Ben Curran, making his Test debut, scored a quickfire 68 off 74 balls while opening the batting, making it the sixth-quickest fifty-plus score by an opener on Test debut. This was his fourth Test ton, and at the age of 39 years and 130 days, he became the third-oldest after Misbah-ul-Haq and Shivnarine Chanderpaul to score a Test hundred in the 21st century. Overall, Misbah and Chanderpaul have scored a combined eight hundreds aged more than what Ervine was aged at the time of scoring this century.