London, July 22: While Kevin Pietersen battled his way to an unbeaten double hundred, Praveen Kumar took his first five-wicket haul in Test cricket and MS Dhoni went past Syed Kirmani to become the Indian wicketkeeper with most catches against his name on Day 2 of the Lord’s Test. We bring you the stats highlights of a day studded with individual achievements.

• MS Dhoni, with Ian Bell’s catch, went past Syed Kirmani to become the Indian wicketkeeper with most catches. At the end of England’s innings, Dhoni took his tally of catches to 163. Kirmani, however, still holds the Indian record of most dismissals as a keeper with 198 dismissals (160 catches & 38 stumpings). Dhoni is second with 188 (163 catches & 25 stumpings).

• Kevin Pietersen (202*) scored his 18th Test century in his 75th Test – his fourth in his ninth Test against India. Interestingly,Pietersen had also scored a century against India in the first Test at Lord’s on the same day (22 July) in 2007.

• Pietersen's last home Test century was against South Africa at The Oval in August 2008 - on his captaincy debut. Since then he had played 20 innings without reaching the three-figure mark; he has finally ended the draught with an unbeaten double century.

• This was Pietersen’s third double century in Test cricket after 226 against West Indies at Leeds in 2007 and 227 against Australia at Adelaide in 2010-11. He has now moved to third place in the list of England batsmen with most double centuries. Now only Wally Hammond (7) and Len Hutton (4) are ahead of him.

• Pietersen, on 172, completed his 6,000 runs in Test cricket. He became the 12th England player to accomplish this feat after Graham Gooch (8,900), Alec Stewart (8,463), David Gower (8,231), Geoff Boycott (8,114), Mike Atherton (7,728), Colin Cowdrey (7,624), Wally Hammond (7,249), Len Hutton (6,971), Ken Barrington (6,806), Graham Thorpe (6,744) and Andrew Strauss (6,133).

• Having taken 75 Tests and 128 innings to complete 6,000 runs, Pietersen became the fourth fastest among the England players to reach the mark. Only Wally Hammond (114 innings), Len Hutton (116) and Ken Barrington (116) have done so in fewer innings for England.

• Pietersen and Matt Prior added 120 runs for the sixth wicket. Interestingly, these two have batted together only six times in Test cricket and have put on four century partnerships.

• By an odd coincidence, Pietersen and Prior had added 119 runs against India for the same wicket at the same ground on the same day (22 July) in 2007.

With strike-bowler Zaheer Khan not available because of injury, MS Dhoni decided to roll his arm over and almost got rid of Pietersen. Dhoni’s eight overs are the maximum bowled by an Indian keeper in an innings. This was the ninth instance when an Indian wicketkeeper rolled his arm over in a Test match. Dhoni has been involved in four of them. The complete details:

• Only three wicketkeepers have bowled more overs in an innings than Dhoni’s eight – England’s Bill Storer (16 overs v Australia at Melbourne in 1897-98) and Alfred Lyttelton (12 four ball overs v Australia at The Oval in 1884), and Australia’s Rod Marsh (10 overs v Pakistan at Faisalabad in 1979-80). Zimbabwe’s Tatenda Taibu also bowled eight overs against Sri Lanka at Harare in 2004.

• Praveen Kumar (five for 106) achieved his maiden five-wicket haul in Test cricket. His previous best was three for 38 (on debut) against West Indies at Kingston last month. Praveen became only the sixth Indian to take a five-for in his first appearance against England. The complete list, arranged in descending order of best performances, is given below:

• Praveen also became only the sixth Indian to take a five-for in his first Test in England. The details:

• Harbhajan Singh had a rather forgettable outing as he failed to pick up even one wicket despite bowling 35 overs and conceding 152 runs. This was, in fact, the second worst performance of his Test career. Harbhajan had gone wicketless against Pakistan after conceding 176 runs at Lahore in 2005-06.

• Before Gautam Gambhir and Abhinav Mukund opened the innings for India, there was only one instance of two left-handers opening the batting together for the side. It came in the second innings of the Delhi Test in 2005-06, when Irfan Pathan was promoted to open with Gambhir. Pathan’s was a make-shift arrangement, so Gambhir and Mukund became the first genuine left-handed opening pair for India.

• 364 runs were scored in 88.2 overs in the day – the fourth highest in a single day’s play in India-England Tests at Lord’s. The record is of 455 runs (for the loss of 10 wickets) on the second day in 1946. These two teams added 407 runs (for the loss of 10 wickets) on the fourth day in 1990. 379 runs were scored (for the loss of seven wickets) on the third day in 1952.