England's 5468-day wait ends in just two days at the MCG

5468 Days between England's previous win in Australia and their victory at the MCG on Saturday. Since their win at the SCG in January 2011, England had played 18 Tests in Australia and lost 16, the joint-longest winless streak for any team in Australia.

3 Bilateral series with more than one Test ending inside two days before the 2025-26 Ashes. Australia's tour of England in 1888 had three such matches, while England's tour of South Africa in 1888-89 and 1895-96 also had two Tests that ended in two days. The 1912 triangular tournament, hosted by England featuring Australia and South Africa, also had two two-day Test matches.

Only two of the 450 men's Test matches in Australia before this Ashes had ended in two days - the Melbourne Test against West Indies in 1931 and the Brisbane Test against South Africa in 2022.

479 Balls Australia batted in the Melbourne Test - their fewest in a match since the Brisbane Test in the 1928 Ashes, when they were bundled out twice in 457 balls.

284 Runs scored by Australia in Melbourne, their second-lowest aggregate in a home Test since 1928, behind the 246 runs against South Africa in Hobart in 2016.

17 Tests Joe Root played in Australia without a victory until this MCG Test. Former New Zealand captain Daniel Vettori now holds the record for the most Tests in Australia without a win - 12. Ben Stokes also went 12 Tests in Australia without victory until the win in Melbourne.

46 Travis Head's score in the second innings in Melbourne was the highest individual score of the Test, making it only the fifth men's Test in Australia with no batter scoring a fifty. Overall, it is the 17th such Test in men's cricket.

1981 The last time a team won an Ashes Test without any of their batters scoring a fifty, England at Edgbaston. The Melbourne Test was the first that England won without an individual fifty since the Lord's Test against West Indies in 2000.

0 Overs bowled by spinners in Melbourne - the first such Test in Australia. The previous fewest balls bowled by spinners in a Test in Australia was 12 - in the 1984 WACA Test against West Indies. Nathan Lyon and Joe Root collectively bowled 18 balls in the Perth Test earlier this series, which is the third fewest.

39.02 Bowling strike rate in the five Tests played in Australia in 2025. It is the lowest strike rate for any host nation in a year with five or more Tests. The previous best was 43.8 in five Tests in South Africa in 2019.

Across their 11 Tests in 2025, Australia's bowlers had a strike rate of 36.7, the second best for a team in a year (minimum of five Tests) behind England's 32.7 in six Tests in 1896.

852 Number of balls in the Melbourne Test - the tenth fewest in a completed match - only five more than the Perth Test.

5571 Balls in the 2025-26 Ashes so far - the third fewest across the first four matches of a Test series. The first four matches of the 1902 Ashes had only 4675 balls, while the 1985-86 Wisden Trophy had only 5513 balls bowled in the first four games.