Statistical highlights of the fifth day's play in the first cricket Test between India [ Images ] and England [ Images ] played at Lord's London [ Images ].
# England's victory by 196 runs is their 35th against India in 100 Tests. (Lost 19 and Drawn 46) with a success percentage of 35.00.
#James Anderson [ Images ] (5/65) registered his second five-wicket haul against India -- his 11th in Tests.
# Anderson has taken 43 wickets at an average of 27.13 in 10 Tests at Lord's.
# Anderson has bagged five wickets in an innings at Lord's three times -- 5 for 42 against India in 2007, 5 for 65 against India in 2011 and 5 for 73 against Zimbabwe in 2003.
# Anderson has reached 150 wickets at home at an average of 26.96 in 36 Tests. He has produced five-wicket hauls nine times in England.
# Anderson has dismissed Sachin Tendulkar [ Images ] six times in seven Tests.
# Suresh Raina [ Images ] (78 off 136 balls) posted his first fifty against England -- his sixth in Tests.
# Raina has recorded four fifties in consecutive Tests in 2011 -- 82 at Kingston [ Images ], 53 at Bridgetown, 50 at Roseau all three against the West Indies [ Images ] and 78 against England at Lord's.
# For the first time in the Lord's Test, India (286 and 261) recorded 250 or more in each innings.
# Kevin Pietersen [ Images ] received his seventh MOM award in Tests -- his second against India.
# Pietersen's tally of seven MOM awards is bettered by Ian Botham (12) and Graham Gooch (9) for England.
# In his last five outings in the fourth innings of a Test match, VVS Laxman [ Images ] has posted 103 not out against Sri Lanka [ Images ] at Colombo PSS, 73 not out against Australia [ Images ] at Mohali, 32 not out against South Africa [ Images ] at Cape Town, 3 not out against West Indies at Roseau and 56 against England at Lord's.
# Laxman (56 off 113 balls) posted his second fifty at Lord's -- he had registered 74 off 120 balls in a 2002 Test.
# Laxman's 53rd Test half-century is his fifth against England.
# In the second innings, Laxman has averaged 51.58 -- 3250 in 82 innings, including five hundreds and 21 fifties.
# Rahul Dravid [ Images ], in the course of his second innings score of 36, became the leading run-scorer in the fourth innings in Tests, taking his tally to 1470 (ave.43.23) in 52 innings, overtaking Brian Lara's [ Images ] tally of 1440 (ave.35.12) in 46 innings.
# The top four run-getters in the fourth innings in Tests are -- Dravid (1470), Lara (1440), Shivnarine Chanderpaul [ Images ] (1406) and Sunil Gavaskar [ Images ] (1398).
# After recording an unbeaten 68 against West Indies at Basseterre in June 2006, Dravid has not posted a half-century in 16 fourth innings of a Test match -- his average being 26.36 while aggregating 290 runs in sixteen innings -- his highest being 38 against Australia at Sydney [ Images ] in January 2008.
# Sachin Tendulkar posted 12 off 68 balls at a strike rate of 17.64 -- the lowest registered by him at Lord's in nine innings. The rate is his second lowest away from home when he has recorded double-digit score -- the lowest being 15.38 (14 not out off 91 balls) against South Africa at Cape Town in January this year.
# Tendulkar has averaged 21.66 at Lord's -- 195 in nine innings, without a fifty.
# Andrew Strauss [ Images ] enjoys success rate of 50.00 -- 18 victories, five losses and 13 drawn games out of 36 played.
# India have won one, lost 11 Tests and drawn four out of 16 played at Lord's.
# England have won 47, lost 27 and drawn 47 out of 121 played at Lord's.
# For the first time in a Test match, Stuart Broad [ Images ] has bagged seven wickets -- 7 for 94, eclipsing the 6 for 87 against South Africa at Durban in December 2009.



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