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Tri-series stats point to good World Cup omens

Maxwell emulates Lehmann, the Waugh twins and O'Donnell while Starc enters elite company

62.50 The winning percentage of Australia in one-day international tournament finals. Australia beat England by 112 runs in the final of the Carlton Mid ODI Tri-series at the WACA on Sunday night.

South Africa have won 17 out of 28 finals they have played in.

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This table includes results from the best-of-three finals format after multi-team ODI tournaments

20 – Australia have won twenty multi-team ODI tournaments on home soil, from 33 series (a winning percentage of 60.60). West Indies have won six tournaments.

However, there has been a drop in the number of tri-series tournaments. The previous one was held in 2012 which Australia won after beating Sri Lanka 2-1 in a best-of-three playoff.

91.66 Australia’s winning percentage in ODIs in the 2014-15 season.

Since October, Australia has played 12 ODIs, winning 11 of them. The sole lose came against South Africa in Perth.

They beat Pakistan 3-0 in the UAE in October, 4-1 South Africa at home in November and now have won the Carlton Mid ODI Tri-Series without losing a game.

A winning percentage like that should serve them as good omen ahead of ICC Cricket World Cup, which is now less than a fortnight away.

3  Glenn Maxwell has been dismissed in 90s three times in his ODI career.

Maxwell was caught behind at Perth when he top edged a short ball off Stuart Broad on 95, his highest score in 50-over international cricket.

His previous two 90s were against India at Ranchi in 2013 and Zimbabwe at Harare last year.

Maxwell at the moment is only batsman in ODI history who has three dismissals in the nervous nineties without a century under his belt.

He has also bagged three scores in the nineties in the Indian Premier League in 2014.

Maxwell also passed 1000 career ODI runs during his innings in Perth, the 39th Australian to reach this milestone. Steve Smith reached the same mark earlier in the series.

6 Number of Australian allrounders who have recorded a fifty and taken four wickets in the same ODI.

Maxwell (95 off 98 balls and 4-46) is latest in the club.

The previous five were: Shane Watson, Darren Lehmann, Mark Waugh, Simon O’Donnell and Steve Waugh.

Only one among them has the double of a fifty and a five-wicket haul: Mark Waugh did it against the West Indies at the MCG in 1992 with 57 runs and 5-24.

24 The number of balls James Faulkner needed to reach 50.

It was second time in his career that Faulkner completed a half-century in less than 25 balls. The previous occasion came during his match-winning knock of an unbeaten 64 from 29 balls against India at Mohali in 2013.

He is the only batsman from Australia to have two 50s with a strike rate above 200.

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502Stuart Broad passed the milestone of 500 international wickets (Tests, ODIs and T20 internationals combined) in Perth, becoming only the third English bowler to do so when he dismissed Australian captain George Bailey.

The leading wicket-taker from England is Broad's current new-ball partner James Anderson.

89 – The number of runs conceded by the wicketless Chris Woakes, the second-worst return for any bowler in a final of an ODI tournament.

The unwanted record belongs to Muthiah Muralidaran, who was taken for 99 runs in 10 overs in a final against Australia at Sydney in 2006.

Woakes’ figures (10-0-89-0) is also the fourth most expensive spell by an England bowler in ODIs.

5.66 – The batting average of George Bailey in the Carlton Mid ODI Tri-Series is the second lowest for any Australian captain who batted at least three times in a series.

The lowest is 5.33 by Allan Border in the Benson & Hedges World Championship of 1985.

Bailey scored just 17 runs in the series at 5.66.

247 & 12 – Most runs and wickets in the Carlton Mid ODI Tri-Series 2015. England’s Ian Bell led the batting charts by scoring 247 runs at 61.75 while Australia’s Mitchell Starc was top among bowlers with 12 scalps at 16.33 and impressive strike rate of 19.9.

3 – Starc's player-of-the-series award was his third such accolade in his 33-game career.

Only two Australians have more than three player-of-the-series awards – Andrew Symonds (4) and Ricky Ponting (7).

Only one other Australian fast bowler besides Starc has three player-of-the-series awards – the recently retired Brett Lee.