Stats - Another home Ashes win for Australia, England horror run continues

18 Consecutive Test matches for England without a win in Australia, a streak that began with their 5-0 drubbing in the 2013-14 Ashes. It is now the longest winless streak for any team in Test cricket in Australia, levelling New Zealand's 18-match streak between their wins in 1985 and 2011.

The last time England won a Test in Australia was back in 2011 at the SCG. England's match aggregate of 638 at Adelaide was their highest in Australia since that SCG Test. Their total of 352 in the chase is their highest in Australia since the 2017-18 MCG Test.

4719 Balls bowled in this Ashes series so far, the second fewest before the series winner was decided in any Ashes series that consisted of five or more matches. The fewest being 3991 balls in the 2001 Ashes, where Australia had a series-winning lead of 3-0 at the end of the third Test.

The 1950-51 Ashes is the quickest going by the number of overs bowled - 648 eight-ball overs - when Australia went 3-0 up, but 5184 balls were bowled by then. The eleven days in 2025-26 Ashes are the joint-second fewest by number of days, behind the 1921 Ashes, when Australia took a 3-0 lead in just eight days.

4 Consecutive Ashes series wins for Australia at home, a streak that began with the 2013-14 series. Australia clinched the series by the third Test itself on all four occasions, after winning the first three matches.

Only once have Australia had more successive Ashes series wins at home - five between 1990-01 and 2006-07. Australia, in fact, have taken a series-winning 3-0 lead by the third Test in six of the seven Ashes series at home since 2000.

The 2010-11 series was the only exception, which they lost 3-1, either side of Australia's longest Ashes series-winning streaks at home.

7 Consecutive Test wins for Australia at Adelaide Oval, since losing to India in 2018. Australia have won 12 of the 13 Test matches they have played at the venue since the beginning of 2013, with their defeat to India the exception.

Only two teams had longer winning streaks at a venue in Tests: 12 by West Indies at Barbados and 9 by Australia at Melbourne.

1 Alex Carey became the first wicketkeeper to score a century and a fifty for Australia in the same Test match. Carey scored 106 on Wednesday, making him the first wicketkeeper to score a hundred on the opening day of a men's Test for Australia.

Carey also had seven dismissals in the match, including five in the first innings. Only two other players have done the treble of a hundred, fifty and five dismissals in an innings in a Test match - South Africa's Denis Lindsay against Australia in 1966 and England's Matt Prior against New Zealand in 2013.

4 Number of player-of-the-match awards for Carey in Test cricket, the equal-second-most for a wicketkeeper in the format, behind only Adam Gilchrist's seven. Andy Flower, Kumar Sangakkara and Quinton de Kock also have four awards apiece.

Carey is also only the third wicketkeeper to be player of the match in a men's Ashes Test. The previous two were also Australians - Ian Healy at Nottingham in 1997 and Gilchrist at Birmingham in 2001.

51 Wickets for Mitchell Starc in Tests in 2025. Starc became the first bowler to reach 50 Test wickets this year. This is the second time he has done that in a calendar year, after taking exactly 50 in 2016. Starc's bowling strike rate of 28.7 in 2025 is the best for any bowler with 50-plus wickets in a calendar year.

567 Wickets for Nathan Lyon in Test cricket. He is now the sixth-highest wicket-taker in the format and the second-highest for Australia, going past Glenn McGrath's 563 with the twin strikes in his opening over in the first innings.

170 Travis Head's second innings score is the highest by an opener for Australia at home in the Ashes since Justin Langer's 250 at Melbourne in 2002. Only Chris Rogers (173 at Lord's in 2015) had a higher individual score among Australian openers in the Ashes since 2002.

Head now has a hundred in each of his last four Test matches at the Adelaide Oval. Only Michael Clarke has had hundreds in four consecutive Tests at this venue before him.

151 Wickets for Pat Cummins in Tests as captain. He is only the second player to complete this milestone, after Imran Khan, who has 187 wickets as captain for Pakistan.

17 Number of Tests that Joe Root has played in Australia, all during England's ongoing winless run. These are the second-most matches for any player in a country without a win. South Africa's Dudley Nourse played 20 Tests in South Africa without winning any, and lost 11.

Root has been part of 15 defeats in those 17 Tests, the joint-most by any player in a country, outside of home, alongside James Anderson and Alastair Cook, also in Australia.

190.1 Total overs batted by England at Adelaide, the most by them in a Test match since Brendon McCullum took over as head coach. The previous highest was 182.4 overs against India at Headingley earlier this year.

6 Men with multiple 50-plus scores and six-plus wicket hauls in a Test series, including Starc in this Ashes series. Starc followed up his 77 at Gabba with 54 in the first innings at Adelaide, the first instance of him scoring successive fifties in his Test career.

Starc has a total of 22 wickets in this Ashes, to go along with his 150 runs, including two fifties. Aubrey Faulkner (vs England in 1910) is the only other player with as many wickets and multiple 50-plus scores by the end of the third match of a Test series. Only three other players have scored 150-plus runs and taken 22-plus wickets across the first three matches of a Test series.