England duo Jonny Bairstow and Joe Root add further statistical accomplishments

Jonny Bairstow and Joe Root piled on further statistical accomplishments as they powered England to a seven-wicket win over India at Edgbaston.

The Yorkshire pair put on an unbroken 269 in an England-record run chase of 378 for three, the eighth-highest target ever chased down to win a Test.

Here, the PA news agency casts an eye over their individual accomplishments against New Zealand and India this summer.

Bairstow has emerged as the face of Brendon McCullum’s England revolution, first against New Zealand and now in the series-saving catch-up Test against India.

He has made four centuries in his last five innings, only the fourth Englishman to achieve the feat.

Wally Hammond was first to do so in the 1928-29 Ashes, with 251 in Sydney and 200 in Melbourne, before a second innings of 32, then 119 not out and 177 in the same game in Adelaide.

Peter Parfitt followed across two series against Pakistan in 1962 – with two knocks of 101 not out before a declaration, and a top score of 119 – then Graham Gooch in 1990. He made 154 and 30 against New Zealand then 333 and 123 in an astonishing Lord’s Test against India, following up with 116 at Old Trafford.

Bairstow’s other innings in that time was 71 not out, giving him an average of 196.33 for those five innings – edging out Hammond’s 194.75 for the best of the quartet in their respective runs. Nobody has ever made five hundreds in six England innings.

He is also only the 11th Englishman to make two tons in one Test, and the first since Sir Andrew Strauss’ 123 and 108 against India in Chennai in 2008.

Hammond and Gooch’s aforementioned efforts also see them on that list along with 1920s opener Jack Russell, Herbert Sutcliffe on two separate occasions, Eddie Paynter, Denis