Ashes 2017-18: 2nd Test, Day 4 – Statistical Highlights

The 2nd Ashes Test match is well set for an exciting finish at the Adelaide Oval with England needing 178 more runs with six wickets in hand. After conceding a 215-run first innings lead, England bowlers struck back by wrapping up the home side’s 2nd innings to just 138 runs. Joe Root and Dawid Malan look set to put England on the top with a 78-run stand for the 4th wicket before Pat Cummins dismissed Malan in the final moments of the day’s play.

Here we look at all the stats and numbers created during the Adelaide Test so far:

1 – Shaun Marsh and Geoff Marsh became the first father-son duo with centuries in the Ashes. Geoff scored 110 in 1986, Brisbane and 138 in 1989, Nottingham while Shaun scored 126* in the first innings of the game.

1 – James Anderson’s five-wicket haul in the 2nd innings was his first in Test cricket on Australian soil. Prior to this five-fer, Anderson had the 2nd most number of Test wickets on Australian soil without a 5-fer. Anderson now has 51 Test wickets in Australia in the 15 matches.

2 – Moeen Ali, Jonny Bairstow and Chris Woakes getting out caught and bowled in England’s first innings is only the 2nd instance in Test cricket where three consecutive wickets in an innings were caught and bowled. England lost three straight wickets via caught and bowled against Pakistan in Leeds in 1962.

6 – Steven Smith’s six runs in the 2nd innings of this Test is his lowest score in the last 25 Test innings. Since his duck in Perth Test last year, Smith had only three single-digit scores in these 25 innings. He got out on eight runs in an innings twice this year.

7 – Number of times Nathan Lyon has dismissed Alastair Cook in Test cricket. These are the joint most times Lyon has dismissed any player in this format. He got Cheteshwar Pujara’s wicket as well on seven occasions.

20 – Mitchell Starc and Usman Khawaja’s 20 is the highest score in Australia’s 2nd innings. This is the joint 2nd highest “lowest individual score” in a Test innings at home for Australia in the last 120 years. They had a highest of 18* against India in 1981, a highest of 20 against Windies and England in 1988 and 2010 respectively. All the previous instances came in Melbourne and Australia losing in all the three of those matches.

25 – Anderson’s 5-wicket haul was his 25th in Test cricket. He now has the 2nd most number of 5-fers among England players by surpassing Sydney Barnes’ 24 five-fers. Ian Botham holds the England record with 27 five-wicket hauls in this format.

138 – Australia’s total of 138 is the highest team total in Test cricket for any side with a highest individual score of 20 and lower. Bangladesh scored 134 against Pakistan in 2001 in Multan with a highest individual score of 19 runs.