29 Fifty-plus scores in Tests by Joe Root in only 74 innings. He has a conversion rate of a fifty-plus score every 2.55 innings. Among batsmen with at least 20 fifty-plus scores in Test history, only seven other batsmen have a better conversion rate. Among England batsmen, only Herbert Sutcliffe (39 fifty-plus scores in 84 innings, conversion rate of 2.15), Jack Hobbs (43 in 102 innings, 2.37) and Ken Barrington (55 in 131, 2.38) have done better than Root. Root has made 2111 runs at 62.08 including 19 fifty-plus scores in just 38 first-class innings since 2015.
23 Runs Root had scored from five innings in international cricket at Chester-le-Street before this match. He made 80 in England's first innings. However, Root did make 182 at this venue for Yorkshire against the home team in County Championship in 2013. He has made 286 runs at 71.50 playing for Yorkshire at this venue.
78.14 Jonny Bairstow's batting average in Tests since the Boxing Day match against South Africa last year - nearly three times what he had averaged before that. Bairstow had made 845 runs at 26.40 in his first 34 Test innings. Bairstow's 48 in this innings was his sixth score of 40 or more in his last nine innings.
7 Number of times Nuwan Pradeep has taken three or more wickets in an innings in 11 Tests since 2015, including his 3 for 69 on the first day at Chester-le-Street. Pradeep has taken 32 wickets at an average of 33.09 during this period. Before 2015, Pradeep had just 14 wickets in eight Tests at an average of 72.78, with two hauls of three or more wickets.
3 Number of consecutive fifties in first-class cricket for Alex Hales. Before his 86 and 83 against Sri Lanka in this series, Hales had made 73 against Middlesex at Lord's. Hales has made 312 first-class runs at 62.40 in 2016 including at least 30 runs in each of his five innings this year.
14 Number of times out of 26 Hales has been dismissed without getting a century after scoring at least 80 in first-class cricket. This was his second score in the 80s in two consecutive Test innings. He had made 86 in the Leeds Test. Among batsmen who have reached the score of 80 at least 25 times in first-class cricket since 2006, Hales' conversion rate is the joint worst. Shane Watson also had 14 such dismissals out of the 26 times he scored 80 or more.
27.40 Average opening stand between Cook and Hales in Tests - the third worst for any England pair to open in at least ten innings. While in recent times Cook and Root averaged just 26.60 from ten innings as an opening pair, Dennis Amiss and Barry Wood who averaged 27.10 are the second worst. Cook and Hales have added two fifty stands in ten innings with a highest of 64, in the second innings in Johannesburg.
96 Runs added by the partnership between Hales and Root - the second highest for the third wicket in Chester-le-Street and the highest for that wicket at this venue since Ian Bell and Marcus Trescothick added 155 against Bangladesh in 2005.
5 Runs Alastair Cook fell short of completing 10000 in Tests in this innings. He is only the third batsman to be dismissed in the 9990s after Brian Lara and Mahela Jayawardene. Lara was dismissed when he needed seven more runs, on 13 in the second innings at Edgbaston, while Jayawardene fell when he was just one run short of the landmark, run out by Jacques Kallis on 15 in the second innings in Centurion.