Pace-friendly first sessions, spin-friendly day 3

2-4 Win-loss record of teams batting first at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium, with an even 2-2 record in the last five Tests for them. However, teams have preferred batting first here with the team winning the toss opting to bat first on seven out of eight instances.

6 Tests that have ended in a result out of the eight played at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium. The draw in the last Test here, between Pakistan and New Zealand, was the first draw in seven matches after the inaugural Test played here between South Africa and Pakistan in 2010 that ended in a draw.

2-0 Pakistan's win-loss record against England in Dubai from two previous Tests between the teams here. Overall, Pakistan have a 4-2 win-loss record here with the last Test against New Zealand ending in a draw.

17.32 Runs per wicket fast bowlers average in the first session of the first day in Tests in Dubai. This is the lowest they average at a venue where five or more Tests have been played since 2010. Pakistan have made a significant contribution to the pacers' performance in the first session of the matches here, having lost 12 wickets for 145 runs in the four Tests they have batted first.

4 Number of Tests out of the eight played in Dubai that have ended within four days. However, in the four Tests that have gone into the fifth day, bowlers have had to toil hard, with just 19 wickets coming at an average of 42.21 and at a strike rate of 91. Among venues to host at least five Test since 2010, they have fared worse only at the Gabba where bowlers average 75.14 runs on an average for each wicket on the fifth day.

23.50 Spinners' average on the third day at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium - the best they average on any of the five days at this venue. This is also the best they average on day 3 at any venue that has hosted five or more Tests since 2010. In eight Tests here spinners have taken 40 of the 69 wickets to fall to bowlers on the third day - an average of 5.0 wickets per day which is the highest among these venues.

70.83 Younis Khan's batting average in Tests in Dubai. In eight Tests at this venue, Younis has made 850 runs including four hundreds and three fifties. His last five innings here have produced scores of 44, 72, 103*, 106 and 77. Younis is just 103 runs away from completing 9000 Tests runs; he will be the first Pakistan batsman to do so.

20.38 Runs per dismissal England's top-order averaged from two Tests before this in Dubai. Among 53 venues England have played at least two Tests in, this is the worst their top-order collectively averages at any venue. Matt Prior's unbeaten 70 in the last Test between the two teams here is the top score by an England batsman at this ground.

76 Runs Alastair Cook and Ian Bell - the only two England top-order batsmen in their current squad who have played in Dubai before - have made totally in four innings. While Cook has made only 58 runs from his two innings, Bell has 19 runs from two innings. Stuart Broad and James Anderson are the only other England players to have played a Test at this venue.

99 Total for which Pakistan were skittled out by the England bowlers in the first innings of the last Test at this venue, in 2012. England's fast bowlers - Anderson and Broad - took seven wickets between them conceding just 71 runs. Anderson has six wickets at an average of 27.33 and Broad has eight wickets at an average of 22.87 at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium.

57.49 Runs Pakistan's top-order (No. 1 to No. 7) has averaged in the last year in Tests - the highest for any team. Their batsman have made 22 hundreds in just ten Tests in this period, which is eight centuries more than India who are second in this list with 14.

14 Wickets by Yasir Shah at this venue - the most he has taken at any ground. Shah averages 20.50 and has taken one five-wicket haul, which came the last time he bowled here, against New Zealand last year. Zulfiqar Babar too has been reasonably successful in Dubai having taken at least four wickets in his previous three innings here. Babar has 16 wickets including one five-for at an average of 32.00.