010 - The last time an England batsman apart from Alastair Cook played two Test innings of 300-plus balls in a calendar year before Sibley doing it in 2020. Jonathan Trott played three innings of 300-plus balls in the year 2010. The last England opener, other than Cook, to play multiple 300-plus ball innings in a year was Michael Atherton in 2000.

521 - Number of consecutive balls bowled by Kemar Roach without taking a wicket before dismissing Stokes and Chris Woakes off successive balls. His last two wickets before these dismissals were also off consecutive balls - getting out KL Rahul and Virat Kohli (for a golden duck) at Kingston in August last year.