Edgbaston Cricket Ground Records: Edgbaston Test records most runs and highest wickets in Birmingham Tests

Edgbaston Cricket Ground Records: Birmingham will be hosting a Test match after more than 12 months tomorrow.

The fifth Test match of England vs India Test series from last year will be played in Birmingham from tomorrow. It would be a rare occasion when the last match of a series will be played after a gap of 10 months.

While Playing XIs tend to change in such a time interval, both England and India’s captains and team managements have also changed on this particular occasion. The prospect of these two teams playing a one-off series-decider has it in it to transform into an intriguing five-day fixture.

Set to host a Test match after just over a year, Edgbaston has witnessed England and India’s contrasting fortunes over the years. Hosts England have won 28 and lost 10 out of the 53 Birmingham Tests in over a century. On the contrary, India have won none and lost six out of their seven Test matches played here.

Edgbaston Cricket Ground Records

While the Top 11 highest run-scorers in Edgbaston Tests are all English cricketers, the Top 5 are all former players namely Alastair Cook (869), David Gower (767), Colin Cowdrey (737), Marcus Trescothick (670) and Michael Atherton (664). A list of Top Five batters at this venue among active players is mentioned below:

Batter	Matches	Runs	Highest	Average	100	50
Joe Root (ENG)	6	496	136	49.6	1	4
Steven Smith (AUS)	2	301	144	75.25	2	0
Jonny Bairstow (ENG)	6	248	83	27.55	0	2
Rory Burns (ENG)	2	225	133	56.25	1	1
Moeen Ali (ENG)	4	212	86*	42.4	0	3

Highest run-scorers in Birmingham among active Indian players are Virat Kohli (200), Hardik Pandya (53), Shikhar Dhawan (39), Amit Mishra (26) and Murali Vijay (26).

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Unlike batters, the Top Two highest wicket-takers in Test matches here are active cricketers namely James Anderson (45) and Stuart Broad (40). The senior English duo is followed by the likes of Fred Trueman (39), Ian Botham (29) and Shane Warne (25). A list of highest wicket-takers in Birmingham Tests among active cricketers are:

Bowler	Matches	Wickets	Average	SR	5
James Anderson (ENG)	12	45	23.28	49.6	2
Stuart Broad (ENG)	9	40	22.2	45.4	1
Nathan Lyon (AUS)	2	12	20.75	43.9	0
Ben Stokes (ENG)	4	12	29.33	50.1	0
Moeen Ali (ENG)	4	9	48.11	72.6	0

Best active Indian bowlers in Birmingham Test matches are Ravichandran Ashwin (7), Ishant Sharma (7), Mishra (3), Mohammed Shami (3) and Umesh Yadav (3).

Highest Test innings totals at Edgbaston

Score	Team	Opposition	Year
710/7d	England	India	2011
633/5d	England	India	1979
608/7d	Pakistan	England	1971
606	West Indies	England	1984
595/5d	England	Australia	1985