Nottingham, July 29 : Bowling England out for 221 after putting them in to bat in overcast conditions, India’s pacers shared opening day honours between them with three wickets apiece. If it wasn’t for a brave counter-attack from Stuart Broad (64 off 66), the England scorecard would’ve been significantly less wholesome. Last year, India let another team off the hook, allowing them to forge a fifty-run stand for the ninth wicket. Read on to find out more.

· This is India’s 50th Test match on England soil – the most they have played in any country outside India. India have played 45 Tests in the Caribbean, 36 in Australia, 26 in Pakistan, 21 in New Zealand, 18 in Sri Lanka, 15 in South Africa, seven in Bangladesh and six in Zimbabwe - a total of 224 overseas Tests.

Sachin Tendulkar is playing his 100th Test match outside India. He is the first player to appear in 100 overseas Tests; Rahul Dravid is second with 88 appearances.

Players with most overseas appearances

· MS Dhoni is playing his 100th first-class match.

· Dhoni put the opposition in to bat after winning the toss for the third consecutive time. Overall, this was the fifth such instance for Dhoni. The record: Won one, Lost one, Drawn two.

· With Ian Bell’s catch, Dhoni became the tenth wicketkeeper in Test cricket to hold 100 catches on away soil. The others are - Mark Boucher (217), Ian Healy (161), Adam Gilchrist (147), Jeff Dujon (144), Wasim Bari (138), Kamran Akmal (125), Rod Marsh (123), Deryck Murray (117) and Ridley Jacobs (107).

· Matt Prior’s catch was Rahul Dravid’s 400th in international cricket – 204 in Tests and 196 in ODIs. Dravid later extended his tally to 401. Dravid’s tally includes 329 catches taken in the field and 72 as keeper.

Most catches in international cricket

· Stuart Broad (64) scored his eighth fifty (apart from a hundred) in his 38th Test – his second in the series after an unbeaten 74 in the second innings of the Lord’s Test.

· Stuart top-scored in a completed innings for just the second time in his Test career. The only other such instance was against South Africa at Leeds in 2008 when Broad made an unbeaten 67 out of England’s total of 327. He was batting at No. 9 on that occasion too.

· The 73-run partnership between Broad and Graeme Swann is England’s fourth-highest for the ninth wicket against India. The highest is 102 between Matthew Hoggard and Craig White, also at Nottingham, in 2002.

· England’s total of 124 for eight is the lowest ever from where India conceded a 50-run partnership for the ninth wicket. India had also allowed New Zealand to forge a fifty-stand from an identical position last year. Nine of the top 10 such instances have come since 2000.

Lowest scores from where India conceded a 50-run partnership for the ninth wicket

· Abhinav Mukund got out on the first ball of the Indian innings. He had suffered a similar fate in the second innings of the Roseau Test against West Indies - trapped LBW by Fidel Edwards.

· Mukund provided the 16th known instance of an Indian opener getting dismissed off the very first ball of the innings. Sunil Gavaskar heads this list with five instances, followed by Virender Sehwag (2), Abhinav Mukund (2), Vinoo Mankad, Sudhir Naik, Krish Srikkanth, WV Raman, Sanjay Bangar, Shiv Sunder Das and Wasim Jaffer (once each).