Stats: Australia vs West Indies 1st Test - 87th Innings Victory for Australia takes Windies cricket to new low

Australia and West Indies players shake hands after the match

5- West Indies have suffered a defeat of innings and 200 plus runs for the 5th time in a test match.

9- It was the 9th Instance for Australia when they have defeated any team by a margin of an innings and 200 plus runs in a test match- only England, with 15 such instances, is above Australia.

1993- The last and only time a Team lost a test by an innings and 200 plus runs at Hobart- at that time, it was New Zealand which suffered this humiliation at the hands of Australia.

5- Wickets taken by James Pattinson in 3rd innings of the match in his 8 overs for 27 runs- In the 1st innings, he went wicketless for his 15 overs and 68 runs.

2- Number of Five-fors for James Pattinson at Hobart- most for any pace bowler. James Pattinson has taken 4 five-wicket hauls in his career, three of which have come during the month of December. Today’s 5-27 is also his joint personal best.

94- Runs made by Kragg Brathwaite in 2nd innings of West Indies- it is the highest individual score for a batsman in a completed test innings of 150 or less runs. The previous best had been 82 by MS Dhoni against England at Oval in August 2014.

1951- The last and only 2nd time before Bravo that a West Indian No. 3 made a century playing in Australia in a lost cause- it was Sir Frank Worrell who made 108 runs at Melbourne on 31 Dec 1951.

1993- The last time when a number 3 for West Indies scored a century in Australia irrespective of result- it was Richie Richardson who struck 109 runs at SCG in Jan 1993.

261- Runs scored by first wickets stands of West Indies in current year- 8 fewer than what Adam Voges scored in the first innings of this test match- and he was unbeaten as well. West Indies’ 261 runs for first wicket are the least any team had made this year. Their opening stand’s average (14.50) is also the least for any team.

0- Number of 50 plus opening stands between West Indian openers this year- making them the only team in this year to do so. In fact, it has happened in 5 Calendar years in 72 years of their Test cricket where West Indies have not made a single fifty plus score for the first wicket. Besides 2015, they achieved this feat in 1935, 1939, 1966 and 1982.

1935 – The last and only time when West Indies had a lower 1st wicket average in a single calendar year than 14.50 in 2015 was in 1935, when the West Indian openers made 83 runs for 1st wicket with a highest of 32, averaging roughly 10.

87- Test victories for Australia by a margin of an innings in Test History, after they defeated West Indies by an innings and 212 runs. England with 100 is first on the list, while no other country has managed even half-century of such wins with South Africa (42), West Indies (40), India (34), Pakistan (29), New Zealand (21) and Sri Lanka (20) following them remotely.

38- Test Losses West Indies have incurred by a margin of an innings in Test History including today’s. England, with 55 such losses, is on the top, followed by New Zealand (47), India (43), Australia (42) and then West Indies.