By the numbers: Smith's super stats

114.60 – Steve Smith’s batting average at the MCG, the second highest for any batsman with at least five innings at the ground. Smith is only behind the legendary Don Bradman who has 1671 runs in 17 innings at 128.53. Smith’s last five innings at the MCG have delivered scores of 100no against Pakistan, 70no and 134no against West Indies, 14 and 192 against India.

17 – The number of hundreds Smith has scored in his Test career. Although he is playing his 49th Test all of his centuries have come in the last 38 matches. Just three other batsmen in the history have scored 17 or more centuries during a stretch of 38 Tests at any point of the career. Don Bradman hit 23 hundreds in 38 Tests from1928-1946, while Sachin Tendulkar and Matthew Hayden both had 17 from 1997-2002 and 2001-2004 respectively.

2 – The number of batsmen from Australia to score 1000 or more runs in Tests in three consecutive calendar years. Smith is just the second to achieve the feat after former opening batsman Matthew Hayden who incredibly had 1000 runs in five consecutive years from 2001 to 2005. Smith took his this year’s tally to the four digits during the course of his unbeaten 100 at the MCG. He had scored 1474 runs in the previous year whereas in 2014 he piled 1146 runs.

3634 – The number of runs Smith has amassed in Tests since 2014, the second most by any batsman and just five runs short from England’s Joe Root who has 3639 runs in this period. Root (38) though has played five more Tests than Smith (33).

33 – The number of innings taken by Smith to complete 2000 runs in Tests as captain. Of the 43 players who have scored 2000 runs as a leader, Smith is the fifth fastest in terms of innings. Only Mahela Jayawardene, Michael Clarke (32), Graham Gooch (29) and Bradman (24) have taken fewer innings than Smith to scored 2000 runs as captain.

73.71 – Smith’s batting average as captain, the second highest among the 85 skippers who have at least scored one thousand runs. He is just behind Bradman (3147 runs at 101.51).

7 – The number of batsmen from Australia who failed to reach 100 after being in 90s overnight. Usman Khawaja ended the day three on 95 and got out three runs shy of his sixth hundred in Tests and first against the country of his birth at the start of day four. The six Australian batsmen before him who were out in 90s in this fashion were: Shane Watson (2009), Adam Gilchrist (2005), Greg Blewett (1997), Graham Yallop (1983), Bob Cowper (1965) and Colin McCool (1946).

5 – The number of Australia batsmen who recorded a half-century in each of their first three Tests. Peter Handscomb is just the fifth to achieve this and first since Michael Bevan in 1994. The other three are: Bill Brown in 1934, Herbie Collins in 1921 and Frank Iredale in 1895. Collins scored a fifty in the next Test too and is the only Australian to register a 50 in each of the first four Tests.

4.41 – Yasir Shah’s economy rate in the innings. It is the highest in his career when he bowled more than ten overs in innings. Yasir has been taken for 150 runs from 34 overs by Australian batsmen at the MCG.

5.00 – Wahab Riaz’s economy rate in the innings, his second worst in a Test innings in which he bowled more than 10 overs. He has given 135 runs in 27 overs at the MCG. He conceded 59 runs in 11 overs at an Economy of 5.36 against West Indies at St Kitts in 2011 which are his worst figures.

92 – The number of runs conceded by no balls by Pakistan in 11 Tests in 2016, the most by any team. Sixty of those no balls have been bowled by Wahab Riaz, including a dozen in the ongoing Test at the MCG. Next is West Indies, who have leaked 62 runs through no balls in seven matches. Australia have conceded 25 in 11 Tests. The most impressive team is New Zealand releasing only 11 sundries in as many matches.

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