A look at all the records that were created and where the combatants sit in history from an enthralling Test series
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2.37 – Australia’s Win/Loss Ratio in Tests at Home, the second best for any team in history of Cricket. Only Pakistan (2.54) have better results than Australia when playing on home soil although haven’t played in Pakistan since March 2009. Next is Sri Lanka (1.81).
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Aussies claim 2-0 series win after thrilling draw. Recap and highlights here: http://t.co/PzKIe1IiHM #AUSvIND pic.twitter.com/o248MHUuMn
— cricket.com.au (@CricketAus) January 10, 2015
692 – Number of runs Virat Kohli scored in the series, the most by any visiting batsman in a four-Test series in Australia and also most by anyone from subcontinent irrespective of number of matches. Overall Kohli sits at fifth, only Wally Hammond, Alastair Cook, Herbert Sutcliffe and Aubrey Faulkner had been more prolific than him but they all achieved it in five matches.
Image Id: ~/media/E408D1140C67492180788A30195600F026 – The age of Virat Kohli.
The young India captain also hit four centuries in the series, three of them as skipper and became first ever batsman in history to score hundred in first three innings as captain. Kohli also completed 10 hundreds in Tests on the day-three at SCG, putting him in some elite company.
Image Id: ~/media/68E7BEF9437F4311A8FBECA504F921EAThe 26-year-old Virat Kohli started the series with twin centuries at Adelaide, where he was also stand-in captain in absence of the then skipper MS Dhoni. He became the youngest captain ever to hit hundred in each innings of Test.
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5 – Number of Ducks Suresh Raina has bagged in his past seven innings in Tests. He followed his first innings golden duck with three-ball zero in the second innings where he was trapped LBW by Mitchell Starc. It was second time in his Test career that he has bagged a pair and became the only second Indian top order batsman (1-7) after Mohinder Amarnath to have two pairs (a duck in each innings of a Test).
Suresh Raina now has 5 Ducks in his last seven innings in Tests which read: 0, 0, 0, 55, 3, 0, 0. #AusvInd
— Mazher Arshad (@cricket_U) January 10, 2015
50 – Number of wickets Mitchell Starc has taken in Tests. The Suresh Raina duck was the 50th dismissal of his career. Starc is the ninth left-arm pacer from Australia to have 50 Test wickets and is the youngest (24 years and 345 days) among them, surpassing Bruce Reid who was 25y 185d when he completed fifty of wickets in 1988.
29 – Number of years since Australia and India played back to back draws in the same Test series. Last time it happened was in 1986 when Australia toured India to play the three-Test series. Interestingly, none of the matches of that series produced a winner as the first match was famously tied in Chennai.
21.68 – The disparity between averages of runs scored by tail of both the teams. Australia’s batsmen from position eight to eleven scored 372 runs in the series at average of 37.20, which is 21.68 higher than that of India’s (15.52).
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Australia batted eight times in the series and on just two occasions were India able to bowl them out.
Five times the Aussies declared the innings while once they successfully chased the target at Brisbane. The following table illustrates how poor India bowlers performed in the series as compared to Australians.
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