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Statistical highlights: India vs Australia, 2nd Test, Day 5
January 06, 2008

Statistical highlights after the end of the second Test match between India and Australia at the SCG in Sydney on Sunday.

# Australia, with their 2-0 lead over India, have retained the Border-Gavaskar Trophy.

# Australia, with their 122-run win, have equalled the world record of 16 victories in succession (between December 26, 2005 and January 6, 2008), established under the captain-ship of Steve Waugh between October 14, 1999 and March 1, 2001.

# Ponting became the first Australian captain to have won five Tests at SCG.

# Australia have won 4, lost 1 and drawn 4 out of 9 played against India at the SCG with win percentage of 44.44.

# Michael Hussey's unbeaten 145 (his first century against India) is his highest score in Australia, bettering his 137 against West Indies [Images] at Hobart in November 2005. 

# Hussey has now recorded eight centuries - two each against West Indies and Sri Lanka [Images] and one each against England [Images], India, South Africa and Bangladesh. 

# Thanks to his unbeaten century knock, Hussey's average is now 84.80 after 20 Tests.

# Andrew Symonds [Images] (302 at an average of 100.66) became the second batsman to amass 300 runs in the series.  Matthew Hayden [Images], with 307 runs at an average of 76.75 is the leading run-getter in the series.

# Anil Kumble [Images], with 15 wickets at 29.33 runs apiece, is the leading wicket-taker in the series so far.

# Kumble became the first Indian bowler to have claimed 20 wickets (ave.32.95) in 3 Tests at SCG.

# Kumble (599 wickets at 28.67 runs apiece) needs one wicket to join the two bowlers with 600-plus wickets in Test Cricket - Muttiah Muralitharan (723) and Shane Warne [Images] (708).

# Adam Gilchrist [Images] (7 and 1) is without a fifty in his last eleven innings against India. He has recorded 14 single-digit scores out of 28 innings against India. His aggregate is 725 in 16 Tests at an average of 27.88. Against all other opponents, he has averaged 40-plus.

# Sourav Ganguly [Images], during the course of his innings of 51 completed his 1000 runs against Australia - 1045 runs at an average of 34.83 in 18 Tests. He is the seventh Indian to complete 1000 runs against Australia.

# Ganguly, for the first time in a Test match against Australia, has recorded two fifties - 67 & 51.

# Ganguly, with his 32nd Test fifty, has aggregated 200-plus in the first two Tests of the series - 201 at an average of 50.25 and became the second Indian batsman after Sachin Tendulkar [Images] (243 at an average of 81.00) to register 200 plus in the series so far.

# Wasim Jaffer's [Images] sixth duck in 51 innings is his first against Australia in four innings.

# Jaffer has recorded all his six ducks away from home - two at Chittagong (pair of spectacles) and one each at Sydney, Kingston [Images], Nottingham and The Oval.

# After recording a double century and a fifty - 202 & 56 against Pakistan in the Kolkata Test, Jaffer has not even touched a score of "twenty" in his last six innings - 17 & 18 against Pakistan at Bangalore; 4 & 15 at MCG and 3 & 0 at SCG.

# Mahendra Singh Dhoni [Images] (35) registered his highest score against Australia, eclipsing his 11 in the second innings of the Melbourne Test.

# Anil Kumble (45 not out) registered his highest Test score against Australia, eclipsing his 39 at Bangalore in March 1998. 

# The match aggregate of 1606 for the loss of 37 wickets is the second best in India-Australia Tests - the highest ever between the two countries is 1747 for 25 wickets in the 2003-04 Sydney Test.

# Symonds got his first Man of the Match award in a Test.

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