England's follow-on specialist

126.33 Alastair Cook's batting average in follow-on innings: in three such innings he has scores of 118 (versus Sri Lanka), 176 (versus India), and 85.

2 Batsmen who have scored three centuries in follow-ons - Martin Crowe and Michael Vaughan. Cook fell 15 short of becoming the third.

0 Number of hundreds for Cook in 28 Test innings at home against Australia; his highest is 96, and he has six 50-plus scores, but an average of 29.60. In Australia he averages 49.53, with four hundreds in 27 innings.

12.77 Adam Lyth's series average, the second-lowest for an opener who has batted at least eight times in an Ashes series. The only opener who had a worse series, though, went on to have a great career: Graham Gooch averaged 12.12 in the 1981 Ashes, which was also a series England won. Michael Atherton did only slightly better in 1998-99, averaging 13.75 also in eight innings.

16.33 England's average opening partnership in the series. Only five times have they had poorer returns from their opening pair in an Ashes series, of which three were before 1900. The most recent such instance was in the 1989 series, when England's average opening stand was 14.54, and their highest partnership 35. The highest for them in this series is 32.

1 Number of times Michael Clarke has enforced the follow-on, in his 47 Tests as captain. There were five matches when Clarke had the opportunity the do so, but this Oval Test is the first time he has actually enforced it. Australia won each of the other four Tests when they didn't, though. Among the recent Australian captains, Ricky Ponting enforced it four times out of 13 Tests when he had the opportunity to do so, Steve Waugh eight out of eight, and Mark Taylor three out of five.

0.87 Peter Siddle's economy rate, which is the fourth best by an Australian seamer in a Test in the last 40 years (with a 15-over cut-off). The best during this period is by Shane Watson, who had figures of 15-11-11-0 against England at Trent Bridge in 2013.

332 Australia's first-innings lead, their seventh highest in a Test against England since 1980. Their highest during this period is 453, at Headingley in 1993.