Cook passes Stewart, Root's six in six

8523 Runs Alastair Cook has made in Tests - the second highest aggregate by any England batsman. Cook went past Alec Stewart's 8463 runs during his innings of 76. Graham Gooch leads the list with 8900 runs. Cook now has 8523 Test runs in 111 matches at an average of 45.82.

4 Number of England batsmen who had fifty-plus scores in six consecutive Test innings before Root. He has made 56, 77, 149*, 83, 59 and 118* in his last six innings. Cook was the last batsman to achieve this, in 2010-11. The others were Patsy Hendren, Ted Dexter and Ken Barrington. If Root gets fifty in his next innings too, he will join Everton Weekes, Andy Flower, Shivnarine Chanderpaul and Kumar Sangakkara as the batsmen to have fifty-plus scores in seven consecutive innings, which is the longest such streak.

4245 Runs scored by Cook in Tests outside England - equalling the most by any England batsman in away (and neutral) Tests. Wally Hammond also scored 4245 runs in away Tests. This was Cook's 33rd fifty-plus score in away Tests, which also equals the second most by any England batsman in away Tests. Colin Cowdrey also 33 made fifty-plus scores in away matches. Geoff Boycott leads this list with 35 such scores.

0 Centuries by Root in nine away Tests before this one. He had five Test hundreds at home. Root has scored 633 runs in away Tests at an average of 42.20. At home, Root has made 1359 runs at an average of 64.71. Root now has a Test hundred against each of the five teams he has played against.

40 Number of innings between the previous century stand by England's openers and the one in this Test. England's openers had last had a century partnership in 2013, in second innings of the Dunedin Test, when Cook and Nick Compton had added 231 runs.

456 Runs scored by England's fourth wicket in this series - the most scored by their fourth-wicket stand in any three-Test (or fewer) series. Their previous highest for the fourth wicket in a three-Test series was 434, against India in 1967. England's fourth-wicket stand has averaged 152 runs per wicket with a century partnership in each of the three innings so far.

62.53 Gary Ballance's average in Tests; he has 938 runs with eight fifty-plus scores in ten Tests, including four centuries. Ballance has hit at least one fifty in eight of his ten Tests