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Statistical highlights after the end of day one in the third Test between India and Australia at WACA, Perth, on Wednesday.
# Rahul Dravid's 93 is his third score in the 90s against Australia; his previous two innings were 92 at Melbourne and an unbeaten 91 at Sydney during the 2003-04 series.
# Dravid has now registered ten scores in the 90s (3 against Australia, 2 each against the West Indies, Sri Lanka and England and one against Zimbabwe), emulating Australia's Steve Waugh's dubious distinction.
# Dravid became the second Indian batsman after Mohinder Amarnath (90 in Dec 1977) to be dismissed in the 90s at Perth.
# Virender Sehwag has not scored a half-century in his last nine innings. He last posted a fifty against the West Indies (65) at Basseterre in June 2006.
# Sachin Tendulkar posted his second fifty-plus score at WACA - his highest at this venue is 114 off 161 balls in February 1992.
# Sachin, with his knock of 71, became the first ever batsman to record 50 fifty-plus innings on foreign soil - 22 hundreds and 28 fifties in 132 innings.
# Sachin's 49th half-century is his ninth against Australia. He became the first Indian to register 10 fifty-plus innings in Australia - 5 hundreds and five fifties.
# Sachin, with 314 runs (ave.78.50) in five innings is now the leading run-getter in the series. Matthew Hayden (307) and Andrew Symonds (302) have recorded 300-plus in this series for Australia.
# Rahul Dravid has extended his world record for being involved in 71 century partnerships.
# Dravid's 10th fifty against Australia is his 51st in Tests. He has now posted 75 fifty-plus innings - 24 centuries and 51 fifties.