Stats – Bumrah hits new high, Kohli suffers new low

Also, Rishabh Pant hits the second-fastest fifty for India in Test cricket (he also has the fastest)

Sampath Bandarupalli04-Jan-202510 – Single digit-scores for Virat Kohli in the 2024-25 season – the joint-most while batting in the top seven a Test season. Rohit Sharma also has ten single digit-scores in the 2024-25 season.23.75 – Kohli’s batting average in this series, the third-lowest for any batter in a Test series where they scored an unbeaten century (minimum of six innings). Aubrey Faulkner’s 19.40 in the 1912 Triangular-Series and Frank Woolley’s 23.25 in 1922 in South Africa were the only such instances of lower averages.29 – Balls needed for Rishabh Pant to complete his fifty, the second-fastest for India in Test cricket. The fastest is also by Pant, who had a fifty off 28 balls against Sri Lanka in 2022.BCCI60 – Runs scored by Pant off his first 30 balls – the second-most by a batter in a Test innings. Misbah-ul-Haq scored 65 runs off his first 30 balls against Australia in 2014 in Abu Dhabi.32 – Wickets by Jasprit Bumrah in this series, the most by an Indian in an away Test series. Bumrah went past Bishan Bedi’s 32 scalps during the five-match series in Australia in 1977-78.1980 – The previous instance of both teams getting bowled out under 200 in their first innings in a Test match in Sydney – Australia (123) and England (145). The ongoing Test is only the ninth instance of both teams getting bowled out under 200 in their first innings in a Test match in Sydney and only the second time in the last 70 years.2 – Pace bowlers to take four-plus wickets in both innings of a Test match in Sydney since 2001 – Pat Cummins against England in 2018 and Scott Boland against India this time.