Benedict Bermange has all the stats as Azhar Ali makes the top five of an unwanted list on day one.
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Azhar Ali faced 32 deliveries and was in for 54 minute for his duck. It is the fifth-longest in Test history in terms of minutes and the 14th longest in terms of balls faced.
Geoff Allott tops both tables with his 101-minute, 77-ball effort for New Zealand against South Africa at Auckland in 1999.
The most deliveries spent before getting off the mark is 79 balls by John Murray, batting with a shoulder injury for England against Australia at the SCG in 1963.
Pakistan's five ducks is one short of the Test record which they share. Six of their batsmen were dismissed without scoring against the West Indies at Karachi in 1980.
This is the 51st occasion that a side has batted first in a Test and trailed at the end of the first day. Only three have managed to come back to win the match - none of them in the past fifty years:
| Day 1 scores | Venue | Year | Result |
| Aus (63) v Eng (101) | The Oval | 1882 | won by 7 runs |
| SAf (126) v Eng (167-5) | Johannesburg | 1930 | won by 28 runs |
| Eng (133) v SAf (142-5) | Lord's | 1955 | won by 71 runs |
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Only five teams have ever been
dismissed for less than 100 batting first in a Test and come back to win, and none of those have occurred in the past hundred years:
| Score | Team | Against | Venue | Season |
| 45 | England | Australia | Sydney | 1887 |
| 63 | Australia | England | The Oval | 1882 |
| 75 | England | Australia | Melbourne | 1894 |
| 76 | England | South Africa | Leeds | 1907 |
| 92 | England | South Africa | Cape Town | 1899 |
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Zulqarnain Haider will hope not to emulate South African
Tommy Ward who completed a king pair on his Test debut against England at Old Trafford in 1912.
Umar Gul was dismissed to the first ball he faced in Test cricket having already been run out without facing in his only innings on his debut the previous week.
Highs
Here are the highest totals in the six first-class matches here this season:
| Score | Overs | Team | Against | Result |
| 389 | 105.4 | Nottinghamshire | Warwickshire | Won |
| 382 | 95.1 | Warwickshire | Hampshire | Won |
| 379 | 110.2 | Durham | Warwickshire | Drawn |
| 375 | 112.5 | Warwickshire | Lancashire | Lost |
| 354 | 102.5 | Lancashire | Warwickshire | Won |
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At Edgbaston this year runs have been scored at only
26.47 per wicket. Of the eighteen main county grounds, this is the second lowest, only 'bettered' by Bristol's 22.49. Headingley has produced the highest championship runs per wicket at 41.70 despite wickets regularly tumbling in the Test Match there.
Kevin Pietersen averaged 39.10 in his ten Tests before this one with a highest score of 99. He averaged 35.00 in his ten Tests between July 2007 and May 2008 but he did manage to score two centuries in that time.
Worst
A total of 62 players have scored at least 15 Test centuries. Here are the worst runs of form over any 10 Tests for that group:
| Name | Runs | Avge | Start | End |
| Mark Taylor | 251 | 15.68 | 26 Dec '96 | 28 Jul '97 |
| Michael Atherton | 287 | 15.94 | 6 Jun '91 | 18 Mar '93 |
| Aravinda de Silva | 302 | 16.77 | 18 Mar '95 | 17 Mar '97 |
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Nasser Hussain scored 14 Test centuries but averaged just 12.20 in his ten Tests from Jan - Dec 2000.
This is the ninth time that Pietersen and Jonathan Trott have batted together and they currently average a partnership of 65 together with a highest of 145 against South Africa at Centurion - which took a run-out to break.
