Michael Vaughan's blistering 182 not out at The Oval made him only the sixth person to make four Test hundreds in an English summer, and took his average in Tests in England to a mighty 65.27 - higher than any other Englishman who has played 10 or more Tests on home soil. Our graph shows where Vaughan scored his runs. As always, the covers and midwicket were his most profitable areas, with some handsome drives on both sides of the wicket. And after a relatively watchful start, he went straight from second- to fifth-gear: Vaughan's first fifty took 92 balls, the second 103 - and the third just 35 as he made England's Headingley nemesis Anil Kumble look like a part-timer. In all, Vaughan helped himself to 68 runs off 78 Kumble deliveries without breaking sweat.

Before this summer Vaughan had made 810 runs in 16 Tests at an average of 31.15. Since then he's slammed 840 in seven matches at a stunning 93.33. When various sages said that this was the year for Vaughan to establish himself, not even they can have expected this.

Rob Smyth is on the staff of Wisden.com.

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