Stats - Australia whitewash Pakistan for seventh time
Pakistan's losing streak in Australia now stands at 17 Tests
Sampath Bandarupalli
06-Jan-2024
Yet another clean sweep for Australia against Pakistan • Getty Images and Cricket Australia
17 - Australia's winning streak against Pakistan at home in Test cricket after their eight-wicket win in Sydney. No other team has defeated an opponent in a country in even ten consecutive Tests. The second-longest streak is nine, also for Australia at home against West Indies between 2000 and 2009.
7 - Test series of three or more matches where Australia have clean-swept Pakistan. Six of those series wins came in Australia, including five since 1999. No other team has clean-swept an opponent more often. England have clean-swept New Zealand five times and India four times, while Australia have whitewashed England on four occasions.
6 - Players before David Warner to score 50 or more in a successful fourth-innings chase in their last Test. Only Jack Ryder did it before Warner for Australia, scoring an unbeaten 57 against England at Melbourne in 1929.
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10 - Fifty-plus scores in the fourth innings of a Test for Warner, the joint-most by any Australia batter along with Matthew Hayden and Ricky Ponting. However, only two of Warner's ten fifty-plus scores came in successful chases, with his unbeaten 87 against England during the 2017-18 Ashes series in Brisbane being the other one.
4 - Aamer Jamal became the fourth Pakistan player to score 100 runs and take a five-for in a Test. The last Pakistan player to do so was Wasim Akram, against Australia in Adelaide in 1990. Imran Khan (twice) and Mushtaq Mohammad (twice) are others to achieve this feat.
18 - Wickets taken by Jamal in this series. Only two Pakistan bowlers - Fazal Mahmood (20) against India in 1952-53 and Nasim-ul-Ghani (19) against Australia in 1958 - have taken more in their debut series. Jamal is also the first Pakistan player with a 50-plus score and a five-for in his debut series.
3 - Opening partnerships broken in the Sydney Test without adding a run - only the second such instance in Test cricket. The 1950 Brisbane Test between Australia and England is the other one.
115 - Pakistan's second-innings score is the lowest in Sydney for any team since South Africa's 113 against the hosts in 1998.
857 - Runs aggregated in the Sydney Test. In Tests where a result was achieved, it's the fewest at this venue since 1998 when the Australia-South Africa Test ended with 821 runs.
11 - Wickets fell in the third session on day three. It was the first time in more than 20 years that ten or more wickets fell in a session in Australia. Australia lost four wickets in 3.2 overs, and Pakistan seven in 26.
Sampath Bandarupalli is a statistician at ESPNcricinfo