Crunching Numbers from Lords

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• Strauss crosses 5000 runs mark, during is knock of 161 runs. He now has 18 centuries, 4 at lords.
• Andrew Strauss became the fifth batsman to score 1000 runs or more at an average of 67.64 at Lords.
• Strauss and Cook went past the pair of Mike Atherton and Graham Gooch to take fourth place in the list of top opening partnerships for England. The pair now averages 47.07 for 2589 runs with seven century-stands
• Together with Cook, Strauss forged the highest first-wicket partnership by an England combination at Lord's (196) in an Ashes Test, bettering by 14 runs the 83-year-old record held by Jack Hobbs and Herbert Sutcliffe (182)
• The duo posted the highest first-wicket stand in England since Colin Cowdrey and Peter Richardson at Trent Bridge in 1956 (204). It was England's best in any Ashes Test since Graham Gooch and Mike Atherton put together 213 at Adelaide in 1990-91.
• Mitchell Johnson gets to 100 wickets in Test Cricket.
• Onions & Anderson add 47 for 10th wicket is a record for England at Lords.
• Michael Hussey's 51 was only his second half-century in 10 innings this year. He's averaged a modest 29 in 2009, compared to his overall average of 54.29.
• 145.23 Matt Prior's strike rate - he scored 61 off 42 balls. It's the highest strike rate for a 50-plus score in 2009.
• 123.6 The most overs Australia have batted in the fourth innings of a Test. Those were eight-ball overs - against South Africa in 1950 - which convert into 165 six-ball overs. The record against England is 115 eight-ball overs (153.2 six-ball ones).