5 Notable Statistics From The First Two Tests

#5 Australia's tail has contributed over four times as much as India's

India's tail has offered little resistance

While it is perhaps harsh to criticize a teams tail while their top seven has been imperfect, India's tail has been very poor.

So far this series, India's bottom four have made 51 runs in comparison to the 227 runs scored by Australia's bottom four.

What makes this especially alarming, is that 30 of those runs came from Ashwin in Adelaide. Their pace-bowlers currently average 2.10 with the bat in the series, with the highest score from them being Mohammed Shami's six in Adelaide, which he has since followed with three ducks.

Comparatively, all Australia's tail has contributed. Nathan Lyon leads the way, with his series of cameos with the batting seeing him with 76 runs in the series, having only been dismissed once. But Mitchell Starc, Pat Cummins, and even Josh Hazlewood, have all contributed.

This has been vital for Australia, as their top seven is fragile at best, and therefore needs all the depth its tail can offer. But it additionally also empowers their top seven when they find themselves batting with the tail.

The inverse of this was shown in India's second innings in Perth, where Pant refused to take singles when playing shot to fielders on the boundary, despite his side only being six wickets down.

India's tail will be improved massively by the return of Ashwin, but it is also important that their pace-bowlers step up, particularly as India have been so reliant on their top order.