Australia vs England, 3rd Ashes Test, Day 1 Stats Review: Joe Root's staggering year continues. Mitchell Starc's feat and other stats
Joe Root with 1680 runs became the captain with most runs in Tests in a calendar year.
England’s flop show with the bat in the series continued on Day 1 of the third Ashes Test at the MCG as they got bundled out for a paltry 185. Pat Cummins, who missed the second Test, returned to captaincy duties as he won the toss and opted to bowl first. Haseeb Hameed, who got a new partner in form of Zak Crawley, recorded his third duck in 2021 as skipper Cummins got his wicket.
It was the same old story for the British as captain Joe Root scored yet another fifty with no other batter even reaching the 40-run mark. Ben Stokes and Jonny Bairstow both got starts as they scored 25 and 35 respectively but couldn’t convert it into valuable scores. Jos Buttler, who played over 200 deliveries in the second innings of the last Test, survived just 11 this time as he got out for just three runs. Skipper Cummins and Nathan Lyon took three wickets each with debutant Scott Boland also opening his account with Mark Wood’s wicket.
The hosts, who ended the day on 61/1, would look to wipe off the deficit of 124 runs as quickly as possible on Day 2 and score big runs once again to put more misery on the visiting team who are having a disastrous tour til now. While Joe Root would hope for some magic from his bowlers against the in-form Australian side who are already looking to post big first-innings total once again in the series.
Meanwhile, here are the important stats and numbers from Australia vs England, 3rd Ashes Test Day 1:
1 – Joe Root with 1680 runs became the captain with most runs in Tests in a calendar year. He went past Graeme Smith’s tally of 1656 runs which were scored in the year 2008.
10 – Joe Root scored his tenth 50-plus score in Tests this year. Dimuth Karunaratne with seven such scores is second in the list.
172 – Mitchell Starc overtook Mitchell Johnson (171) and became the seventh highest wicket-taker for Australia in home Tests.
168 – James Anderson equaled Australia’s duo of Ricky Ponting and Steve Waugh and is now joint-second with them for most Tests played.
9503 – Joe Root completed 9500 runs in Tests.
9 – Mitchell Starc dismissed Jonny Bairstow for the ninth time in Tests which is the most he has dismissed any batter.
1019 – Joe Root completed 1019 runs as captain in away Tests this year. Only Graeme Smith and Virat Kohli are ahead of him for scoring 1212 and 1138 runs in 2008 and 2018 respectively.
50 – England team recorded their 50th duck in Tests this year.
12 – England skipper Joe Root smashed 12th 50-plus score in international cricket this year. Pakistan’s pair of Babar Azam and Mohammad Rizwan have 17 such scores each.
3 – England opener Haseeb Hameed recorded his third Test duck this year. His teammates Dom Sibley and Rory Burns have four and six ducks respectively.
10 – Tenth time David Warner got dismissed by James Anderson in Tests. R Ashwin has also got Warner out ten times with Stuart Broad dismissing him most times (12).
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