AUS vs IND 2024-25, 4th Test, Day 5 Stats Review: Rohit's lows, Cummins' highs and other stats

Australia took an unassailable 2-1 lead by winning the Boxing Day Test against India at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in the Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2024-25. India's chances of qualification for the WTC Final now hang by a thread. 

Early in the morning, Jasprit Bumrah (5 for 57) completed his fifer as Australia set India a target of 340. India started their innings cautiously without losing any wickets in the first hour of the chase but Pat Cummins removed both Rohit Sharma and KL Rahul in the same over to dent India. Virat Kohli then lost his wicket chasing a delivery outside off stump at the stroke of lunch and India's hopes looked bleak. 

Yashasvi Jaiswal (84 off 208) and Rishabh Pant (30 off 104) exercised great control and went through the second session without losing their wickets. But Pant fell slogging to Travis Head in the third session and that induced a collapse where India lost their last seven wickets for just 34 runs. 

Australia have now bolstered their chances of wrestling the BGT back from India after a 10-year gap and are just one win away from making the WTC Final. 

Also Read: WTC 2023-25: India’s qualification chances for WTC final after defeat to Australia in 4th Test in Melbourne

Here are the stats highlights from the day: 

9 - Jasprit Bumrah registered his ninth five-wicket haul in Tests in SENA (South Africa, England, New Zealand, Australia) countries which is the third most by an Asian bowler in these countries. Only Wasim Akram (11) and Muttiah Muralitharan (10) have more. 

13 - Jasprit Bumrah registered his thirteenth five-wicket haul in Test cricket. Since his debut, no bowler has more five-wicket hauls in the longest format. 

1 - Jasprit Bumrah finished 2024 with 71 Test wickets at an average of 14.92. That average is the best for any bowler with a minimum of 70 wickets in a calendar year in Tests. 

2 - Rohit Sharma became only the second captain to get out in the single figures in both innings of a Test four times in a single calendar year. The first was Anil Kumble in 2008. 

16 - Pat Cummins' dismissal of Rohit Sharma in India's second innings was the sixteenth time that Cummins had dismissed the opposition skipper while playing as skipper himself in Tests. Only Richie Benaud (18) has taken more such wickets. 

2 - Yashasvi Jaiswal finished the calendar year 2024 with 1478 Test runs at an average of 54.74. Jaiswal now has the second most runs by an Indian batter in a single calendar year in Tests, behind Sachin Tendulkar's 1562 in 2010. 

12 - Yashasvi Jaiswal's 12 fifty-plus scores in Tests in 2024 are the joint second-most for India in a calendar year in Tests. Sachin Tendulkar (in 2010) and Sunil Gavaskar (in 1979) also had the same. Virender Sehwag in 2010 passed fifty on thirteen ocassions. 

2014 - The last time Australia won two matches in a single Test series against India. In fact, it was on December 30 that year that Australia confirmed a series winm after having won the first two and drawn the third Test of the series with one more to play. 

2011 - The last time India lost a Test at the MCG. India won two and drew one Test in the interim. 

2016 - The last time India lost an international match at the MCG. Of their seven matches in between, India won six while one was a no result. 

6 - Rohit Sharma has now lost six Tests as captain in 2024, which is the second most for an Indian captain in a single year. Virat Kohli with seven in 2018 has the most. 

1 - Pat Cummins has become the first captain to win multiple Player of the Match Awards in the Boxing Day Tests at the MCG. Cummins also won Player of the Match in the Boxing Day Test against Pakistan in 2023. 

1 - Pat Cummins has now won three Player of the Match Awards as captain since he assumed full-time captaincy of the Australian Test side in November 2021. No other captain has even two in the same time frame. 

6 - Rohit Sharma's winless streak as captain in Tests has now extended to six. The last Indian captain to have a winless Test streak as long was MS Dhoni in 2011. 

7 - Nathan Lyon overtook Ravichandran Ashwin's career tally of 537 wickets to become the seventh highest wicket-taker of all time in Test cricket with 538.