5 Milestones and Records that can be achieved in the 4th test

The much awaited series of the English summer is underway and has delivered what was expected out of it. Till now, there has been an even contest between bat & ball and both teams have outclassed each other many a times during the course of the test series.

In a high profile series, records are meant to be broken. In this series already we had several milestones achieved namely James Anderson becoming only the 2nd player to pick 100 wickets against India, Ben Stokes crossing 100 wickets in test cricket, Joe Root going past 6000 test runs, Hardik Pandya took his maiden fifer in tests while Buttler scored his maiden century and Ajinkya Rahane going past 3000 run mark in tests.

So going into the 4th match, we could see several more records broken and milestones achieved.

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#5 A Player could be making his Debut

Prithvi Shaw

There cannot be a much bigger occasion for any player than playing his debut test match. India have called up Prithvi Shaw and Hanuma Vihari for the rest of the series and also have Shardul Thakur in the ranks, all three who are yet to play for India in the longer format of the game. Anyone of the said trio can get a look in but Shaw seems to have a better chance.

It will be a milestone of sorts for the player making his test debut.

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#4 Adil Rashid approaching 50 test wickets

A brilliant white ball bowler

A lot of eyebrows were raised when Adil Rashid was selected for the test series ahead of Moeen Ali since he has not been playing white ball cricket for a long time. And a lot of criticisms were made by the experts and former players regarding his selection into the test team.

Till now, he has performed decently in not so helpful conditions for his style of bowling and will have 50 test wickets to his name if he takes 5 more wickets, becoming a rare English leg-spinner to achieve this feat.

#3 Ishant Sharma approaching 250 Test wickets

Ishant has been top notch

Another player who is approaching a milestone is the Indian bowling spearhead, Ishant Sharma. He is just one wicket short of 250 test wickets. If he does so, he will only be the 7th bowler overall and just the 3rd Indian pacer to achieve this landmark.

He has been leading this bowling attack well and one can hope that he will continue to do so.

#2 Virat Kohli approaching 6000 Test runs

Player of the series so far

Kohli's form in the past 4 years has been nothing short of exemplary, to say the least. He successfully overcame the demons of the previous tour to England by scoring two centuries in three games so far. He is just 6 runs short of completing 6000 runs in Test cricket and will become the 9th fastest in the world & the 2nd among Indian batsmen to achieve this feat if he does so in his next innings that he plays.

He will also overtake Steven Smith as the player with most 100's amongst the "fab 4" at this present moment, if he manages to score a ton.

#1 James Anderson becoming the leading wicket-taker in test matches among the pacers

All time legend

The most successful English pacer will have the chance of becoming the all-time leading wicket-taker among the pacers in the history of test cricket if he manages to take 7 more wickets in this match, which will make him surpass Glenn Mcgrath's tally of 563 wickets in 124 test matches.

He is more than likely to achieve this feat in this match, given his track record against the Indians and the helpful English conditions.