Australia win battle of opening combinations

62.77 The average opening partnership for Australia in this series; England's average opening stand in the first four Tests is 14.00. The top six opening stands in this series - each over 50 - have all come from Warner and Chris Rogers. England's best opening stand in the series is 32.

2053 Partnership runs between Rogers and Warner, the highest by any pair in Tests since the beginning of 2012. They've averaged 51.32 per completed stand, with nine century partnerships, which is also the highest among all pairs.

94.42 Australia's average opening partnership in Tests at The Oval since 2000, easily their highest among all venues in England during this period.

87 Balls before Australia got their first boundary of the innings, when David Warner pulled Ben Stokes off the 88th delivery of the morning. Since 2002, there have been only four instances when the first boundary of a Test match has taken longer - by India against West Indies in Jamaica, 2006, (first boundary off the 114th ball), Bangladesh against Sri Lanka in Colombo, 2013, (107th ball), South Africa against England, in Durban, 2009, (95th ball), and India against West Indies, in Barbados, 2011 (89th ball). In the first hour this morning (14 overs), the Australian openers played 70 dots.

2006 Rogers' Test aggregate, with all his runs coming at the opening slot. Among openers who've debuted after the age of 30, Rogers' aggregate is easily the highest - the next-best is 1231, by England's Brian Luckhurst.

6 Fifty-plus scores for Warner in 15 Test innings in England. However, the highest among them is today's 85; his other 50-plus scores are 64, 77, 83, 52 (all in this series), and 71, in 2013. His previous five half-centuries had all been scored in the team's second innings. Warner has also achieved the distinction of getting a half-century in each Test of this series.

101 The unbroken fourth-wicket stand between Steven Smith and Adam Voges. In seven previous fourth-wicket stands in this series, Australia's highest was 43, and their average 17.57. This is only Australia's second century stand for any wicket other than the first in this series.