India vs Australia, 2nd Test Day 3 Stats Review: Ravindra Jadeja’s best figures in Tests, India’s unbeaten streak in Delhi, and other stats

Ravindra Jadeja spun a web and wreaked havoc on the third morning of the second Test as he registered his career-best figures of 7/42 to bundle out the Australians for just 113 in 31.1 overs. Chasing a target of 115, skipper Rohit Sharma played a cameo of 31 off 20 while Cheteshwar Pujara, in his 100^th Test, remained unbeaten on 31 to snatch victory by six wickets for his side. With this, team India took a 2-0 lead in the series and retained the Border-Gavaskar Trophy.

Speaking about how things panned out on Day 3, Travis Head was dismissed for 43 off the bowling of Ravichandran Ashwin while Marnus Labuschagne lost his wicket to Jadeja for 35. From 85/2, the Aussies collapsed miserably as they ended up with only 113. Ashwin also picked up three wickets as the visitors had no clue whatsoever, yet again against the spin twins of India. 

Jadeja was at his lethal best as the Kangaroos crumbled against his spin variation. India’s domination in Test cricket on home soil extended as they also scripted their 11^th victory out of the last 13 in the capital city. After grabbing the Player of the Match award in the opening game in Nagpur, Jadeja bagged the same award again for figures of 3/68 and 7/42 and also 26 with the bat in the first innings. The action now moves to Indore for the third Test which is slated to begin on Wednesday, March 01.

 Meanwhile, here are some of the important stats and numbers from Day 3 of the 2^nd Test between India and Australia:

7/42 - Ravindra Jadeja registered his best figure of 7/42 in Test matches. His previous best of 7/48 came against England in Chennai in the year 2016.

25012 – Virat Kohli reached the landmark of 25000 runs in international cricket. He became the sixth player after Sachin Tendulkar (34357), Kumar Sangakkara (28016), Ricky Ponting (27483), Mahela Jayawardene (25957), and Jacques Kallis (25534) to achieve the feat.

549 – Kohli became the fastest cricketer to complete the milestone of 25000 runs across formats in just 549 innings. Tendulkar is in the second position for grabbing the feat in 577 innings.

15.90 – KL Rahul has managed to score just 175 runs in 11 innings at a poor average of 15.90 with one fifty in Tests since 2022.

4 – Jadeja is now tied with Cheteshwar Pujara in the second spot for winning the most Player of the Match awards (four) for India against Australia in Tests. Tendulkar tops the list with five such awards.

1 – For the first time in 180 innings, Kohli got stumped out in Test cricket.

8 – Steven Smith got dismissed by R Ashwin for the eighth time in Test cricket which is joint-second with James Anderson. Stuart Broad has got the better of Smith nine times in the longest format of the game.

129 – Ashwin is now joint-second with Harbhajan Singh for picking up the most wickets (129) against Australia across formats. Anil Kumble tops the list with 142 scalps.

13 – India is now undefeated in their last 13 Test matches at the Arun Jaitley Stadium in Delhi with 11 victories and two draws since 1993.

20 – Australia has now lost 20 games with just five wins and eight draws in 33 matches in Asia since October 2008.

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