Amir in England: 30 wickets at 19.80

2010 Pakistan's last Test in England was also at Lord's, where they lost the four-match series 1-3. This is Pakistan's second-longest gap between Test series in England - there were seven seasons between their England tours in 1954 and 1962. Those two tours were Pakistan's first two in England.

7 Number of Tests played by Pakistan outside Asia (excluding Zimbabwe) since their last tour of England - significantly fewer compared to the other top subcontinent teams India (27) and Sri Lanka (18). Pakistan have played those seven Tests across three series: a two-match series in New Zealand in 2010-11, a two-match series in West Indies in 2011 and a three-match series in South Africa in 2012-13.

4-3 England's win-loss record against Pakistan in Tests at Lord's. Three of those four were innings victories, and the other was a nine-wicket win. Two of those wins came in the last three meetings between them (2001 and 2010) while the other Test (2006) was drawn.

3-3 England's win-loss record at Lord's in their last eight Tests. But they had not lost in 13 matches at the ground between 2006 and 2012. England did not win their last two Tests at the venue - they lost by 405 runs to Australia in 2015 and drew against Sri Lanka earlier this season.

45.08 The average runs per wicket in the first innings of Tests at Lord's since 2006. It is the highest among nine venues that have hosted more than 10 Tests in this period. In three of the last five Tests, the team batting first has scored in excess of 400. There has been only one instance in the last 10 years of a team losing at Lord's after batting first.

19.80 Mohammad Amir's bowling average in Tests in England - his best in any country. Amir has taken 30 wickets in six Tests in England, while his other 21 wickets in eight Tests elsewhere have come at 42.38. In his last Test appearance, also in England, he took 6 for 84.

6.25 Joe Root's average in his last two Tests at Lord's. He made 1 and 17 against Australia in 2015, and 3 and 4 against Sri Lanka this season. In contrast, he scored 773 runs in his first 10 innings there at an average of 85.88, with two centuries and four fifties, including scores of 180 and 200 not out in in 2013 and 2014.

2 Number of uncapped players in England's squad for the first Test - Jake Ball and Toby Roland-Jones. In absence of James Anderson, either of them is likely to make his Test debut. Ball has taken 35 wickets in nine first-class matches in this season in England at an average of 22.22 with five four-wicket hauls and his average is the third-best in domestic first-class matches in this season who have bowled 150 or more overs (it excludes Anderson and Chris Woakes who have played Tests this season). Roland-Jones on the other hand has averaged 29.06 with ball taking 30 wickets in as many matches as Ball. Roland-Jones scored unbeaten 51-ball 79 in his last first-class match, batting at No. 9, for Middlesex against Yorkshire. He averages 22.96 with bat in his first-class career and has scored his only century at Lord's last season.

12 Number of Tests for England without their No. 3 scoring a century. The last century at this spot was by Gary Ballance against West Indies in North Sound in 2015. Since then, there have been only two half-centuries in 22 innings by England batsmen. Root is likely to play at No. 3, who averages just 28.71 at that position in eight innings with a highest of 87.

37.23 Spinners' average in the third and fourth innings of Tests at Lord's since 2006, which is the second-lowest among the six England venues that have hosted five or more matches in this period. Yasir Shah, who will lead the spin-attack for Pakistan, has not played any Test outside Asia so far in his 12-match career.

33.64 Ballace's average in first-class matches in England this year in 15 innings compared to his first-class career average of 50.13. He has scored just two half-centuries and a century in this period. Also in Tests, he has averaged just 17.50 in his last five Tests with just one half-century and four single-digit scores.