1.   Melnick flew on the maiden test flight of the shuttle Endeavour, which Ross will next ride to his appointment with the space station.

2.   A maiden test century by Andrew Flintoff and a ton by Graham Thorpe Friday have given England a stranglehold of the first test at Lancaster Park.

3.   Gibbs hit two sweetly-timed sixes off slow medium bowler Chris Harris as he continued with his maiden test century.

4.   He reached his maiden test century in only his sixth test after replacing the injured opener Blair Pocock, who returned home with a broken toe.

5.   India owed its impressive score to young opener Ramesh who was unlucky to miss his maiden test century by four runs.

6.   It was only five weeks ago at this same venue that Chanderpaul passed his maiden test century in the third test.

7.   Left-hander Kumar Sangakkara overcame the jinx of the nineties to post his maiden test century before the Indian batsmen crashed to their doom.

8.   Martyn, who scored his maiden test century in the series opener at Edgbaston, batted flawlessly and smashed the second new ball for five boundaries before losing Katich.

9.   Only Jacobs showed a modicum of resistance as he moved toward a possible maiden test century.

10.   Sangakkara, however, continued his vigilant knock and struck three boundaries to remain on course for his maiden test century.