Benedict Bermange is on the ball as James Anderson wins his 50th cap at England's highest ground.
Benedict brings you all the stats that matter each day of the Test
Edgbaston has been a happy hunting ground for England in the past.
It is the only home ground (apart from Chester-le-Street which has only staged four matches) on which England have won at least 50 percent of their Tests.
Their overall record is: Played 44, Won 22, Lost 8, Drawn 14
Edgbaston is also the highest English country ground - at
112 metres above sea level. A six hit just over a 70 metre boundary here will travel approximately 30cm further than the same shot hit at sea level.
From 2007 to 2009 only 6 of the 28 first-class matches on the ground produced
results. However, this year, there have been five results in the six matches played and no side has made a score in excess of
400.
England seamer
James Anderson is at a career-highest fifth in the world ratings after his impressive display in the first Test at Trent Bridge but he has performed far better in English conditions than overseas:
| Where | M | Wkts | Avge | RPO | BB | 5i | 10m |
| Home | 30 | 124 | 27.78 | 3.28 | 7-43 | 8 | 1 |
| Away | 19 | 52 | 43.84 | 3.53 | 5-63 | 2 | 0 |
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He becomes the 60th man to play
50 Tests for England today. Only one England bowler has taken more wickets than him at the
same age - Ian Botham - who had 277 to Anderson's 176.
Stuart Broad took a career-best haul of 8-52 for Nottinghamshire against Warwickshire here a fortnight ago.
Since scoring a century in his 50th Test, in his last 13 Tests - which includes four against Bangladesh,
Kevin Pietersen averages 37.60 with five fifties and no centuries.
Alastair Cook averages 15.80 in his five Test innings this summer wit a highest score of 29.
Alphabetically
Dropped Pakistan wicketkeeper
Kamran Akmalscored all six of his Test centuries in Asia and his average on that continent is more than twice his average away from it.
| Continent | M | Inns | NO | Runs | HS | Avge | 100 | 50 |
| In Asia | 27 | 43 | 4 | 1694 | 158 | 43.43 | 6 | 6 |
| Outside Asia | 24 | 45 | 2 | 930 | 82 | 21.63 | 0 | 6 |
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Zulqarnain Haider becomes the
last player alphabetically to play Test cricket, surpassing his similarly-named Pakistani wicket-keeping counterpart Zulqarnain, who played three Tests in 1986.
Pakistan were
six wickets down for 47 and 41 in their two innings, becoming the first side since England at Christchurch in 1984 to lose its first six wickets for less than 50 in both innings of a match.
Mohammad Yousuf's last senior match was on 5 March but he is one of only three men to have played more than 10 Tests against England and averaged
more than 100 runs per Test:
| Name | M | Runs | Per match |
| Don Bradman | 37 | 5028 | 135.89 |
| Mohammad Yousuf | 12 | 1400 | 116.67 |
| George Headley | 16 | 1852 | 115.75 |
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Oldest
Yasir Hameed is one of only two players to score a century in each innings on his Test debut (the other being Lawrence Rowe). He made 170 & 105 against Bangladesh at Karachi in 2003. But he has failed to reach three figures in his 43 innings since that match.
In both their innings at Nottingham, the top scorer (Umar Gul and Danish Kaneria)
batted at number 8 or lower, the first time this has ever happened to Pakistan. England have only had it occur once - against Australia at Sydney in 1887, when it was George Lohmann (17) and Johnny Briggs (33) who top scored.
Kiwi
Eric Tindill, the oldest Test cricketer of all time, died on Sunday, at the age of 99 years and 226 days. There is only one person left who played Test cricket before WW2 -
Norman Gordon of South Africa - who was born on 6 August 1911.
Former Derbyshire batsman
Jim Hutchinson died in 2000 at the age of 103 years, 344 days, the oldest first-class cricketer of all time.
