V Kohli was dismissed for a duck by the first ball in India’s first innings in this test to provide the 125^th occasion of a captain dismissed by the first ball in the annals of test cricket. It also provides the 26^th occasion of a captain collecting a first ball duck in an innings against England.

V Kohli collected the first ball duck against England on two occasions. The other occasion was at The Oval in Sep 2018. He became the second captain to collect the first ball duck on two occasions against England after GS Sobers of West Indies.

No	Player	R	BF	I	Team	Opp	Ground	Mon/Year
1	V Kohli	0	1	4	Ind	Eng	The Oval	Sep 2018
2	V Kohli	0	1	2	Ind	Eng	Nottingham	Aug 2021
1	GS Sobers	0	1	3	Win	Eng	The Oval	Aug 1966
2	GS Sobers	0	1	2	Win	Eng	Kingston	Feb 1968

It also provides the 14^th occasion of an Indian captain collecting the first ball duck in a test innings. All such occasions are tabulated below.

No	Player	R	BF	I	Opp	Ground	Mon/Year
1	L Amarnath	0	1	2	Aus	Melbourne	Jan 1948
2	L Amarnath	0	1	3	Aus	Adelaide	Jan 1948
3	AL Wadekar	0	1	2	Win	Port of Spain	Mar 1971
4	SM Gavaskar	0	1	2	Win	Bengaluru	Dec 1978
5	Venkataraghavan	0	1	1	Eng	Lord’s	Aug 1979
6	N Kapil Dev	0	1	1	Win	Bridgetown	Apr 1983
7	N Kapil Dev	0	1	1	Eng	Leeds	Jun 1986
8	SC Ganguly	0	1	4	Eng	Lord’s	Jul 2002
9	SC Ganguly	0	1	2	Win	Chennai	Oct 2002
10	V Sehwag	0	1	3	Srl	Ahmedabad	Dec 2005
11	MS Dhoni	0	1	4	Eng	Nottingham	Jul 2011
12	V Kohli	0	1	4	Eng	The Oval	Sep 2018
13	V Kohli	0	1	3	Win	Kingston	Aug 2019
14	V Kohli	0	1	2	Eng	Nottingham	Aug 2021

V Kohli’s first ball duck in this test provides the third occasion of his collecting the first ball duck. He now owns the record for most first ball ducks in an innings by an Indian captain. Other captains to collect two first ball ducks in an innings are – L Amarnath, N Kapil Dev and SC Ganguly.

No	Player	R	BF	I	Opp	Ground	Mon/Year
1	L Amarnath	0	1	2	Aus	Melbourne	Jan 1948
	L Amarnath	0	1	3	Aus	Adelaide	Jan 1948
2	N Kapil Dev	0	1	1	Win	Bridgetown	Apr 1983
	N Kapil Dev	0	1	1	Eng	Leeds	Jun 1986
3	SC Ganguly	0	1	4	Eng	Lord’s	Jul 2002
	SC Ganguly	0	1	2	Win	Chennai	Oct 2002
4	V Kohli	0	1	4	Eng	The Oval	Sep 2018
	V Kohli	0	1	3	Win	Kingston	Aug 2019
	V Kohli	0	1	2	Eng	Nottingham	Aug 2021

V Kohli’s first ball duck in this test provides the third occasion of his collecting the first ball duck. He became the ninth captain in the annals of test cricket to be dismissed for a duck by the first ball of an innings. The following table furnishes the performance of all these nine captains.

No	Player	R	BF	I	Team	Opp	Ground	Mon/Year
1	GS Chappell	0	1	2	Aus	Win	Adelaide	Jan 1980
	GS Chappell	0	1	4	Aus	Ind	Melbourne	Feb 1981
	GS Chappell	0	1	1	Aus	Win	Melbourne	Dec 1981
	GS Chappell	0	1	4	Aus	Win	Sydney	Jan 1982
	GS Chappell	0	1	2	Aus	Eng	Melbourne	Dec 1982
2	Jayasuriya	0	1	1	Srl	Aus	Galle	Sep 1999
	Jayasuriya	0	1	2	Srl	Aus	Col-SSC	Sep 1999
	Jayasuriya	0	1	4	Srl	SAF	Kandy	Jul 2000
	Jayasuriya	0	1	3	Srl	Eng	Kandy	Mar 2001
3	RT Ponting	0	1	1	Aus	SAF	Perth	Dec 2008
	RT Ponting	0	1	1	Aus	SAF	Sydney	Jan 2009
	RT Ponting	0	1	1	Aus	Pak	Sydney	Jan 2010
	RT Ponting	0	1	1	Aus	Eng	Adelaide	Dec 2010
4	F du Plessis	0	1	4	SAF	Eng	The Oval	Jul 2017
	F du Plessis	0	1	1	SAF	Aus	Jo’burg	Mar 2018
	F du Plessis	0	1	2	SAF	Pak	Centurion	Dec 2018
5	SP Fleming	0	1	2	NZl	Aus	Hobart	Nov 1997
	SP Fleming	0	1	2	NZl	Aus	Brisbane	Nov 2001
	SP Fleming	0	1	2	NZl	Aus	Wellington	Mar 2005
6	JO Holder	0	1	2	Win	Aus	Melbourne	Dec 2015
	JO Holder	0	1	3	Win	Eng	Birmingham	Aug 2017
	JO Holder	0	1	1	Win	NZl	Wellington	Dec 2017
7	R Illingworth	0	1	3	Eng	NZl	Lord’s	Jul 1969
	R Illingworth	0	1	1	Eng	Aus	The Oval	Aug 1972
	R Illingworth	0	1	2	Eng	Win	Lord’s	Aug 1973
8	V Kohli	0	1	4	Ind	Eng	The Oval	Sep 2018
	V Kohli	0	1	3	Ind	Win	Kingston	Aug 2019
	V Kohli	0	1	2	Ind	Eng	Nottingham	Aug 2021
9	GS Sobers	0	1	3	Win	Eng	The Oval	Aug 1966
	GS Sobers	0	1	2	Win	Eng	Kingston	Feb 1968
	GS Sobers	0	1	4	Win	Ind	Trinidad	Apr 1971

AM Rahane was dismissed run out for 5 in India’s first innings to provide the  70^th occasion of an Indian batsman dismissed run out in an innings against England. It also provides the 31^st occasion of an Indian batsman dismissed run out in an innings against England in England

AM Rahane was dismissed run out for 5 in India’s first innings to provide the  25^th occasion of an Indian batsman dismissed run out in an innings against England for a single digit score {Zero to nine}. It also provides the 13^th occasion of an Indian batsman dismissed run out in an innings against England in England for a single digit score {Zero to nine}

KL Rahul scored 57 not out in this test at the end of the second day’s play to provide the 102^nd occasion of an Indian opening batsman scoring a fifty in an innings against England. It also provides the 47^th occasion of an Indian opening batsman scoring a fifty in an innings against England in England.

RG Sharma-KL Rahul posted 97 runs for the first wicket in this test to provide the second occasion of Indian opening batsmen posting a partnership between 90 to 99 runs for the first wicket against England. The other occasion was at The Oval in Aug 1946 when V Merchant and S Mushtaq Ali partnered 94 runs for the first wicket.

RG Sharma-KL Rahul posted 97 runs for the first wicket in this test to provide the 35^th occasion of Indian batsmen posting a partnership between 90 to 99 runs for the various wickets against England. It also provides the 20^th occasion of Indian batsmen posting a partnership between 90 to 99 runs for the various wickets against England in England.

RG Sharma opened the India’s innings for the first time against England in England to become the 42^nd India’s opening batsman to open India’s innings against England in England.