Most people knew it, and now the Wisden Wizard has confirmed it: Trent Bridge is the smoothest shirtfront in England - and by a comfortable margin too. In Tests there, runs have been scored at an average of 32.69 per wicket - or an average innings score of 327. The next-highest, The Oval, has an average of 312. It won't surprise anybody that the feistiest pitch in England is in Yorkshire … but it's actually Bramall Lane, Sheffield, not Headingley, Leeds. The one Test at Bramall Lane, between England and Australia in 1902, was a low-scoring affair. But of the regular Test grounds, Headingley is at the bottom, and the only one to have an average innings score below 300.

Oddly, runs come at a rate of 2.61 per over at Trent Bridge - the slowest of the seven Test grounds in England. But it's quantity not speed that counts, and with India's pop-gun attack looking like they'd struggle in a coconut shy during the first Test, this looks to be a good place and time for Robert Key to make his debut.

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