Smith's dominance and Taylor's tryst with Sabina Park
Statistical highlights from the first day's play in the second Test between West Indies and Australia at Kingston
Bishen Jeswant
12-Jun-2015
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1 Number of players who have scored 2000-plus Test runs over the last two years - Steven Smith, with 2049 runs from 21 Tests at an average of 64.03
2 Number of 50-plus scores for Michael Clarke in his last 20 Test innings. He was dismissed for 47 in the first innings. Clarke has scored only 557 runs in his last 20 innings at an average of 32.76
19 Number of overs bowled by Kraigg Brathwaite on the first day. He had only bowled 13.4 overs in his previous 21 Tests, and picked up a solitary wicket (v India, 2011)
31.5 Jerome Taylor's bowling strike-rate at Sabina Park, Jamaica, the best for any bowler who has taken at least 20 wickets at this venue. His bowling average of 13.1 is the second-best. He returned figures of 3 for 18 on the first day
5 Taylor's first spell in this match read 5-5-0-2. This is only the third time since 2002 that a bowler has started a Test with five straight maidens and all three of them have happened in the last couple of years. James Anderson did it against India in the Lord's Test last year. Al-Amin Hossain did this against West Indies in Kingstown.
5 Number of centuries Smith has made in his last-six Tests. He has made 934 runs at an average of 133.42 in these matches. He has now scored nine Test centuries, going past Graham Yallop, Victor Trumper and Ian Redpath, on the list of Australians with most Test hundreds
24 David Warner's batting average in his last five Tests; Warner has scored 216 runs in nine innings in these Tests and has been dismissed for two of his four career ducks. His previous seven Tests had produced 1061 runs at an average of 75.78 including six hundreds and three fifties