Consecutive series wins and maximum single-digit scores in a match
Stats highlights from the Hobart Test between Australia and South Africa
Gaurav Sundararaman
15-Nov-2016
South Africa have become the third team to complete three consecutive series wins in Australia • ESPNcricinfo Ltd
326 Runs scored by South Africa to complete an innings victory. This is the fifth-lowest total by any team to complete an innings victory in Australia and the lowest since 1993. West Indies had made just 322 runs at the WACA on that occasion and had won by an innings and 25 runs.
2013 The last time before this Australia had lost five or more consecutive Tests. With the loss in Hobart, Australia have lost three in Sri Lanka and two at home. Before 2013, they had lost six consecutive Tests in 1984, all of them against West Indies.
193.5 Overs bowled in this Test. The last time a Test match in Australia produced a result in fewer balls was in 1950, when Australia won an Ashes Test at the Gabba in 129.2 eight-ball overs.
558 Number of balls faced by Australia match - second least in a Test at home in the last 100 years. They had survived just 457 balls against England in the Brisbane Test in 1928-29.
16 Number of single-digit scores by the Australia batsmen in the match - their joint-most in any Test. The last time before this they had 16 such scores in a Test was in 1912 at the Oval.
6/77 Kyle Abbott's bowling figures in the second innings of this Test - the best performance in an innings for South Africa against Australia since Shaun Pollock's 7 for 87 in Adelaide in 1998. Abbott has taken 12 wickets in two matches against Australia at an average of 20.58.