A dream year for Bumrah and India's quicks

India have unearthed a pace-bowling sensation in the longer format in the form of Jasprit Bumrah, who, since his debut in South Africa in January, has impressed with his ability to bowl on different kinds of pitches and consistently keep up his pace. Bumrah has played all his nine Tests abroad, which is unusual for an Indian pace bowler. In the nine Tests so far, Bumrah has taken 45 wickets at 21.24 and has struck once every eight overs. He has three five wicket hauls - one each in South Africa, England and Australia - of which two have aided in wins for India, while the side holds the advantage in the ongoing MCG Test. With one more innings left in the game, Bumrah could smash the record for the quickest Indian fast bowler to 50 Test wickets.

Some of the numbers from Bumrah's spell today and the exceptional year that the Indian pace bowlers have had.

45 Wickets taken by Bumrah away from home in 2018, the most by an Indian bowler in away Tests in a year. His team-mate Mohammed Shami also features in the list, at a close second, with 43 wickets. Bumrah's 45 wickets is also the most by a bowler from India in their debut year.

6/33 The second-best bowling figures for an Indian pace bowler in Australia after Kapil Dev's 8 for 106 at Adelaide in 1985. Bumrah's six-for is his career-best in Tests and second best in his first-class career.

2 Wickets taken by Bumrah in this innings by bowling full length. His variations across line, length and delivery type have been a revelation. Barring short of good length, Bumrah took a wicket from each of the lengths he bowled today, striking with a full toss, yorker and the short ball.

247 Wickets taken by Indian bowlers in 2018, the most they have ever taken in a year. Their previous best was 237 wickets in 1979. In 14 matches, the Indian bowlers average just 24.15, the second-best in a year where they have played a minimum of five Tests.

292 Lead taken by India, their largest in Australia and third largest in SENA (South Africa, England, New Zealand and Australia) countries.

0 Scores in excess of 400 for Australia since March this year. Since the start of the South Africa tour, Australia have averaged 233 with the bat and have scored in excess of 350 only twice. In total of 17 innings Australia have scored less than 200 on five occasions and above 300 only on three occasions. In this period Australia have managed just one century, which was scored by Usman Khawaja in Dubai.

1 Runs scored by batsmen from positions three to five for India. This is their joint lowest run aggregate in Tests for these batting positions. Previously they had aggregated 1 in 1953 against West Indies. This is also the second instance this year that Virat Kohli and Pujara have scored a duck in the same innings.