Benedict Bermange has all the stats for day two of the third Test, including a record for England's Matt Prior.
Benedict has all the vital statistics for day two of the third Test
Only six
wicket-keepers have scored more than
1,500 Test runs at an average of more than
40.
Matt Prior is now one of those and has just moved above Les Ames as the top England wicket-keeper in terms of batting average:
| Name | Matches | Innings | NO | Runs | HS | Avg | 100 | 50 |
| A Flower | 55 | 100 | 18 | 4404 | 232* | 53.70 | 12 | 23 |
| AC Gilchrist | 96 | 137 | 20 | 5570 | 204* | 47.60 | 17 | 26 |
| MJ Prior | 34 | 53 | 10 | 1869 | 131* | 43.46 | 3 | 15 |
| LEG Ames | 44 | 67 | 12 | 2387 | 149 | 43.40 | 8 | 7 |
| KC Sangakkara | 49 | 83 | 5 | 3281 | 230 | 42.06 | 8 | 11 |
| MS Dhoni | 46 | 70 | 9 | 2556 | 148 | 41.90 | 4 | 18 |
Pakistan gloveman
Kamran Akmal is also chasing a record. With his four catches in England's first innings, the 28-year-old now has 198 dismissals in his Test career. He is hoping to become the 12th keeper to reach 200 in Tests and if he achieves the landmark in this match, he will be the joint second-fastest:
| Name | Matches |
| AC Gilchrist | 47 |
| MV Boucher | 52 |
He would also be the second-youngest to reach 200 dismissals, with only Boucher (25) younger than him.
Batting stats
Alastair Cook is one of 15 players (including David Gower) to have had more than 50 Test innings and never had their batting average drop
below 40. However, after his first innings it is down to 42.44.
Herbert Sutcliffe's batting average never dropped
below 60 in his enire career of 54 matches (84 innings).
88 batsmen have scored
centuries on their Test debuts - including Lawrence Rowe and Yasir Hameed - who each scored two. 35 of them never scored another Test century. Before this match, Hameed had 43 innings since his debut, the most of these. Lala Amarnath's 38 innings after his debut century is second-worst.
Salman Butt has now played 58 Test innings without ever having been not-out. He tops this particular table, five innings ahead of Australian George Giffen, who surprisingly only opened on two occasions.
Wahab Riaz is the 19th debutant to act as nightwatchman in the first innings of his first Test. Here are the highest scores among those innings:
| Score | Player | Match | Venue | Year |
| 94 | Jack Russell | Eng v SL | Lord's | 1988 |
| 42 | Don Wilson | Eng v Ind | Chennai | 1964 |
| 38 | Neil Williams | Eng v Ind | The Oval | 1990 |
| 31 | Venkatapathy Raju | Ind v NZ | Christchurch | 1990 |
| 31 | Abdur Rauf | Pak v SL | Galle | 2009 |
Swift Swann
Graeme Swann needs three wickets to reach 100 in his career. He is currently playing in his 23rd Test and only two England spinners have reached
three figures in fewer: Charlie Blythe (19) and Bobby Peel (20).
Only two off-spinners reached 100 in fewer than 23 Tests - Erapalli Prasanna (20) and Hugh Tayfield (22).
Having made his Test debut on 11 December 2008, Swann has been a Test cricketer for 1 year, 251 days. He would be the third fastest
in terms of time to get to 100 wickets, and the fastest Englishman.
Kapil Dev is the quickest to reach that landmark (1 year, 105 days), Mitchell Johnson second (1 year, 250 days) and Ian Botham third (2 years, 5 days).
And finally...
There have been 13 first-class matches played at The Oval since the start of the 2009 season. Five have been won by the side batting first with the other eight drawn. No team batting second has won any of them.
