Statistical highlights from Day 3 at Pallekele
Third day's play between Sri Lanka and Australia threw up numbers, statistics and figures to highlight the proceedings. A look.
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- Updated: September 10, 2011 05:15 PM IST
Third day's play between Sri Lanka and Australia threw up numbers, statistics and figures to highlight the proceedings. A look.
# Michael Hussey (142) has recorded his highest innings against Sri Lanka, bettering the 133 at Brisbane in November 2007.
# Hussey has played four Tests against Sri Lanka, aggregating 551 in six innings at an average of 110.20, including three centuries. Only once in a Test match against Sri Lanka, he has missed a hundred and that too by just 5 runs at Galle - 95 in the first Test of the present series.
# Hussey has recorded 14 centuries in Tests - ten in Australia and four away from home.
# Hussey's four overseas hundreds include one each against England, India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh.
# Hussey has completed his 21,000 runs in first-class cricket - 21006 at an average of 52.64 in 248 matches, including 56 hundreds and 96 fifties.
# Shaun Marsh (141) has become the 19th Australian player to post a hundred on Test debut - the first Australian to do so against Sri Lanka.
# Marsh's innings is the seventh highest by an Australian debutant in Tests. Charles Bannerman holds a record for the highest individual innings on debut for Australia - 165 retired hurt against England at Melbourne in March 1877 - the first Test in the history.
# Hussey and Marsh, with their 258-run stand, have established a fourth-wicket partnership record against Sri Lanka, obliterating the
245 between Michael Clarke and Michael Hussey at Brisbane in November 2007.
# Mitchell Johnson has recorded his 14th duck in Tests - his first against Sri Lanka.
# Suraj Randiv has produced his best bowling figures against Australia, obliterating the 2 for 76 at Galle in the first Test of the present series.