A look at the statistical highlights of the first ODI between England and South Africa at Leeds on Friday.

- England, after losing their previous two ODIs at Leeds (by 8 wickets to Sri Lanka on 1.7.2006 and by 38 runs to India on 2.9.2007) register a 20-run victory at this venue.

- England, after their 26-run triumph at Johannesburg on January 30, 2005, recorded their first victory against South Africa in eight games.

- England have now won both their ODIs against South Africa at Leeds. They had won their previous game by 7 wickets at this venue on 24.5.1998.

- England's 20-run triumph is their 12th in 36 games against South Africa (Lost 22, NR 1 and Tied 1). In England they have won 7 (last three in a row) and lost five out of 12 played.

- South Africa have lost all their three games at Headingley, Leeds. Apart from their two defeats to England, they had lost to Australia at this venue by 5 wickets on 13.6.1999.

- Kevin Pietersen's second fifty against South Africa is his 19th in ODIs.

- Pietersen has averaged 136.75 against South Africa - 547 in eight innings (four times not out), including three centuries and two fifties, with a strike rate of 103.79.

- Pietersen's 2 for 22 is his best bowling figures in ODIs, eclipsing his 1 for four against India at Jamshedpur on 12.4.2006.

- Pietersen and Flintoff put on 158 runs for the fourth wicket - England's best for this wicket-position against South Africa, eclipsing the 100 between Michael Vaughan and Flintoff at Edgbaston in 2003.

- The aforesaid partnership is the highest by any pair for the fourth wicket at Headingley, Leeds, surpassing the 126 between Ricky Ponting and Steve Waugh for Australia against South Africa in 1999.

- Pietersen, for the first time in his career, has recorded a fifty as well as claimed two wickets in the same ODI.

- Pietersen's eighth Man of the Match award in ODIs is his third against South Africa.

- Andrew Flintoff's 78 is his second fifty against South Africa - his 17th overall in ODIs.

- Flintoff's 78 (his highest innings against South Africa) is his first fifty in 18 innings. He had last recorded a fifty against New Zealand at Hobart on January 16, 2007 - 72 not out off 75 balls.

- Since making 87 against Australia at Lord's on July 10, 2005, Flintoff's 78 is his highest score.

- Jacques Kallis, during the course of his 66th ODI fifty (8th against England), became the first batsman to aggregate 1,000 runs in England-South Africa ODIs - 1011 (ave.36.10) in 32 games.