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Stats - WI's first Test win in Australia since 1997

The key stats from West Indies' eight-run win over Australia at the Gabba

Shamar Joseph led the celebrations for West Indies  •  Getty Images

Shamar Joseph led the celebrations for West Indies  •  Getty Images

1 Australia's eight-run defeat against West Indies was their first in a day-night Test match. Australia won each of their previous 11 day-night Test matches. In contrast, this was West Indies' first-ever win in a day-night Test match, having lost all their previous four games.
2003 West Indies' last win against Australia in Test cricket - by three wickets at St John's. West Indies played 20 Tests against Australia in the previous 20 years, losing in 16 while another four ended in a draw.
It is also the first win for West Indies in Australia since the ten-wicket win in Perth in February 1997. West Indies lost 15 of the 17 Tests they played in Australia between the two wins.
8 West Indies' win margin in Brisbane is their second narrowest by runs in men's Tests. They defeated Australia by one run in 1993 at the Adelaide Oval while defending a target of 186. Six of the twelve men's Tests to be decided by less than ten runs have come against Australia.
10 Test defeats for Australia at the Gabba out of the 66 they played. Sunday's defeat was their second in four matches at the venue since 2021, where they did not lose one in the 31 played between 1989 and 2020.
1 Previous instance of Australia losing a Test match after declaring in an innings at home. Australia declared their first innings on 395 for 8 despite being 54 behind West Indies in the 1988 Perth Test but lost by 169. Overall, this was only the fifth instance of Australia losing a Test match where they declared in one of their innings.
5 Players, including Shamar Joseph, with a seven-wicket haul for West Indies against Australia in Test cricket. Three of the previous seven-fors by the West Indies bowlers came in Australia only.
Joseph is also the first visiting bowler with a seven-plus wicket haul in Australia since Matthew Hoggard's 7 for 109 in 2006 at the Adelaide Oval.
2 Players with five-wicket hauls in their first two Test matches for West Indies. Before Joseph, only Fidel Edwards accomplished this feat, with five-fors against Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe in 2003.
2 Bowlers with better figures for West Indies in the fourth innings than Joseph's 7 for 68 in Brisbane. Curtley Ambrose in 1990 and Roston Chase in 2019 bagged eight-wicket hauls - against England in Bridgetown.
11.5 Overs bowled by Shamar in Australia's second innings. These are the fewest overs bowled by a player in a Test innings for West Indies while picking up seven or more wickets.
216 Fourth-innings target that Australia failed to chase at the Gabba is the lowest for them at home in the last 25 years. The previous instance of Australia losing at home chasing a lower target was 175 against England at the MCG in 1998.
9 Batters, including Steven Smith at the Gabba, to carry their bat in the fourth innings of a Test match. Smith is also the first opener to carry the bat in the fourth innings since Dean Elgar against India in 2018. The previous Australian to carry the bat was David Warner against New Zealand in 2011, also in an unsuccessful chase in Hobart. Smith also became the first opener to carry his bat in Tests since Tom Latham against Sri Lanka in December 2018.
3 Travis Head is the third to bag a king's pair in men's Tests for Australia, after Adam Gilchrist against India at the Eden Gardens in 2001 and Ryan Harris against England at the Adelaide Oval in 2010.

Sampath Bandarupalli is a statistician at ESPNcricinfo