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Stats Analysis

Kohli surpasses Dravid

Stats highlights from the third day of the fourth Test between India and Australia in Sydney

Bishen Jeswant
Bishen Jeswant
08-Jan-2015

Highest Indian run-getters in a series against Australia

639 Runs scored by Virat Kohli in this series, the most by an Indian against Australia, at home or away. He went past Rahul Dravid, who had scored 619 runs during the 2003-04 Border-Gavaskar Trophy.
4 Hundreds scored by Kohli during this series, making him only the second Indian to score as many in a Test series. Sunil Gavaskar had achieved this feat on two occasions against West Indies in 1971 and 1978-79.
7 Centuries scored by captains across the four Tests, the most ever in a single Test series. Michael Clarke had one, Kohli and Steven Smith have three each.
1 Time that two batsmen - Kohli and Smith - have made four or more hundreds each in the same Test series. Individually, they are the 19th and 20th batsmen to make four hundreds in a Test series.
23 Years since an Indian opener played 250 or more balls in an innings in Australia. KL Rahul, with 262 balls for his 110 in Sydney, emulated Ravi Shastri, who had faced 477 balls for his 206 in Sydney in 1992.
3 Hundreds for Kohli in his first three innings as captain, the only player to do so. His counterpart Smith has scored at least one hundred in each of his first three Tests as captain.
2.97 India's run rate during their first innings, the second-slowest of this series by either team. India have scored 342 runs so far from 115 overs. Teams have scored at a run rate in excess of three in 12 of the 13 other innings this series.
5 Test hundreds for Kohli in Australia, only Sachin Tendulkar (6) has more. Gavaskar has scored five hundreds as well. Kohli is fifth on the list of overseas batsmen to score the most hundreds in Australia.
39 Number of innings since Shane Watson has taken more than one wicket in an innings. He has figures of 2 for 42 in the first innings. The last time he took more than one wicket was in November 2011, when he returned figures of 5 for 17 against South Africa in Cape Town.

Bishen Jeswant is a stats sub editor at ESPNCricinfo. @bishen_jeswant