Stats: Bell first player to score four Test tons this year

Statistical highlights of the third day's play in the second cricket Test between India [ Images ] and England [ Images ] in Nottingham.

# Praveen Kumar [ Images ] has bagged 11 wickets at 28.54 runs apiece -- the highest by an Indian in the current series.

# Praveen's tally is the second highest in the series, next only to Stuart Broad's [ Images ] 13 at 10.76 runs apiece.

# Matt Prior [ Images ] (64 not out off 88 balls) recorded his third half-century against India -- his 18th in Tests.

# Tim Bresnan [ Images ] (47 not out off 66 balls) posted his highest innings against India -- his second best in Tests. Against Bangladesh at Dhaka in 2010, he had made 91 off 261 balls.

# England posted 417 in a day's play -- their second highest in a day's play against India. On the first day of the 1936 Oval Test, they had recorded 471 for eight.

# Ian Bell [ Images ] and Kevin Pietersen [ Images ] were associated in a partnership of 162 -- England's highest for the third wicket against India at Trent Bridge.

# Bell and Pietersen have shared six century partnerships in Tests.

# Bell is the fifth England batsman to register a hundred against India at Trent Bridge.

# Michael Vaughan [ Images ] is the only one to post two centuries against India at this venue. His 197 in 2002 is the highest individual innings for England against India at Trent Bridge.

# Bell became the first batsman to post four hundreds this year -- 115 against Australia [ Images ] at Sydney [ Images ], 103 not out against Sri Lanka [ Images ] at Cardiff, 119 not out against Sri Lanka at Southampton and 159 against India at Trent Bridge.

# Bell's hundred at Trent Bridge is his first against India as well as at number three.

# Bell's strike rate of 77.18 (159 off 206 balls) is his third highest in Tests, next only to 96.42 against Bangladesh at Chester-le-Street in June 2005 and 78.51 against Pakistan at Manchester in 2006.

# In the course of his 63, Pietersen completed his 1,000 runs against India, aggregating 1005 (ave.55.83) in 10 Tests, including four hundreds and three fifties.

# Pietersen is the eighth English player to accomplish the feat. Graham Gooch is the leading run-scorer for England against India, aggregating 1725 (ave.55.64) in 19 Tests.

# Pietersen's brilliant 63 off 120 balls is his 24th fifty in Tests.

# Mahendra Singh Dhoni [ Images ] is the leading wicketkeeper with most dismissals -- 27 catches in six Tests in 2011.

# Eoin Morgan [ Images ] (70) has recorded his third Test fifty -- his first against India.

# Bell and Morgan put on 104 for the fourth wicket -- England's third highest against India at Trent Bridge.