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- When five English batsmen recorded centuries during the 1st Test at Lords, it was the first time that this had taken place since 1938.
- Matt Prior's début score of 126 was the first time an English wicket-keeper had scored a century on his début.
- England's win in the second test by an innings and 283 runs was the West Indies' heaviest defeat in Test cricket.
- The fourth day of the second test was played with the temperature around seven degrees Celsius in the morning; the coldest playing conditions for a Test in England.
- Play on the fourth day of the third test saw the highest number of extras in a Test match in England, and the second highest ever. By the end of the test, poor fielding by the West Indies and inconsistent bowling by both sides had added 167 to the cumulative run total, which included 51 byes, 45 leg byes, 27 no balls and 29 wides.
- With England's defeat of the West Indies in the third test, Michael Vaughan became the most successful England test captain, having won 21 out of 35 the Test matches in which he has led his team.
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