Stat highlights: Cook's staggering strike rate and Broad's dubious record

In an engrossing day's play at the Oval, Moeen Ali's fighting century helped England to post 328 in their first innings from a precarious 110 for 5 just after Lunch. He was well supported by Johnny Bairstow (55) and Chris Woakes (45). Sohail Khan picked his second five-fer in as many games in this series, but the pick of the Pakistan bowlers was Wahab Riaz who broke the back of England's batting line-up with three wickets earlier in the day.

Stat highlights from Day 1 of the series decider at The Oval:

70.50 Alastair Cook's strike rate in this series has been his personal best in Test cricket. His strike-rates in each innings read 65.32, 72.72, 61.04, 97.43, 86.53, 64.07 and 70.00. His career strike-rate at the start of this series was 46.42.

4 Number of times Alex Hales got dismissed by Mohammad Amir in seven innings this series. He has scored 51 runs off the 131 balls he faced from Amir. Against other Pakistan bowlers, he has hit 82 off 153 delivers getting dismissed thrice.

473 Runs scored in this series by Joe Root - the most for England in a rubber against Pakistan. He surpassed 453 runs by Denis Compton in 1954. Only two players from either sides have scored more runs than Joe Root in an England-Pakistan bilateral series - Mohammad Yousuf (631) in 2006 and Saleem Malik (488) in 1992.

Most runs in an England-Pakistan series:

3 Johnny Bairstow became the third wicketkeeper to score 900 or more runs in a calendar year after Andy Flower (1045 in 2000) and AB de Villiers (933 in 2013). Bairstow has 911 runs from 15 innings this year and is England's highest run-getter in 2016.

80.86 Average runs per partnership for England for the sixth wicket in 2016 - the best for them in a calendar year where they batted at least 3 innings. The next best in 80.00 which they achieved in 1905. In 15 sixth-wicket partnerships, England aggregated 1213 runs with three century stands. The next highest average for them for any wicket is 58.66 for the seventh wicket.

11 Number of hundreds scored by players batting at No. 7 or below at The Oval. He is only the second player to do it in the last 25 years after Anil Kumble's 110 in 2007. The last England No. 7 to score a hundred at Oval was Joe Hardstaff jnr in 1938 when he scored an unbeaten 169 against Australia.

2 Instances of sixth and seventh wicket putting together 75-plus in the same innings at Oval. The only instance before England's first innings was way back in 1938 in the match between England and Australia when England piled up 903 for 7. It is the only occasion of England doing it against Pakistan.

20 Stuart Broad has now been dismissed for a duck on 20 occasions - the joint most for England alongside Michael Atherton, Steve Harmison and Monty Panesar. It was his 18th duck since Jan 2010, which is the joint-most for any player, along with James Anderson.

7 Bowlers taking two five-fers in a series for Pakistan in England. Sohail Khan became the latest to join this elite club taking 5 for 68 following his 5 for 96 in Edgbaston. Imran Khan is the only one to do it twice (in 1982 and 1987).

5 Left-rm seamers taking 50 or more wickets for Pakistan in Tests. Wahab Riaz became the fifth member of this club after Wasim Akram (414), Junaid Khan (71), Azeem Hafeez (63) and Mohammad Amir (63). Australia is the only other country with more members in this club - eight - while England and New Zealand have five each.

3 for 93 by Wahab Riaz is his third-best figures in Tests outside Asia. The better figures are 5 for 63 at the same venue six years ago and 3 for 38 in Hamilton in 2011.

140.5 Yasir Shah's bowling average in this series after the Lord's Test, where he picked up 10 for 141. His five outings since Lord's read 1-213, 0-53, 1-64, 2-172 and 0-60.

331 Runs scored in the entire day's play - the second-most in the first day's play at the Oval in a Test match involving Pakistan. The only time more runs were scored in the opening day's play at Oval was 406 in 1962.

28 Innings since Pakistan registered a fifty-plus stand for the first wicket against England in away games. They average 11.85 per stand for the first wicket in this series, third-lowest in a series in England (minimum five innings) after 9.50 in 1967 and 11.62 in 2016.