India Vs Australia 3rd Tests Stats Preview: Players records and approaching milestones

Dominant India, after retaining the Border-Gavaskar Trophy, would look to continue the home-run against the depleted Australia. The action now moves to Holkar Cricket Stadium, Indore where both the team lock horns for the third time in four-match Test series.

Speaking about the second Test, Australia won the crucial toss and opted to bat for the second time in the series. The openers took them to a decent start as they put together 50 partnership. However, Mohammed Shami did the damage by setting up David Warner to break the good going partnership. 

Soon after, Ravichandran Ashwin joined hands along with Shami to send the top order back to hut at 108/4. Gritty fifties from Usman Khawaja and Peter Handscomb along with handy contribution down the order from Pat Cummins helped the visitors with the fighting total of 263.

In response, Indian top order did not live up the expectations as they succumbed Lyon’s spin dominance and India were left reeling at 66/4 at once. The duo of Virat Kohli and Ravindra Jadeja rescued India with 50 run partnership, but Todd Murphy broke the good going partnership by trapping Jadeja in front. Soon After Matthew Kuhnermann joined the party by removing Virat Kohli on his debut and India again looked in trouble at 139/7.

Then came the duo in Axar Patel and Ravichandran Ashwin, who together put a record 114 partnership for 9^th wicket reducing the deficit to one run as India were bowled out for 262. In the second Innings, the duo of Ravindra Jadeja and Ravichandran Ashwin helped India bundle out Australia cheaply for 113.

Meanwhile, Ravindra Jadeja registered his best figures of 7/42 in a Test innings. In response, Cheteshwar Pujara remained unbeaten for 31 on his 100^th Test to help India ease the chase by margin of six wickets to retain the Border-Gavaskar Trophy.

Meanwhile let us look at the stats and number ahead of 3^rd Test between India and Australia.

India vs Australia Head-to-Head: Both India and Australia have met on 104 occasions in which Australia have been on the winning side for 43 occasions and India Winning on 32 occasions, one match ended in Tie and 28 matches ended in draw. In India, both have played 52 games and India being victorious in 23 games and Australia have won 13 games. One game ended in Tie and 15 games ending in draw.

45 – Rohit Sharma (16955) needs 45 runs to complete the landmark of 17000 runs in international cricket.

1 – Ravindra Jadeja (499) is one scalp away from reaching the milestone of 500 wickets in international matches.

5 – Rohit Sharma (195) needs five catches to grab 200 catches in international cricket.

9 – R Ashwin (103) is nine wickets away from surpassing Anil Kumble (111) and becoming the leading wicket-taker for India against Australia in Tests.

3 – Mohammed Siraj (47) needs three scalps to get to 50 wickets in Tests.

6 – R Ashwin (3994) needs six runs to complete 4000 runs across formats.

1 – Shreyas Iyer (99) is one game away from appearing in 100 matches in international cricket.

2 – Axar Patel (48) is two wickets away to get to 50 Test wickets.

4 – Mohammed Siraj (96) requires four scalps to get to 100 wickets across formats.

57 – Rohit Sharma (1943) is 57 runs away from completing 2000 runs in Tests at home.

69 – Cheteshwar Pujara (1931) needs 69 runs to reach 2000 runs against Australia in Tests.

1 – Axar Patel (99) is one game away from featuring in 100 international games.

1 – Virat Kohli (299) is one grab away from completing 300 catches across formats.

2 – Nathan Lyon (498) needs two scalps to get to 500 wickets in international cricket.

1 – Alex Carey (149) is one grab away from taking 150 catches across formats.

6 – Nathan Lyon (106) needs six wickets to surpass Brett Lee (111) and become the leading wicket-taker for Australia against India across formats.

8 - Mitchell Starc (42) needs eight wickets to complete 50 Test wickets against India.

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