Fastest five-wicket haul in a Test match (balls bowled)

England's Stuart Broad took just 19 balls to rip through Australia's top order at the start of an extraordinary first day of the Fourth Ashes Test between England and Australia at Trent Bridge, Nottingham, UK, on 6 August 2015. In the first 40 minutes of play, Broad dismissed Chris Rogers, Steve Smith, Shaun Marsh, Adam Voges and Australian skipper Michael Clarke to leave the visitors reeling on 29 for 6 after only 6.1 overs. Broad equalled the record set by Australia's left-arm medium-pacer Ernie Toshack (1914–2003), who took five wickets for two runs in 2.3 eight-ball overs against India at Brisbane Cricket Ground in Australia on 4 December 1947, although unlike Broad, Toshack was not an opening bowler.

South African opener Vernon Philander took 25 balls to claim five New Zealand wickets (27 for 5 after 9.1 overs) at Newlands in Cape Town, South Africa, on 2 January 2013 – the fastest five-wicket haul from the start of a Test match before Broad's heroics.

Australia's effort was also the shortest first innings by a team in Test history (18.3 overs, or 111 balls), lasting just 93 minutes. In 1896 at Lord's, it took England 22.3 five-ball overs, or 113 balls, to dismiss Australia – the shortest first innings before Trent Bridge 2015.

Mark Wood chipped in with the wicket of David Warner to leave Australia on 10 for 3, which meant that when Voges was out with the score on 21 for 5 (to a "worldie" catch by Ben Stokes that left Broad open-mouthed in disbelief), it was the earliest fall of the fifth wicket in a Test match (4.1 overs, or 25 balls). Australia's collapse also brought about the earliest fall of the fourth (2.4 overs, or 16 balls) and sixth (6.1 overs, or 37 balls) wickets in Test match history. NB: ball-by-ball data has only been available since 2002.

When Broad removed Rogers with the third ball of the day, it brought to an end a sequence of 45 Test matches without being dismissed for a duck by the Aussie opener. In his 83rd Test match, it was also Broad's 300th Test wicket.

Nottinghamshire's Broad, playing on his home ground, finished off the Australian innings with the wicket of Nathan Lyon to claim figures of 9.3-5-15-8 (9.3 overs, 5 maidens, 15 runs, 8 wickets) – the third-cheapest eight-for in Test history and the third-best figures in the Ashes, behind Jim Laker's 10 wickets for 53 runs and 9 wickets for 37 runs in the same match at Old Trafford, Manchester, UK, on 27-31 July 1956.

All eight of Broad's wickets were caught in the slips. Wood and Steven Finn claimed the other two Australian wickets to fall.

It was reported that "extras top-scored for the first time in Ashes cricket" (14 – 3 no-balls, 11 leg-byes). Mitchell Johnson was the second-highest scorer, with 13.

England (274 for 4) were 214 ahead of Australia (60 all out) after the first day and went on to regain the Ashes on day three after declaring their first innings on 391 for 9 and bowling out the visitors for 253 in their second innings, winning the match by an innings and 78 runs.

Ernie Toshack was second-change bowler for Australia and precipitated India's collapse from 53 for 5 to 58 all out. He took 6 for 29 in 17 overs in India's second innings. Toshack played the last of his 12 Test matches in July 1948.