After storming to victory at Trent Bridge, England can wrap up their Test series against India at Edgbaston over the next five days.
But how good is the home side's record in Birmingham? How effective is England's opening partnership in this series? How do Ravi Bopara's statistics stack up to Virender Sehwag's?
Sky Sports' Benedict Bermange is back to bring you the answers to these questions and much more as Andrew Strauss' men pursue the World No 1 spot in Test cricket...
England won at Nottingham by 319 runs despite conceding a first-innings lead. This was the largest margin of victory by a team trailing on first innings:
Margin
Team 1
Beat Team 2
Venue
Year
319 runs
Eng (221 & 544)
India (288 & 158)
Nottingham
2011
289 runs
Eng (280 & 436)
Australia (302 & 125)
The Oval
1926
245 runs
Aus (285 & 506)
England (363 & 183)
Adelaide
1907-08
In contrast to Nottingham, England's record at Edgbaston is their best of all their regularly-used home venues:
Venue
Mat
Won
Lost
Draw
W/L
Birmingham
45
23
8
14
2.87
The Oval
93
38
19
36
2.00
Manchester
73
25
14
34
1.78
Lord's
121
47
27
47
1.74
Leeds
69
30
22
17
1.36
Nottingham
56
19
16
21
1.19
India welcome back their most prolific opening partnership:
Bat 1
Bat 2
Inns
Unb
Runs
Best
Avge
100
50
V Sehwag
G Gambhir
63
3
3,551
233
59.18
10
19
SM Gavaskar
CPS Chauhan
59
3
3,010
213
53.75
10
10
SM Gavaskar
AD Gaekwad
49
1
1,722
176
35.87
4
9
England's opening partnerships this series have been 19, 23, 7 and 6 for total of 55 runs at an average of 13.75.
Andrew Strauss has not passed fifty in eight Test innings this summer and has one century in his last 22 Tests. Alastair Cook averages 5.00 with a highest score of 12 in the series so far.
Matt Prior and MS Dhoni have both played six Tests in 2011, but with very different results with the bat:
Name
M
Inns
No
Runs
HS
Avge
SR
100
50
Matt Prior
6
8
1
496
126
70.85
91.51
3
2
MS Dhoni
6
10
0
146
74
14.60
42.56
0
1
Ravi Bopara is the epitome of the "streaky" batsman.
The Essex all-rounder averaged 8.40 in his first three Tests and 15.00 in his most recent four Tests, but in the three inbetween he averaged an impressive 118.33.
Virender Sehwag's batting average is appreciably better in Asia than outside:
Continent
M
Inns
No
Runs
HS
Avg Bat
SR
100
50
Asia
57
96
5
5,603
319
61.57
84.28
17
21
Outside Asia
30
54
1
2,091
195
39.45
76.14
5
6
Tim Bresnan has won his first eight Tests. Here are the best starts to Test careers in terms of most wins from the start: