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Stat Fact - Australia v India

Thursday, January 8 2004

Stat Fact Australia v India, 4th test at Melbourne

Steve Waugh

Stephen finishes his carear after 168 appearances.

He sits in 11th place on the most test catches list, with 112 catches.

He sits in 2nd place on the leading test runscorers list, with 10927 runs.

He sits in 2nd place on the most test half centuries list, with 50 half centuries.

He sits in equal 2nd place on the most test centuries list, with 32 centuries.

Stephen captained Australia in 57 test matches, this is the 3rd most matches as captain in test history, after Allan Border (93) & Clive Lloyd (74).

Stephen won 41 matches as captain, the most wins in charge in test history.

Waugh won 71.93% of his games as captain, easily the best winning percentage of any captain in test history.

He also prides himself on the fact just 7 (12.28%) of his matches in charge ended in draws.

Just 2 of those draws (v New Zealand at Perth in 2001 & v India at Sydney in 2004) were not rain affected.

Sachin Tendulkar

Sachin's 241* is his highest test score & the second highest test score by an Indian, after VVS Laxman’s 281 against Australia in March 2001.

Sachin has now made 9265 test runs, he is the youngest man at 30 years of age to reach 9000 test runs, he is the second fastest in terms of innings batted to reach 9000, West Indian Brian Lara achieving the feat in 2 innings less.

Sachin's 241* was his 32nd test century, he now sits in equal second place on the all time most centuries list, he sits in 4th place on the most test runs list.

This is the 10th occasion Sachin has been named man of the match in a test match.

Sachin has now scored 1789 test runs against Australia, he has overtaken Allan Border as the leading run scorer in Australia v India test matches.

VVS Laxman

This was Laxman's 50th test appearance.

Laxman's 178 was his 7th test century, his 4th against Australia.

After his partnership with Sachin Tendulkar, Laxman is now one of only 3 players in test history to share in 3 partnerships of 300+.
Don Bradman & Javed Miandad are the only others.

Anil Kumble

Anil's match haul of 12-279 is his first 10 wicket hall outside of the subcontinent.

Anil's haul takes him past Waqar Younis & Malcom Marshall on the highest test wicket takers list, he now sits in 10th place with 382 wickets at an average of 28.3.

The wicket of Matthew Hayden was Anil's 50th against Australia, he now has 61 wickets in 10 tests against the Aussies.

This was Anil's 23rd haul of 5 wickets in an innings & his 5th hall of 10 in a match.

8/141 is Anil's 2nd best innings bowling analysis, 10/74 against Pakistan being his best.

Justin Langer

Justin's 117 was his 17th test century & third against India.

Justin also moved past 5000 test runs in the 2nd innings.

Simon Katich

Simon's 125 was his 1st test century & 24th first class century.

Matthew Hayden

This was Matthew Hayden's 50th test match.

Ricky Ponting

Ricky will become the 42nd man to captain Australia in test cricket, he will be the first Tasmanian.

Virender Sehwag

Virender brought up his 1500th test run during this match.

Other

Sachin Tendulkar & VVS Laxman's partnership of 353 is a new Indian record for the 4th wicket, it is the 2nd highest partnership in Indian test history, Laxman has been involved in the 2 highest Indian partnerships.

The total match attendance of 189,989 for this match is the 2nd highest ever for a Sydney test match.

Posted by DavidH