Australia bounce back nailing England in the 2nd Test, The Ashes 2015, 2nd Test - Statistical Review

Australia bounce back nailing England in the 2nd Test, The Ashes 2015, 2nd Test – Statistical Review: After winning the first test in quite a convincing way, the Australian squad fought back in the most thunderous possible way in the second test of the Ashes at Lord’s to square the 5-match series 1-1. Australia simply outplayed England in all departments of the game and inflicted a swift and nailing victory in the second test. As a matter of fact, the Aussies won the game in the fourth day of the test by a margin of 405 runs. To loiter through the different aspects of the game in a statistical way, let us figure out the numbers and statistics of the match.

The Match in Numbers:

• Highest Run scorer of the Match: Steve Smith (273 runs)
• Highest Wicket taker of the Match: Mitchell Johnson (30.1–11–80–6)
• Number of Fours Hit by Australia/England in the 1^st innings: 74/41
• Number of Fours Hit by Australia/England in the 2^nd innings: 31/15
• Total Runs Scored: 1125/30

The other statistical facts:

• Australia won the match by a margin of 405 runs. This happens to be the 9^th largest victory in the history of test cricket judging by runs.
• James Anderson failed to take a single wicket in the test. This happened to be the first time that Anderson went wicketless in a test at the Lord’s. He has played a total of 18 tests at Lord’s.
• Australia had set a total of over 500 runs for the opposition in the fourth innings for 28 times and with their victory in this test, they happen to win it 27 times and just one has ended as a draw.
• After a span of 81 years, Steve Smith became the 1st Australian batsman to strike in a double century and a fifty in the same Ashes test.
• Chris Rogers was retired hurt in the second innings and he became the 9^th Australian opener to have left the ground retired hurt and not resuming his innings.
• Warner and Rogers managed to put on a 50+ stand in both the innings of the test. They have now 14, 50+ opening stands in the last two years. No other pair has more than 5.
• This was the 4^th time where Clarke could have enforced a follow on in a test but he didn’t and went on to win each of the 4 tests.
• Alastair Cook was dismissed at the score of 96 runs in the first innings of the test. This was the 7^th time he was dismissed in the 90s which stands to be the most by any English batsman.
• Alastair Cook has played 22 Ashes innings without scoring a century. He had 3 hundreds in 6 innings prior to that.
• For as many as 4 times, England’s 5^th wicket pair has posed a partnership of 100+ runs after losing the first 4 wickets within 40 or less runs.
• Steve Smith holds a batting average of 58.68 and he stands to be the third best batsman in test cricket by virtue of test batting average with a minimum of 2500 test runs.