2 Test series won by Pakistan after losing the first match. Their previous win was the three-match series against Zimbabwe in 1995, which they won 2-1 after an innings defeat in the first Test.
823 for 7 England’s first innings total in Multan, the highest by any team in a Test series they lost. The previous highest was 760 for 7 by Sri Lanka against India in 2009, in the first Test of the three-match series, which they lost 2-0.
4 Consecutive Test series at home for Pakistan without a win before this one. Their previous series win at home came against South Africa at the start of 2021. They lost series against Australia, England and Bangladesh in between, while a series against New Zealand ended in a 0-0 draw.
4 Number of six-plus wicket hauls for Pakistan in the series against England – two by Sajid Khan and Noman Ali apiece. These are the most six-plus wicket hauls for Pakistan bowlers in a Test series.
Pakistan is also the first team to have four or more six-plus wicket hauls in a Test series since India at home against Australia in 2017.
1999 The last instance of two ten-wicket match hauls for Pakistan in a Test series was against India in India. Saqlain Mushtaq took ten wickets in both matches of that series – in Chennai and Delhi.
2015 The previous instance of Pakistan winning a Test series against England was by a 1-0 margin in the UAE. England won two of the previous four series against Pakistan, while the other two ended in draws.
50.28 Percentage of runs scored by England in this series came in just one innings – 823 for 7 in Multan. It is the highest percentage of a team’s series aggregate scored in a single innings (Min: 5 team innings in series).
The previous highest was 44.26 by Australia in the three-match series against South Africa in 1997, where almost half of their series aggregate of 1419 runs came in their first innings of the first Test – 628 for 8.
0 Number of balls bowled by the pace bowlers for Pakistan in Rawalpindi. It is only the second instance in men’s Tests where all balls bowled by a team’s bowlers were by spinners. The other such instance was by Bangladesh in 2018 in Mirpur against West Indies, where all 96 overs they bowled were by the spinners.
India did not field a pace bowler in their line-up against West Indies at Brabourne in 1966, where they bowled 226 overs, but the mixture bowlers – Motganhalli Jaisimha and Ajit Wadekar took the new ball before spinners stepped in.