Ashes 2017-18: 1st Test, Day 3 – Statistical Highlights

Here are the stats and numbers from the day that saw the Australian dominance.

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Josh Hazlewood of Australia celebrates after taking the wicket of Alastair Cook of England during day three of the First Test Match of the 2017/18 Ashes Series. (Photo by Ryan Pierse/Getty Images)

Australian captain Steven Smith led the charge with an unbeaten hundred on the 3rd day to hand his team an important first innings lead. After a heap of wickets in the morning session, Smith batted with the lower order to complete his 21st Test hundred and gain his team a 26-run lead. The Aussie attack managed to take out two wickets before England overcame the deficit.

Here are the stats and numbers from the day that saw the Australian dominance:

1 – Number of times a team lost a Test match after taking in a first innings lead in the 59 Test matches played at the Gabba before this game. England lost to Australia in 1990 after taking a 42-run lead in the first innings.


2.51 – Australia’s run-rate in the first innings is their lowest at home since 1999 in an innings in which they batted for over 100 overs. In these 18 years, Aussies batted 100 overs in an innings at home under a rate of three runs on only three other occasions.


3 – Number of hundreds for Smith as a captain in the Test matches at Brisbane. Greg Chappell scored four hundreds as skipper at this venue while Ricky Ponting and Michael Clarke also made three tons each.


105 – Innings Steven Smith needed for scoring his 21st century in Test cricket. These are the 3rd fewest innings taken by any player after Donald Bradman (56) and Sunil Gavaskar (98).


119 – Runs Australia accumulated for their last three wickets. These are the 2nd most runs they made for the last three wickets in an innings in a home Ashes Test in the last 70 years. They made 120 runs in first innings of the Brisbane Test in 1998.


141* – Smith’s 141* is the highest individual score for any player in their maiden innings as Ashes captain. The previous highest was 133 by Australia’s Monty Nobel back in 1903. Overall, Smith’s hundred made him the 8th player to score a century on captaincy debut in the Ashes.


261 – His 261-ball century is the slowest by an Australian in Test cricket since Simon Katich’s 262-ball against New Zealand in 2010. This is also the slowest century by an Australia captain since Allan Border’s 276-ball hundred in 1987 against New Zealand. Smith’s previous slowest hundred was off 227 balls against India in Ranchi earlier this year.

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