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Numbers to Note: 2nd Test, Day 3

December 21, 2008 22:21 IST

149 - Runs added by Kevin Pietersen [ Images ] and Andrew Flintoff [ Images ], recording a highest fifth-wicket partnership at Mohali.

144 - Pietersen's innings is now the highest by any English captain on Indian soil.

45 - Number of Tests taken by Pietersen to aggregate 4,000 runs in Test cricket. He became third fastest Englishman after Herbert Sutcliffe (43), Len Hutton [ Images ] (44) and along with Jack Hobbs (45) to reach this landmark.

3 - Consecutive years in which Pietersen has aggregated 1,000 runs in a calendar year. He aggregated 1343 runs in the year 2006, 1007 in 2007 and now 1015 in 2008. Pietersen now joins Matthew Hayden [ Images ], Brian Lara [ Images ] and Marcus Trescothick [ Images ] in scoring 1000 runs in three consecutive years.

2 - Number of English batsmen to score a duck soon after posting hundreds in both innings of a Test. Andrew Strauss [ Images ] now joins Marcus Trescothick to suffer this fate.