Stat Fact - Australia v India
Tuesday, December 30 2003
Some stats from - Australia v India at Melbourne, 4th test.
Virender Sehwag -
195 was his highest test score & 5th test century.
Sehwag's 195 was the highest score by an Indian at Melbourne, surpassing Sunil Gavaskar's 118 in 1977-78.
Sehwag's 195 was the highest total scored in a single days play by a batsman at the MCG.
Brett Lee -
Brett Lee's test bowling average goes above 30 for the first time in his carear.
He now has 135 wickets at an average of 30.55 .
Ricky Ponting -
Ponting's 257 was his highest test score, his 20th test century & 3rd test double century, he now sits in equal 17th place with 4 other players on the test centuries scored list.
Ponting's 242 at Adelaide & 257 at the MCG is the 11th instance of a player scoring 2 double centuries in a series, Don Bradman is the only player to have scored 3 double hundreds in a series.
Ponting's 257 was the highest test score by an Australian against India, surpassing the 242 he scored in the previous test.
It was the 11th highest test score by an Australian & the 4th highest test score at the MCG.
Ricky Ponting's 257 makes him the 5th man to score double centuries in consecutive matches, Graeme Smith (RSA), Don Bradman (AUS), Vinod Kambili (IND) & Walter Hammond (ENG) are the only other players to achieve this feat.
Ponting's scores of 257 & 31* take him to 634 runs at an average of 126 for the current series, he now needs just 69 runs to take George Headley's record for most runs in a 4 test series, set in 1930 against England.
Ponting's match aggregate of 288 takes him to 1503 test runs for the calendar year at an average of 100.2, this is the most runs ever made in a calendar year by an Australian & the second most ever in a calendar year, Viv Richards 1710 in 1976 still holds the record though.
It is also just the 3rd instance of a batsman scoring over 1000 runs at an average of better than 100 in a year & the 2nd instance of a batsman scoring 3 double centuries in a year.
Ponting's 257 takes him past 1000 runs against India, he now has 1158 runs in 13 matches against them.
Steve Waugh -
Waugh has now scored 10807 runs in 167 test appearances, he needs a further 193 runs to become the second man to score 11,000 test runs, and a further 367 runs to overtake Allan Border & become the highest test runscorer of all time.
Rahul Dravid was Steve Waugh's 92nd test victim, Waugh will need an unlikely 8 wicket haul in Sydney to become the first man ever to score 10,000 runs & take 100 wickets in test matches.
Matthew Hayden -
Hayden's 136 was his 17th test match century .
He will play his 50th test match for Australia in Sydney.
Sachin Tendulkar -
Sachin made his 110th test appearance at the MCG & now sits equal 17th with Clive Lloyd on the most test appearances list.
Sachin now requires just 36 runs to become the 4th man to make 9000 runs in tests, he will be by far the youngest man to do so at just 30 years of age.
Ajit Agarkar -
Stuart MacGill was Ajit Agarkar's 50th test wicket, he achieved the milestone in 19 test matches.
Anil Kumble -
Anil's 6-176 in the 1st innings takes him to 370 test wickets, he is now the 12th highest test wicket taker of all time & the 2nd highest Indian wicket taker, he appears likely to pass Waqar Younis (373) & Malcom Marshall (376) on the wicket takers list in Sydney.
Brad Williams -
4-53 in the 2nd innings was Brad Williams best innings bowling figures in test cricket, his match haul of 5-119 is also a carear best.
Stuart MacGill -
Stuart's 5 wickets for the match take him to 146 test wickets, he will need a further 4 in Sydney to pass the 150 mark.
Adam Gilchrist -
Gilchrist now has 212 test dismissals, he needs 7 more to overtake TG Evans (who played 91 matches to achieve the milestone) & move up to 8th on the all time test dismissals list, however Gilchrist has by far the best dismissals / matches ratio.
This match was Gilchrist's 50th test for Australia.
Other -
Matthew Hayden & Ricky Ponting;s partnership of 234 came within 2 runs of the 2nd wicket record for Australia against India, which still stands at 236 by Don Bradman & Sid Barnes in 1947.
Australia & India have now met 9 times in tests at Melbourne with Australia winning 6, India winning 2 & 1 draw.
The sides have met on seven occasions at the SCG, the venue for Friday's 4th test, Australia have won on 3 occasions with 1 win to India & 3 draws.
Posted by DavidH
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