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Zak Crawley's 267 second-highest maiden century by an England batsman

Zak Crawley brings up his 250 AFP

267 - Zak Crawley's score, the second-highest maiden century by an England batsman and the seventh-highest overall. Only Tip Foster's 287 is a higher maiden hundred by an England player than Crawley's 267. Karun Nair's 303 not out is the only higher maiden century in the last 25 years.

4 - Number of batsmen to make a 250-plus score in Tests at a younger age than Crawley, who was 22 years, 200 days at the start of this match. The four batsmen are Garry Sobers, Don Bradman, Len Hutton and Graeme Smith. Bradman and Smith had made two 250-plus scores before turning 23.

3 - Crawley is the third-youngest England batsman to score a Test double century. Hutton and David Gower are the two England batsmen to score a double-hundred at an younger age than Crawley.

1 - Number of higher individual scores by England No. 3 batsmen in Tests than Crawley's 267. Wally Hammond's 336 not out is the only bigger innings at No. 3.

359 - The partnership between Crawley and Jos Buttler, is the joint fourth-highest fifth-wicket partnership in Test history. For England, there have been only five bigger partnerships for any wicket in Tests than the 359 between Crawley-Buttler. Crawley scored at a strike rate of 70.17 (200 runs off 285 balls) in the partnership whereas Buttler scored at just 49.64 (138 off 278).

1 - Crawley's 267 is the highest innings in Tests to end by stumping. The previous highest score for someone who was stumped out was Seymour Nurse's 258 in 1969.

28.54 - Crawley's Test career average in seven Tests, coming into this match. He had made 314 runs in 11 innings with three fifties. After his massive 267-run innings, his average has shot up to 48.41. His first-class career average was just 30.82 before this Test with three hundreds and a highest score of 168.