Statistical highlights of the first day's play in the fourth and final cricket Test between India [ Images ] and Australia [ Images ] in Adelaide on Monday.

# Michael Clarke [ Images ] (140 not out off 188 balls) has posted his fifth Test hundred against India -- his 19th in Tests.

# Clarke's aforesaid innings is his eleventh century in 41 Tests in Australia. He is averaging 58.46 in 63 innings in Australia, aggregating 3157 runs.

# In the course of his brilliant knock, Clarke has completed his 1,000 runs as an Australian skipper, aggregating 1105 at an average of 65.00 in 19 innings, including five hundreds and a fifty.

# Clarke, for the first time, has managed 500 runs in a Test series, aggregating 519 at an average of 173.00 in five innings, including a career-best, an unbeaten 329 at Sydney [ Images ] Cricket Ground.

# Clarke's previous best performance in a Test series was 448 (avg 64.00) runs in five Tests against England [ Images ] in 2009.

# Apart from the above two Test series, Clarke had made exactly 400 (avg 57.14) in four Tests against India in 2004-05, which was his debut series.

# Clarke is the fourth Australian to make 500 runs or more in a Test series as captain against India. He has joined Don Bradman - 715 (avg 178.75) in five Tests in 1947-48, Kim Hughes - 594 (avg 59.40) in six Tests in 1979-80 and Bobby Simpson - 539 (avg 53.90) in five Tests in 1977-78 in Australia).

# With his marvellous 41st Test hundred, Ponting has equalled Jacques Kallis' [ Images ] century tally. Only Sachin Tendulkar [ Images ] has recorded more centuries (51) than Kallis and Ponting.

# Ponting has outstripped West Indian, Clive Lloyd's [ Images ] tally of 2344 (ave 58.60) in 28 Tests against India. His present tally is 2411 runs at an average of 52.41 in 29 Tests -- the most by a batsman against India in Tests.

# Ponting has become the second batsman to make 400 runs or more in the present rubber, aggregating 400 at an average of 100.00, including two hundreds and two fifties.

# Ponting is the first batsman to manage 1500 runs at Adelaide Oval, taking his tally to 1579 at an average of 60.73 in 16 Tests.

# Ponting has posted two hundreds in a Test rubber against India for the third time.  He had first accomplished the feat in 1999-00 and then in the 2003-04 Test series.

# Since recording two hundreds in the 2006-07 series against England in Australia, Ponting has posted two hundreds for the first time in a Test series.

# Ponting's feat of 23 hundreds in 89 Tests on Australian soil is a record for most centuries at home, eclipsing the 22 each by Tendulkar and Kallis.

# Ponting (13056 runs at an average of 53.07) is the first Australian batsman and the third in Test Cricket to complete 13,000 runs, joining Sachin Tendulkar (15,432) and Rahul Dravid [ Images ] (13,262).

# Ponting has taken 162 matches for his 13,000 Test runs -- the second fastest, next only to Dravid (160). Tendulkar took 163 Tests to complete 13,000 runs.  He had taken 275 innings -- the second quickest in Tests, next only to Sachin Tendulkar's 266 innings.  Dravid had taken 277 innings to reach 13,000 runs.

# Ponting is the leading centurion at Adelaide (6), emulating his tally at SCG.

# Ponting has accomplished another feat -- a century each against India in all the four Tests at Adelaide Oval. His sequence of scores being 125 & 21 in 1999-00; 242 & 0 in 2003-04, 140 in 2007-08 and 137 not out in 2011-12.

# Garry Sobers, Vivian Richards [ Images ] and Ponting jointly share a record for most hundreds (8) against India.

# With their invaluable 251-run unbroken partnership, Ponting and Clarke have established an Australian record for the highest stand for any wicket against India at Adelaide, bettering the 239 between Ponting and Steve Waugh [ Images ] for the fifth wicket in 1999-2000.

# Clarke and Ponting have posted successive stands of 200-plus. The pair had shared a stand of 288 in the second Test at SCG.

# Australia, for the third time, have posted four stands of 200 or more in a series -- the first two occasions were against the West Indies [ Images ] -- in the 1954-55 series in the West Indies and the 1968-69 series in Australia

# Australia have posted four partnerships of 200 or more in a Test series against India for the first time -- two at SCG and one each at Perth and Adelaide.