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Statistical Highlights 1st Test: Australia v India at Adelaide, 10-14 December, 1999

• This match was the 1476th in Test history.

• This match was Australia's 601st and India's 329th in Tests.

• This match was the 55th meeting between the two sides.

• This match was the 58th to be played at this venue. India was playing its 7th match at this venue.

• Ajit Agarkar was appearing in his only 2nd Test match. He made his Test debut 14 months ago in October last year against Zimbabwe at Harare. Interestingly between these two Test matches he has appeared in only a single first-class match - against New South Wales at Sydney just a week ago.

• This was the only third Indian team in 67 years and 329 matches to have all its players from the same community (Hindus). The first occasion was against England at Birmingham in 1979 and then recently it occurred against New Zealand at Mohali in October this year.

• This was the second occasion this year when India went into a Test match with just one spinner. In the final Test at the start of the year against New Zealand at Hamilton, Kumble was the only Indian spinner in the side.

• Australia who at one stage in the morning were 4 for 52, recorded its third worst start against India in the first innings of a Test. The previous two worst starts being: 4 for 29 at Calcutta 1997-98 and 4 for 43 at Brisbane 1977-78 (in this Test Australia were 5-49 at one stage)

• Ponting became the first batsman in Test history to score back to back hundreds after bagging a pair. Ponting bagged a pair at Hobart against Pakistan and in the next match scored 197 against the same opponents.

• S Waugh has now scored a hundred against all the eight Test opponents. He becomes the first batsman in Test history to do so. New Zealander Martin Crowe (except against South Africa), fellow Australian Mark Taylor (has not played against Zimbabwe), Englishman Alec Stewart (except against India), Indian Sachin Tendulkar (except against Zimbabwe) and twin brother Mark Waugh (except against Zimbabwe) are the only batsmen to have scored a hundred against seven different Test opponents.

• The hundred was S Waugh's 21st of his career, which equals the tally of India's Sachin Tendulkar for the maximum Test hundreds by a contemporary batsman.

• The fifth wicket partnership of 239 runs between S Waugh and Ricky Ponting surpassed the following records....

• on 78, the pair bettered Australia's highest for the 5th wicket against India at this venue. The previous best was the 77 runs between Greg Richie and David Hookes in 1985-86
• on 209, the pair bettered Australia's highest for the 5th wicket at this venue. The previous best was the 208 between Australians Allan Border and Steve Waugh against South Africa in 1993-94.
• on 224, the pair bettered Australia's highest for the 5th wicket against India. The previous best was the 223 (unbeaten) between Arthur Morris and Don Bradman at Melbourne in 1947-48.
• on 237, the pair bettered Australia's highest for any wicket against India. The previous best was the 236 between Syd Barnes and Don Bradman for the 2nd wicket in 1947-48 - also at this venue.

• The Waugh-Ponting partnership was the second highest by any pair for the fifth wicket against India. The best still remains as the 254 by Englishmen Keith Fletcher and Tony Greig at Bombay in 1972-73.

• The run-out of Ponting was the 18th occasion in Steve Waugh's career where his partner was run-out while Waugh was at the crease. This is now a new Test record. Waugh went past the previous record of Australian Allan Border who was at the crease when 17 of his partners were run-out. Just for the record, Englishman Geoff Boycott follows them with 13 partner run-outs, while West Indian Viv Richards was involved in 12 such run-outs.

• When on 117* S Waugh reached his 8000th run. He becomes the second Australian after Border (11174 in 156 matches) and 9th batsman in Test history. And by doing so in his 123rd match he took the longest time in terms of matches (West Indian Viv Richards and Englishman David Gower achieved their landmark in 112 matches). However, Waugh needed 194 innings to reach this landmark, which was one inning less than what Gower (195) needed to reach his target.

• Steve Waugh (150) recorded his 11th score of 150-plus of his career. Now only fellow Australian Don Bradman (18) and India's Sunil Gavaskar (12) have more scores of 150-plus in Tests. Waugh equals West Indian Gary Sobers to go ahead of Englishmen Walter Hammond (10) & Len Hutton (10) and Pakistani Javed Miandad (10).

• The partnership of 108 runs between S Waugh and Shane Warne was Australia's best for the seventh wicket against India. The previous best was the 66 run partnership between Greg Matthews and Ray Bright at Melbourne in 1985-86.

• Shane Warne (86) equalled his highest Test and first-class score of his career. Warne had made a similar score against Pakistan at Brisbane just a month ago.

• It was the third highest score made by an Australian batting at number eight at this venue. The highest still remains as the 116 by Roger Hartigan against England in 1907-08 and the 95 by Gary Gilmour against West Indies in 1975-76.

• Incidentally it was also the highest score made by an Australian batting at this position against India. The previous highest was the 59 by Rick Darling at Kanpur in 1979-80.

• The wicket of Kasprowicz was Kumble's 50th wicket for this calendar year in 9 matches. He joins Australian Glenn McGrath to become the second bowler to do so in 1999. At the end of the match McGrath has 64 wickets in 13 matches, while Kumble has 52 wickets.

• The four dismissals by MSK Prasad in the first innings equals India's best by a keeper against Australia. Probir Sen (at Melbourne, 1947-48), Naren Tamhane (at Madras, 1956-57), Syed Kirmani (at Delhi, 1979-80) and Chandrakant Pandit (Sydney, 1991-92) were the others to do so.

• Ricky Ponting (21) when on 17, reached his 2000th run of his career in his 32 Tests and 50th innings. He now becomes the 41st Australian and the 196th batsmen in Test history to do so.

• The wicket of Blewett in the second innings was Agarkar's 50th first-class wicket in his 16th match.

• Shane Warne who in the first innings equalled his Test score recorded his 20th duck of his career. Now only Glenn McGrath (21) has more ducks among Australians.

• The six dismissals by MSK Prasad in the match equals India's best by a keeper against Australia. Syed Kirmani (at Delhi, 1979-80) and Chandrakant Pandit (Sydney, 1991-92) were the others to do so.

• Damien Fleming (5-30) recorded his career best bowling figures in his 17th Test match. His previous best was the 5-46 against England at Perth in 1998-99.

• India's total of 110 was the fourth lowest total at this venue. It was the lowest since 1951-52.

• Australia's win by 285 runs was the fourth largest at this venue. It was Australia's second largest victory at Adelaide after its 382 run win against England 105 years ago - in 1894-95.

• It was India's fifth largest defeat in Tests and its second largest against Australia. It had lost at Perth in 1991-92 by 300 runs.

• The victory was Australia's fifth in a row (including its win against Zimbabwe at Harare). This was its best sequence since its four consecutive victories against the West Indies during the 1975-76 season. Now only the record eight in a row wins from 1920-21 to 1921 by Warwick Armstrong's Australians exceeds the present Australian team's performance.