Australia vs England, 5th Ashes Test, Day 3 Stats Review: Joe Root adds unwanted record to his name as hosts retain Ashes urn

Pat Cummins and his team continued their utter dominance against England on home soil as Australia defeated the visitors by 146 runs on Day 3 of the fifth Test in Hobart. With this victory, the Kangaroos clinched the series 4-0, exactly the same scoreline which the English side suffered in the last Ashes series in 2017/18 down under.

Speaking of how Day 3 panned out, Mark Wood wreaked havoc with his hostile spell of bowling as he took 6 wickets for 37 runs, his career-best bowling figures, to bowl Australia out for just 155 runs in the second innings. Steve Smith was dismissed for 27 runs while centurion from the first innings. Travis Head didn’t do much as he too became a victim of Mark Wood for just eight runs. Wicketkeeper batter Alex Carey scored 49 runs as the visitors were set a target of 271 runs.

Rory Burns and Zak Crawley added 68 runs for the opening wicket, England’s highest in The Ashes since 2013, as the former was the first one to get dismissed by all-rounder Cameron Green for 26 runs. His partner Crawley was the highest scorer in the innings with 36 runs as England’s vulnerable and awful tour with the willow continued.

No other batter managed to reach even 20 runs mark as skipper Cummins along with Scott Boland and Cameron Green took three wickets each to hand England a thrashing of 146 runs eventually losing the Urn by a 4-0 margin. Travis Head was adjudged the Player of the Match for his century in the first innings and also the Player of the series for chalking up 357 runs at an average of 59.50.

Meanwhile, here are some of the stats and numbers from Australia vs England, 5^th Ashes Test Day 3:

6/37 – Mark Wood recorded his best bowling figures in Tests. His previous best was 5/41 which came against West Indies in 2019.

1 – With his spell of 6/37, Wood is now the bowler with the best figures for England in Day/night Test matches. He surpassed skipper Joe Root’s figures of 5/8 which came against India in 2021.

13 – England has now lost 13 out of 15 Ashes Tests in Australia since 2013. They have managed to draw two Test matches with zero wins.

5 – Sam Billings took five catches and is now joint-second with six other fielders for most catches in an innings on Test debut. Australia’s Wally Grout tops the chart for six catches on debut.

5 – Wood has now fifth-best figures (6/37) by an England bowler in The Ashes in the 21^st Century.

6 – Ben Stokes got dismissed to Mitchell Starc for the sixth time in his Test career. R Ashwin and Nathan Lyon have accounted for his wickets 11 and nine times respectively.

10 – Australia has now played ten Day/Night Tests and won all of them.

19.18 – The batting average of 19.18 by the England team is their lowest in a five-match Ashes series. Their second-lowest average read as 19.87 which they accumulated in the 1909 Ashes series.

3/21 – Cameron Green recorded his best bowling figures in a Test inning.

2 – Joe Root became the second England skipper with most defeats (10) in The Ashes. Archie MacLaren had lost 11 matches during his tenure as England captain.

34 – Australia has now won 34 out of the total 72 Ashes series played. The English side has won 32 with six series ended up in a draw.

68 – Rory Burns and Zak Crawley recorded the highest opening partnership for England in The Ashes since 2013. Michael Carberry and Alastair Cook had shared 85 runs opening stand in Perth.

33 – Pat Cummins has now taken 33 wickets in Day/Night Tests. He surpassed Josh Hazlewood’s tally of 32 scalps. Mitchell Starc and Nathan Lyon have 56 and 34 wickets respectively.

8 – Joe Root became the visiting captain with most Test defeats (8) in Australia. Clive Llyod had lost seven matches down under.

4 – Wood has now fourth-best bowling figures in Day/Night Test matches.

3 – Pat Cummins has now taken the most wickets in the last three Ashes series. The pacer was the highest wicket-taker in the 2017/18 and 2019 series with 23 and 29 wickets respectively.

2 – Second consecutive Ashes series victory by Australia in Australia by 4-0 margin.

8 – Root equaled Brian Lara (8) and is now joint-top with him for most Tests lost by a vising captain in a country. Lara had lost eight Test matches in South Africa.

23 – Ollie Pope has now scored just one half-century in his last 23 (including one not out) Test innings.

2 – With his hostile spell of 6/37, Wood recorded second-best figures in Test matches in Hobart. Legendary Australian spinner Shane Warne tops the list for his bowling figures of 6/31 vs New Zealand in 1993.

3 – Fast bowler Wood now has third-best figures (6/37) by an England bowler in The Ashes in Australia in the 21^st Century. Andrew Caddick took 7/94 in 2003 and Mathew Hoggard 7/109 in 2006.

10 – Joe Root has now lost ten out of 15 Ashes Tests as captain.