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Pakistan's prolific pair, and Anderson's bunny

Stats highlights from a Pakistan-dominated third day in Dubai

S Rajesh
S Rajesh
24-Oct-2015
Misbah-ul-Haq drives through the covers, Pakistan v England, 2nd Test, Dubai, 1st day, October 22, 2015

Misbah-ul-Haq is 13 runs away from scoring a century in each innings for the second time in his Test career  •  AFP

14 Number of century partnerships in Tests between Younis Khan and Misbah-ul-Haq, easily the most by any Pakistan pair. The next-best is ten. They have an overall average of 80.88 in 42 partnerships, and 134.90 in 15 partnerships in the UAE, with seven century stands here. In their last ten partnerships in Tests, only once have they not reached 50.
2 Instances of Pakistan's captain scoring a century in each innings of a Test - Misbah achieved it against Australia in Abu Dhabi last year, while Inzamam-ul-Haq achieved it against England in Faisalabad in 2005. Misbah is 13 away from getting there for the second time in his Test career.
4-66 Wahab Riaz's bowling figures, his second-best in Test cricket; his best is also against England - 5 for 63 at The Oval in 2010. These are the only two instances he has taken more than three wickets in an innings in 14 Tests. Against England, he has 14 wickets at an average of 29; against other sides he has taken 28 wickets in ten Tests at 33.10.
17 Runs added by England's fifth to eighth wickets, as they slumped from 206 for 4 to 223 for 8. Only five times have these four wickets added fewer runs for England in a Test innings against Pakistan, with the fewest being seven, at Headingley in 1992.
38 Test wickets for Yasir Shah in six games in 2015, at an average of 23.60. Only three bowlers have taken more wickets this year - Stuart Broad (46 in 12 Tests), Dhammika Prasad (41 in nine), and James Anderson (39 in ten).
134 Runs scored by Misbah against spinners in this Test; he has scored those runs off 144 balls, at a strike rate of 93. Against England's fast bowlers, he has scored 55 off 190, a strike rate of 30.
13.54 Jos Buttler's batting average since the beginning of the 2015 Ashes series; in 11 innings during this period, he has a highest of 42, and eight scores of less than 15.
4 Number of times Anderson has dismissed Shan Masood in this Test series so far. Masood has scored four runs from 17 balls off Anderson, giving him an average of 1.00. It's the tenth time Anderson has dismissed a batsman four or more times in a Test series. The batsman he has dismissed most often in a series is Peter Siddle, who was out six times to him in the 2013 Ashes.
88.57 Mohammad Hafeez's average in his last eight Test innings in the UAE, with two centuries and two nineties.

S Rajesh is stats editor of ESPNcricinfo. @rajeshstats