Captain Kohli cements his place in history

4 – Virat Kohli became only the third Indian captain to score a century in his first Test as skipper of the side with his 115 on day three in Adelaide.

Kohli was the first Indian skipper to post a ton on his captaincy debut since Dilip Vengsarkar in 1987.

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Kohli is also the fourth Indian captain to score a century in Australia at any point during his tenure. His 115 follows in the footsteps of Sourav Ganguly (144, Brisbane 2003), Sachin Tendulkar (116, Melbourne December 1999) and Mohammad Azharuddin (106, Adelaide 1992).

1220 – The number of days since India last posted an opening partnership of more than 50-runs outside of Asia.

After Ryan Harris bowled Shikar Dhawan yesterday with the score on 30, the wait goes on for India's openers.

The last was Gautam Gambhir Abhinav Mukund who scored 63 in 18.2 overs against England at Lord's in July 2011.

The best partnership this year so far has been 49 in the 1^st Test v England at Nottingham.

73 – Cheteshwar Pujara's innings on day three was his best score of 2014, and his second fifty of the year. However, his average of 23.66 in 2014 is a far cry from his prolific run-scoring of 2012 and 2013, when he scored three centuries each year.

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6 – Four of the first five Indian batsmen all made it past 50 yesterday, with only Dhawan (25) missing out. Kohli lead the way with his century, but Murali Vijay (53), Pujara (73), and Ajinkya Rahane (62) all achieved milestones.

It was the sixth time in Indian cricket history it had happened, and the first occurrence for five years. The last was against New Zealand in Napier in 2008-09.

139.5 – The number of overs bowled in this match before Vijay hit the first six of the match. It came from the bowling of Nathan Lyon.

67 – Australia has declared their innings closed with more than 500 on the board 67 times in Test cricket, the most by any nation. The next most common is England, with the captain waving in his batsmen on 51 occasions.

Of the past five innings against India at home, Australia have declared four times.

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29 – With the wickets of Vijay and Kohli, Mitchell Johnson took his tally of Indian scalps to 29 to move ahead of Richie Benaud. With another three Tests, Johnson will be eyeing up Clarrie Grimmett and perhaps even the team's fast bowling coach Craig McDermott.

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