How Hoggard rescued England
Stats highlights from the third day's play at Adelaide
Cricinfo staff
03-Dec-2006
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In his four previous Tests in Australia, Matthew Hoggard had managed eight wickets at an exorbitant 64.50 apiece. On the third day at Adelaide, though, Hoggard was instrumental in ensuring that England had something to cheer about despite Ricky Ponting getting his seventh hundred this year and Mike Hussey almost getting one too.
The key to Hoggard's success was his relentless accuracy, and his ability to adjust his line to the right-left combination that Australia had almost throughout the day. He mostly pitched it in line with the stumps when bowling to the left-handers, but against Ponting, Damien Martyn and Michael Clarke, he pitched it almost exclusively outside off, and finally induced errors from Martyn and Ponting.
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Other stats highlights
58.37 - Ricky Ponting's average at the Adelaide Oval. He has now scored four hundreds and an equal number of fifties in 20 innings here.
77.41 - Michael Hussey's Test average. In his last eight innings (including his 91 at Adelaide) he has made six scores of more than 70.
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21.33 - Damien Martyn's average against Matthew Hoggard. In 193 balls, Martyn has only scored 64 runs for three dismissals, that's a scoring rate of 1.98 per over
83 - The average partnership between Ponting and Hussey. In nine innings they have scored 664 runs, with three century stands
192 - The four-wicket partnership between Ponting and Hussey. It's Australia's fourth-highest for this wicket at Adelaide - the highest is the 214 between Allan Border and Dean Jones against West Indies in 1989.
109.09 - Ponting's average in Test cricket in 2006. In 14 innings he has scored seven hundreds and three fifties, and his aggregate for the year is exactly 1200.