The final match of the 5-match series between England and India is underway at the Oval, where the English team needs 35 runs to win the match, while India needs 4 wickets to win. The last day of the match remains. England has a 1-2 lead in the series. Although many records have been broken in this England-India series, the 70-year-old record for the most centuries in this series has been equaled.
A total of 21 centuries were scored in the England-India series. Earlier, 21 centuries were also scored in the Australia-West Indies series in 1955. In this series between England and India, Indian captain Shubman Gill scored 4 and English batsman Joe Root scored 3 centuries. KL Rahul, Rishabh Pant, Jaiswal and Harry Brook scored two centuries each. In addition, Jadeja, Washington Sundar, Jamie Smith, Ben Duckett, Ben Stokes and Olly Pope scored a century each in the series. It should be noted that in the final Test of the 5-match series, India had given England a target of 374 runs to win.