India vs Australia 3rd Test Day 2 Stats Review: Nathan Lyon's Brilliance, Ravi Ashwin's feat and other stats

Nathan Lyon’s eight-wicket haul in the second innings has put Australia in the driver-seat after they eked out an 88 run lead in the first innings. Aussies are on the verge of confirming the final spot in World Test Championship for the first time.

Speaking about how the day panned out, Australia after having the 47 runs lead started the day on positive note with Cameron Green and Peter Handscomb adding 31 more runs without losing wicket. However, Ravichandran Ashwin broke the partnership by setting up the latter.

Umesh Yadav then joined the party along with Ashwin as they both ran through the Australian lineup by picking up 5 wickets for 11 runs. Yadav, meanwhile, registered his 100^th home wicket and Australia were bowled out for 197 with the healthy lead of 88.

In the second innings, India succumbed to Lyon’s dominance as no batter other than Cheteshwar Pujara and Shreyas Iyer crossed the 25-run mark. Pujara survived 142 balls as he notched up his 35^th Test fifty and 10^th in Border-Gavaskar Trophy helping India post a total of 163.

For Australia, Nathan Lyon registered his second best figures of 8/64 in 23.3 overs. Aussies now need 76 runs to win the third match and confirm their place in the final of WTC 2021/23.

Meanwhile let us look at the stats and numbers from day 2 of third Test between India and Australia.

3 -Ravichandran Ashwin surpassed Kapil Dev and became the third leading wicket-taker for India across formats with tally of 689 wickets. Anil Kumble (953) tops the list followed by Harbhajan Singh (707).

113 -Nathan Lyon (113) surpassed Anil Kumble (111) to become the leading wicket-taker in the history of Border-Gavaskar Trophy.

5 -Umesh Yadav has taken 101 wickets at home and is now the fifth fast bowler after Kapil Dev (219), Javagal Srinath (108), Zaheer Khan (104), and Ishant Sharma (104) to complete 100 wickets at home for India.

13 -Nathan Lyon dismissed Cheteshwar Pujara for the 13^th time in Tests equalling James Anderson’s tally.

Bowlers dismissing Indian batters the most times in Tests:

13 -James Anderson against Cheteshwar Pujara

13 -Nathan Lyon against Cheteshwar Pujara

10 -Nathan Lyon against Ajinkya Rahane

3 -Ravichandran Ashwin became the third Indian alongside Kapil Dev and Ravindra Jadeja to achieve the feat of 4000 international runs and 400 international wickets.

2 -Ravichandran Ashwin (132) became the second leading wicket-taker for India against Australia across formats surpassing Harbhajan Singh’s (129) tally. Anil Kumble tops the list with 142 wickets.

2 -This is the second time India have got bundled out under 200 twice in a Test since 1978.

39 -Virat Kohli has been out LBW for 39^th time in Tests.

Indian Batters Getting dismissed by LBW most times in Tests:

63 -Sachin Tendulkar

39 -Virat Kohli

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