AUS vs IND 2024-25, 4th Test, Day 2 Stats Review: Most centuries against India and other stats

Hosts Australia (AUS) continued to put India (IND) to work in the fourth Test of the ongoing Border-Gavaskar Trophy (BGT 2024-25). Resuming at 311/6, the home side rode on Steve Smith (140 off 197) and Pat Cummins (49 off 63) to march past the 400-run mark. Notably, the pair put up a 112-run stand for the seventh wicket.

In one final flourish, the tailenders pushed the score to 474. Among notable bowling performances for Team India, pacer Jasprit Bumrah claimed four wickets (4/99) while spinner Ravindra Jadeja (3/78) managed to keep the damage in control by having three victims under his name. In reply to Australia's huge total, the visitors were in trouble early on in their innings as skipper Rohit Sharma could not bring about a change in his fortunes as an opener after having batted at No. 6 in the previous two Tests. KL Rahul who shuffled down the order, looked good for a while but lost his stumps at the stroke of tea.

Yashasvi Jaiswal (82 off 118) and Virat Kohli put up a vital 102-run stand before the former's run out induced a collapse that saw India lose three wickets for just six runs in the space of 22 balls. One of those wickets was of the nightwatchman, Akash Deep. Consequently, at Stumps on Day 2, Team India were left reeling at 164/5 with Rishabh Pant and Ravindra Jadeja at the crease. Currently, the visitors trail Australia by 310 runs.

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Meanwhile, here are the stats highlights from Day 2 of AUS vs IND fourth Test:

1 - Steve Smith registered his eleventh Test century against India and became the player with the most Test centuries against India, breaking the tie he held with Joe Root at 10. 

1 - Smith made his tenth hundred in the Border-Gavaskar Trophy to become the player with the most centuries in the BGT breaking the tie he held with both Sachin Tendulkar and Virat Kohli with nine centuries, respectively. 

3 - Steve Smith became the third fastest batter to score 34 Test centuries by the number of innings taken to get to the mark. Smith got there in his 201st innings behind Sachin Tendulkar (192) and Ricky Ponting (193). 

3 - The former Australia Captain, Smith, now has the joint-third most Test hundreds at the MCG, having scored his fifth hundred today. Jack Hobbs also had five, while only Matthew Hayden (6) and Don Bradman (9) have more at the iconic venue. 

99 - The number of runs conceded by Jasprit Bumrah in Australia's first innings is the most that he has conceded in a single innings in his Test career. 

84 - Jasprit Bumrah has now bowled in 84 innings in his Test career without ever conceding more than 100 runs in an innings. Among pure bowlers, this is the most by a comfortable margin, while a host of part-time bowlers have bowled in more innings without going over the 100-run mark. 

1 - The premier India pacer, Bumrah, now has the most wickets by an Indian bowler in a single BGT series in Australia. Bumrah now has 25 wickets in the ongoing series going past Anil Kumble's 24 in 2003/04. 

1 - Jasprit Bumrah broke his record for the most wickets taken by an Indian pacer in a single BGT series. The fiery pacer had picked 21 wickets in the 2018/19 series. 

15 - Pat Cummins' dismissal of Rohit Sharma was the fifteenth time that Cummins as skipper had dismissed his opposite number in Test cricket. He is now joint-second on the list of bowler-skippers who have dismissed the opposing skipper most times in Tests with Imran Khan and Jason Holder. Richie Benaud leads the list with 18 such dismissals. 

1 - Yashasvi Jaiswal made his eleventh score of fifty or more in Tests this year. It is the joint-most alongside Joe Root for this year. Jaiswal has one more innings left this year and may overtake Root.