Highs and lows

Benedict Bermange has all the stats for day four as England host Pakistan in the second Test at Edgbaston.

Some pointers for day four of the second Test

Pakistan will have a hard job preventing defeat in the second Test at Edgbaston. But as history shows, it should not be ruled out. Here are the lowest targets successfully defended in Test cricket:

Target	Score	Team bowling	Team bowled out	Venue	Season
85	77	Australia	England	The Oval	1882
99	63	West Indies	Zimbabwe	Port-of-Spain	1999/00
107	93	India	Australia	Mumbai	2004/05
111	97	England	Australia	Sydney	1886/87
111	44	England	Australia	The Oval	1896
117	111	South Africa	Australia	Sydney	1993/94
120	81	West Indies	India	Bridgetown	1996/97

However, the lowest target Pakistan have ever successfully defended is 127 against New Zealand at Hamilton in 1993. And only once has a target of less than 280 been successfully defended at Edgbaston:

Target	Score	Team bowling	Team bowled out	Venue	Season
151	121	England	Australia	Birmingham	1981

Runs and wickets

Before Saeed Ajmal, the last Pakistani to score a fifty and take five wickets in an innings in the same Test was Wasim Akram against Sri Lanka in at Columbo in 2000. Zulqarnain Haider's innings of 88 is the fourth-highest of anyone on Test debut who had been dismissed for 0 in his first innings. Gundappa Viswanath holds the record with 137. Pakistan have scored 363 runs off 155.3 overs in this Test at a scoring rate of just 2.33 runs per over. This is the lowest by a side in a Test in England since England scored at 2,14 runs per over against the West Indies at The Oval in 2000 yet won the match by 158 runs. Graeme Swann finally took six wickets in a Test innings having had seven previous hauls of five. The most:

Hauls	Bowler	Nationality	Times
5-fors without a 6-for:	Brett Lee	Aus	10
6-fors without a 7-for:	Terry Alderman	Aus	4
	Monty Panesar	Eng	4
7-fors without an 8-for:	Alec Bedser	Eng	5
	Clarrie Grimmett	Aus	5

All 10 wickets in England's first innings fell to bowlers whose names appeared on the scorecard starting with the same letter (Amir, Asif, Ajmal, Amin). On five occasions in Tests, all 20 wickets for one side have been taken by bowlers from whose surnames start with the same letter:

Bowlers	For	Against	Venue	Year
Barnes, Barlow, Bates	England	Australia	Melbourne	1883
Barnes, Braund, Blythe	England	Australia	Sydney	1901
Snooke, Schwarz, Sinclair, Shalders	South Africa	England	Johannesburg	1906
Laker, Lock	England	Australia	Manchester	1956
Chatfield, Cairns, Coney	New Zealand	England	Leeds	1983

If Andrew Strauss and Alastair Cook add at least 118 in England's second innings, they will surpass Jack Hobbs and Herbert Sutcliffe's record for the most runs added by an England opening pair. Hobbs and Sutcliffe scored 3249 runs in 38 innings together, while Strauss and Cook are on 3132 from 75 innings.