Pant makes a mark

Rishabh Pant is now the youngest Test wicketkeeper to register a score of more than 150 and the first Asian to aggregate 350 or more runs and claim 20 or more dismissals in a single Test series, and more.

Rishabh Pant celebrates his century at Sydney.

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Rishabh Pant’s age when he scored an unbeaten 159 at Sydney. At 21 years, 92 days, he is now the youngest wicketkeeper in Test history to register a score of more than 150.

Youngest wicketkeepers to make 150-plus scores in Tests

Note: Taibu was also the captain.

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The number of wicketkeepers to aggregate 350 or more runs and also claim 20 or more dismissals in a single Test series. Rishabh Pant is now the latest to do so, becoming the first Asian to achieve this rare feat.

Wicketkeepers with 350-plus runs and 20-plus dismissals in a Test series

1,258

The number of balls faced by Cheteshwar Pujara in the just-concluded series is now the most faced by an Indian batsman in a Test series against Australia.

Most balls faced in a Test series by an Indian batsman

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The number of visiting sides that have the distinction of winning a Test series in Australia. India now becomes the first Asian team to do so. England has obviously won the most times – 13 – the first coming way back in March 1885.

Visiting sides winning a Test series in Australia

Note: South Africa have won its last three Test series in Australia.

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The number of Indian captains who have the distinction of winning an away Test series. Virat Kohli, incidentally, became the first Asian to win a Test series in Australia.

Indian captains winning away Test series

* Dravid was the stand-in captain for the first Test that India won and the second that it lost. Ganguly returned for the third Test, which India won.

** Sehwag captained India in the second second Test that was drawn.

# Sehwag captained India in the first Test that India won.

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The number of times the Indian bowlers have not allowed the opposition batsmen to register a three-figure score in a Test series of four or more matches. The series in Australia was the first time India has been able to do so in a Test series away from home.

Fewest centuries scored by the opposition batsmen against India in a Test series of four or more matches

 

Note: All figures above are updated as on January 12, 2019.