India vs Australia: The come-from-behind series win in numbers

4

The number of times India has managed to win a three- or four-match Test series after losing the first match.

+ Kohli was the captain in the first three Tests.

# Kohli was the captain in the first Test.

9

The number of times Australia has lost a Test match at the Gabba in Brisbane in the 63 Tests played there since December 1931. The home side has won 40 of its Tests at the ground.

Australia’s defeats at the Gabba

Note: India became the first Afro-Asian side to win a Test match in Brisbane.

136

The number of innings Steve Smith took to reach his 27th Test century, during his knock of 131 against India at the Sydney Cricket Ground on January 8, is now the second-quickest. The great Don Bradman reached the mark in just 70 innings, doing so in January 1948, also against India. While Bradman was the first to reach the landmark, Smith is the 20th.

Fewest innings to register 27 Test centuries

Note: Smith is also the second-quickest to reach the landmark in terms of matches.

11

The number of times Steve Smith has scored a century and a fifty in the same Test match. His 131 and 81 against India in Sydney make him only the second batsman in Test cricket to achieve the double that many times, after South Africa’s Jacques Kallis.

Most times registering a century and a fifty in the same Test match

Notes:

- The tallies for Kallis, Border and Sangakkara include a century in each innings on two occasions.

- Ponting’s tally includes a century in each innings on three occasions.

- Kohli’s tally includes a century in each innings once.

- Neither Smith nor Cook have registered a century in each innings.

- Cook's first instance came on debut, while his last effort came in his final Test match – both against India.

14.28

Hanuma Vihari’s batting strike rate during his match-saving unbeaten 23 in 161 balls in the fourth innings of the Sydney Test match is one of the slowest by an Indian batsman while facing at least 150 deliveries. Yashpal Sharma registered a strike rate of 8.28 during his match-saving 13 off 157 balls in Adelaide in January 1981 – 40 years ago!

Slowest Test knocks by Indian batsmen (minimum 150 balls faced)

Notes:

- The above table only includes instances where the data for balls faced is available.

-Vihari’s match strike rate of 13.57 for his aggregate of 27 runs off 199 balls (4 in 38 balls and 23* in 161 balls) in Sydney is now also the second-slowest for India behind Rahul Dravid’s 11.66 for his aggregate of 21 runs off 180 balls (5 in 66 balls and 16 in 114 balls) in Melbourne in December 2007.

97

Rishabh Pant’s score during India’s run chase against Australia in Sydney is now the second-highest by an Indian wicketkeeper in the fourth innings of a Test match. He has the distinction of also scoring the highest. Pant joins Syed Kirmani and Deep Dasgupta to become the third Indian ’keeper to make fifty-plus scores twice in run chases. Pant’s 97 is now the eighth-highest by a wicketkeeper overall and the second-highest against Australia.

Fifty-plus scores in the fourth innings of a Test match by Indian wicketkeepers

Note: Pant’s 114 at the Oval is the third-highest score by a ’keeper in the fourth innings of a Test match.

Highest scores in the fourth innings of a Test match by wicketkeepers against Australia

26.54

Cheteshwar Pujara’s batting strike rate during his first-innings knock of 56 in 211 balls in the Brisbane game on January 19 is now the slowest 50-plus score of his Test career, ahead of his 50 off 179 balls (strike rate of 27.93) against South Africa in Johannesburg on January 24, 2018. His Brisbane knock is also his slowest to reach 50 in terms of balls, having got his half-century in 196 balls. His previous slowest was in the Sydney Test, where he needed 174 balls. Interestingly, his fourth-slowest fifty (in 170 balls) came in his second-innings knock of 77 in Sydney.

Slowest 50-plus Test scores by Cheteshwar Pujara

# first innings; ## second innings

All records updated at the end of the Brisbane Test match.