Statistical Highlights – Australia v New Zealand 3rd Test, Adelaide

Statistical Highlights – Australia v New Zealand 3^rd Test, Adelaide: The first day-night Test and the first match to be played using the pink ball can be called a success as neither the ball deteriorated nor did the standard of cricket. Pink new ball moved horizontally, seamed off the wicket and eventually turned for the spinners as well. But in the end one can definitely say that by the surface that was there on offer ensured the bowlers finally had their say in the match for the first time in the series after we saw absolute belters in the first two Tests.

Australia held their nerves towards the end, batted better marginally than the Kiwis in the first innings and did well despite being one bowler short since Mitchell Starc couldn’t bowl after getting injured on the 1^st day, and deservingly won the match by 3 wickets. New Zealand have a lot of positives to take back from this series, despite being short of the target they would have liked to set for Australia, their pacers especially Trent Boult bowled with a lot of character and got the game into an interesting shape till the point the last runs weren’t scored.

Here are the Statistical Highlights of the 3rd Test:

2 – This is only the 2nd Test match in Adelaide Oval’s 74-match history that has ended in just 3 playing days. This is the first time it has happened in the last 64 years.

224 – Australia’s first innings total of 224 is their 2nd highest team total in Test cricket after losing first 8 wickets under 120. The highest that they have scored is 280 v England at Nottingham in July 2013.

1 – New Zealand opener Martin Guptill became the first victim of the pink-ball.

7 – The loss in the Trans-Tasman trophy is New Zealand’s first Test series loss from the last 7 they have played since June 2013. They have won 4 and drawn 3 series.

137 – The lowest target New Zealand has successfully defended in Tests is 137.

123,736 – The crowd in attendance over the course of the 3 days of the Test match. 123,736 will also stand as an all-time Adelaide Oval record for a non-Ashes Test

200 – Peter Siddle playing his 58th match reached 200th Test wicket in New Zealand’s first innings. He needed 2 wickets to get to the mark coming into the Test.

28 – This is 28th Test to be completed within 3 days out of the 246 Test matches that have been played since 2010.

1 – This is the first time that the Marsh brothers, Shaun, and Mitchell batted together in international cricket.

66 – The top score in this Test was just 66 which is the lowest ever in a Test in Adelaide. The previous lowest was 67, in an Australia v West Indies Test in 1951-52

1993 – It was back in the year 1993 that there was no hundred scored in an Adelaide Test. As many as 6 centuries were scored in the last years Test between Australia and India.

592 – David Warner’s series aggregate, it is the fourth-highest in a series of 3 of fewer Tests. Most runs by batsmen in a 3-Tests series – Graham Gooch: 752 runs, Brian Lara: 688 runs, Mohammad Yousuf: 665 runs, and David Warner: 592 runs.

1 – New Zealand has been able to win only a single Test by dismissing Australia in the fourth innings of a Test, it so happened at Hobart, in 2011.

21.13 – At the end of the third innings the average runs per wicket in this Test was 21.13. Only two Tests before this in Adelaide have had a lower average.

2 – This was the second occasion when Josh Hazlewood finished with five or more wickets in 6 Tests he has played at home. His best before today was 5 for 68.

6/70 – Hazlewood registered his best bowling figures in Test cricket after he got 6 wickets in the second innings against 70 runs.

1 – There was only one instance before this when 9th and 10th wicket batsmen have wiped out a bigger 1st innings deficit from a score of more than 150. It was by Australia at Trent Bridge, 2013.

6/40 – Australia lost 6 wickets for 40 runs in the Adelaide Test. The last time that they lost 6 wickets so cheaply at home was in 2010 on the 1st day of the Boxing Day Test.

1 – Australia has lost just one Test match against New Zealand since 1993.