Stats - Stokes' maximums and Lord's bouncers go through the roof

2001 The previous instance of England going 0-2 down after the first two matches of a home Test series was in the 2001 Ashes. The ongoing series is only the eighth for England at home, where they lost their first two Tests. Six of those eight home Test series have been the Ashes.

2The number of Test matches lost by England since 1950 despite scoring 300-plus runs in both innings, including the Lord's Test against Australia. The other instance was against India in 2008, where they made 316 and 311 for 9 in Chennai.

0 No player had scored more than 150 runs in the fourth innings of a Test match while batting at No. 6 and lower, before Ben Stokes' 155 at Lord's on Sunday. The previous highest was an unbeaten 149 by Adam Gilchrist against Pakistan in the 1999 Hobart Test.

1 Only one player has a highest fourth-innings score for England in the Ashes than Stokes' 155. Mark Butcher, who scored an unbeaten 173 at Headingley in 2001, sits at the top.

9 The number of sixes hit by Stokes during his 155 - the most by a player in an innings in the Ashes. He surpassed his record of eight sixes during his match-winning effort at Leeds, in 2019. Stokes is now also the leading six-hitter of the Ashes with 33 hits, going past Kevin Pietersen's 24.

5 The number of sixes hit by Andrew Flintoff against South Africa during his 142 in 2003. That was the most number of sixes in a Test innings at Lord's until Stokes' nine against Australia. The nine sixes by Stokes is also the most in a Test match at Lord's, surpassing Graham Gooch's seven sixes against India in 1990.

504 Short balls bowled by the pacers at Lord's are the most for a Test match since 2015, as per Cricday's ball-by-ball logs. The previous highest was 426, during the 2017 Wellington Test between New Zealand and Bangladesh. The 18 wickets that fell off those 504 bouncers at Lord's are the joint-most for a match, alongside the 2015 Hamilton Test between New Zealand and Sri Lanka.

8 Player-of-the-match awards for Steven Smith across 34 Ashes Tests, the most for any player in the Ashes. Smith has a total of 13 of these awards in Test cricket, the joint-most for any player since his debut in 2010, alongside Joe Root.

74 Extras conceded by England at Lord's. Only once have England conceded more extras in an Ashes Test - 83 at The Oval in 1934. It is the sixth-highest among England's tally in all Tests and the most by any team in a Test since England gave away 82 extras against New Zealand in 2015, also at Lord's.