Time for zeroes

Can Pakistan avoid some unwanted records? Benedict Bermange has the stats for day three...

Some pointers for day three of the second Test at Edgbaston

This is the 1,535th Test to have been scheduled as a five-day match. Only 131 have ended on the third day or earlier. So far, Pakistan have made six ducks in the match. They are three short of the Test record:

Team	Against	Venue	Season	Ducks
Sri Lanka	India	Chandigarh	1990/91	9
West Indies	Australia	Brisbane	2000/01	9

Their record is eight against Australia at Sharjah in 2002 when they were bowled out for 59 and 53. The last Pakistan batsman to follow up a first-innings duck with a second-innings century was Saeed Anwar who scored 188* against India at Kolkata in 1999. Only four England bowlers have ever taken a 10-wicket match haul at Edgbaston:

Bowling	Name	Against	Season
12-119	Fred Trueman	West Indies	1963
11-90	Arthur Gilligan	South Africa	1924
11-102	Charlie Blythe	Australia	1909
10-104	Richard Ellison	Australia	1985

James Anderson currently has match figures of 5-21. The fewest runs conceded by a bowler taking a haul of at least 10 wickets in a match in England is Tony Lock's 11-48 against West Indies at The Oval in 1957. Here are the cheapest 10-wicket hauls in Test history:

Player	Runs	Wkts	Opposition	Ground	Year
H Ironmonger (Aus)	24	11	South Africa	Melbourne	1932
GD McGrath (Aus)	27	10	West Indies	Brisbane	2000
J Briggs (Eng)	28	15	South Africa	Cape Town	1889

In 1957 at Edgbaston, England trailed the West Indies by 288 on first innings but Peter May (285*) and Colin Cowdrey (154) added 411 for the fourth wicket to draw the match.
30/05/1957: England (186 & 583-4d) West Indies (474 & 72-7). Match Drawn. So far, Pakistan have scored 91 runs for the loss of 11 wickets. They have just gone past the lowest number of runs in a match by a side bowled out twice:

Team	Runs	Result	Opposition	Ground	Year
South Africa	81	Lost	Australia	Melbourne	1932
South Africa	90	Lost	England	Cape Town	1889
New Zealand	96	Lost	Australia	Wellington	1946

They are still a little behind their worst effort:

Team	Runs	Result	Opposition	Ground	Year
Pakistan	112	Lost	Australia	Sharjah	2002
Pakistan	208	Lost	West Indies	Lahore	1986
Pakistan	222	Lost	New Zealand	Hamilton	2001