England are looking to win their 50th Lord's Test. They have won 49, lost 28 and drawn 47 of their previous 124 matches at Headquarters.
Stuart Broad needs two wickets to become the 15th England bowler to take 200 Test wickets. Three wickets would make him just the fourth bowler to take 50 Test wickets at Lord's, after
| Name | M | Wkts | Avg | RPO | BB | 5l | 10M |
| | | | | | | |
| Ian Botham | 15 | 69 | 24.53 | 3.18 | 8-34 | 8 | 1 |
| Fred Trueman | 12 | 63 | 22.12 | 2.70 | 6-31 | 5 | 1 |
| James Anderson | 13 | 58 | 26.06 | 2.75 | 5-42 | 4 | 0 |
Broad would also be just the third Englishman with 1,500 Test run and 200 Test wickets, after Ian Botham and Andrew Flintoff.
Matt Prior needs one dismissal to break his three-way tie at the top of the list of most Test dismissals at Lord's:
| Name | M | Cts | Sts | Dis | Dis/M |
| | | | | |
| Matt Prior | 11 | 34 | 3 | 37 | 3.36 |
| Godfrey Evans | 13 | 25 | 12 | 37 | 2.84 |
| Alec Stewart | 20 | 36 | 1 | 37 | 1.85 |
Ian Bell will try to provide just the fourth incidence of an England batsman scoring centuries in three successive Ashes Tests:
Jack Hobbs 30/12/1911 09/02/1912 6 & 126* v Aus, 187 & 3 v Aus, 178 v Aus
Jack Hobbs 19/12/1924 16/01/1925 115 & 57 v Aus, 154 & 22 v Aus, 119 & 27 v Aus
Wally Hammond 14/12/1928 01/02/1929 251 v Aus, 200 & 32 v Aus, 119* & 177 v Aus
Chris Broad 28/11/1986 26/12/1986 162 & 16 v Aus, 116 & 15* v Aus, 112 v Aus
Bell is 43 short of becoming the eighth player to score 1,000 Test runs at Lord's.
England's eighth leg-bye will be their 10,000th in their Test history.
Here are how the four umpires in the series have performed under DRS in their careers so far:
| Umpire | Reviews | Overturned | %Overturned |
| | | |
| Aleem Dar | 75 | 14 | 18.67% |
| Tony Hill | 86 | 25 | 29.07% |
| Marais Erasmus | 47 | 17 | 36.17% |
| Kumar Dharmasena | 19 | 7 | 36.84% |
