A look at the milestones that can be achieved during the next two Test matches betwen India and Australia.

Batting :

• Sachin Tendulkar needs 80 runs to complete his 9,000 Test runs.

• Tendulkar needs 107 runs to become the leading run scorer for India against Australia in Tests

• Tendulkar needs 345 runs to aggregate 5000 runs in 'away' Tests.

• Tendulkar needs two hundreds to equal Sunil Gavaskar's record tally of 18 hundreds in away Tests

• Tendulkar needs three hundreds to equal Sunil Gavaskar's world record tally of 34 hundreds

• Rahul Dravid needs 386 runs to aggregate 4000 runs in 'away' Tests.

• Dravid needs 286 runs to complete his 15,000 runs in first class cricket

• Sourav Ganguly needs 122 runs to complete his 2000 Test runs as India's captain

• Steve Waugh needs 49 runs to complete his 1,000 runs in Test matches against India

• Waugh needs one fifty to complete his fifty of fifties (excluding centuries)

• Waugh needs 143 runs to complete his 1,000 runs in this calendar year

• Waugh needs 173 runs to become the leading run-scorer on Australian soil.

• Waugh needs 212 runs to complete his 11,000 Test runs

• Waugh needs 342 runs to complete his 24,000 runs in first class cricket

• Waugh needs 387 runs to become the highest run scorer in Test cricket

• Waugh needs two hundreds to equal Sunil Gavaskar's world record tally of 34 Test hundreds

• Justin Langer needs 143 runs to complete his 5,000 Test runs

• Langer needs 192 runs to complete his 1,000 runs in Test matches this calendar year

• Ricky Ponting needs 47 runs to become leading run-scorer in Test matches in this calendar year

• Ponting needs 130 runs to complete his 1,000 runs in matches against India

Bowling :

• By dismissing one batsman on naught , Glenn McGrath will become the bowler to inflict most duck-dismissals in Test cricket

• One 'caught & bowled' dismissal for Anil Kumble will make him the bowler with most such dismissals in Test cricket

• Stuart MacGill needs one wicket to complete his 500 wickets in first class cricket.

• MacGill needs 9 wickets to complete his 150 wickets

• Brett Lee needs 19 wickets to complete his 150 wickets

• Steve Waugh needs 9 wickets to complete his 100 wickets

• Zaheer Khan needs 18 wickets to complete his 100 wickets

• Ajit Agarkar needs 3 wickets to complete his 50 wickets

• Ashish Nehra needs 9 wickets to complete his 50 wickets

• Anil Kumble needs one wicket to become leading Indian spinner in 'away' Tests beating Bishan Singh Bedi's tally of 128 wickets.

Fielding & Wicketkeeping :

• Adam Gilchrist needs 13 dismissals to complete his 600 dismissals in first class cricket

• Gilchrist needs six dismissals to complete 50 dismissals in Test matches in this calendar year

• Rahul Dravid needs 7 catches to complete his 100 catches in Test cricket

• Ricky Ponting needs 12 catches to complete his 100 catches in Test cricket

• Justin Langer needs 6  catches to complete his 50 catches in Test cricket

General :

• Adam Gilchrist's 50 Tests (He has played in 49 Tests so far)

• Matthew Hayden's 50 Tests (He has played in 48 Tests so far)

• VVS Laxman's 50 Tests (He has played in 48 Test so far)

• Dravid will extend his record of not recording a duck in last 66 innings (and 38 Tests)

• A Test win for Ganguly will make him the most successful Indian captain taking him ahead of Mohammad Azharuddin's tally of 14 Test wins

• A Man-of-the-Match award will be tenth for Tendulkar. He will become first Indian to do so