Australia vs India, 2018-19: 1st Test, Day 4 – Statistical Highlights

Team India needs another six wickets on the final day to win a Test match in Australia as the hosts need another 219 runs to chase down the 323-run target. India batted two hours in the morning without losing a wicket but collapsed from 234/3 to 307/10 including the last four wickets for just four runs. The bowlers did step up and reduced them to 104/4 at stumps on day 4. Shaun Marsh, who has had single digits in his previous six innings, will resume at 31 on the final day.

All the major stats and numbers that were recorded during the 4th day’s play:

Double marathon from Pujara:

4 – Cheteshwar Pujara became only the 4th Indian to face 200 and more deliveries in both the innings of an away Test match. Vijay Hazare in the 1948 Adelaide Test against Australia, MAK Pataudi in the 1967 Leeds Test against England and Rahul Dravid in the 2009 Napier Test against New Zealand faced 200+ balls in both innings.

1994 – Pujara is the first player in nearly 24 years to face 200+ balls in both the innings of a Test match in Australia. The last one to do this was Peter Kirsten in the 1994 Test against Australia also in Adelaide.

Lyon troubles Indian batters yet again:

1 – As many as five batsmen in this Indian playing XI have been dismissed by Nathan Lyon on most occasions in their Test career: Cheteshwar Pujara (8), Ajinkya Rahane (7), Virat Kohli (6), Ishant Sharma (6) and Rohit Sharma (5).

25 – Lyon has taken 25 wickets in three Test matches against India at the Adelaide Oval. Only Muttiah Muralitharan (29 at SSC, Colombo) and James Anderson (28 at Lord’s) have picked up more Test wickets against India than Lyon at a venue.

Muralitharan at the SSC Ground in Colombo and Lyon at the Adelaide Oval are the only spin bowlers with as many as three five-fers against India at a venue.

Dealing it in maximums:

9 – Number sixes India hit in this Test match; the joint-most by them in an away Test match. They hit nine sixes each in the 2006 Faisalabad Test against Pakistan, 2007 The Oval against England and the 2017 Colombo Test against Sri Lanka.

These nine sixes are also the most for India in a Test match in Australia surpassing the eight they hit in the 2015 Sydney Test which was their last Test in this part of the world.

No-ball spoils Ishant’s party:

0/1 – Australia were reduced to 0/1 for the second time in the game when Ishant Sharma dismissed Aaron Finch for the second time in the game for a duck before replays ruled it as a no-ball.

Had it not been a no-ball, this would have been only the 4th instance when Australia were 0/1 twice in a Test match and for the first time in 43 years.

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