West Indies finally manage to bat 100 overs

52.57 Darren Bravo's average in overseas Tests, the highest among West Indian batsmen who have played at least 20 away matches. Bravo's average at home is 31.25, which means the difference between his away and home averages is 21.32. This difference is the second highest among batsmen who have played at least 30 innings each home and away: the only batsman with a higher difference is India's Mohinder Amarnath, who averaged 51.86 away and 30.44 at home (difference 21.42).

73.33 The average partnership for West Indies' seventh wicket in this series. Their two 50-plus stands in this series have both been for the seventh wicket: 99 between Bravo and Kemar Roach in the first innings in Hobart, and 90 between Carlos Brathwaite and Bravo today. Their next-highest stand in this series is 42, also between Bravo and Roach, for the eighth wicket today.

12 Consecutive innings in overseas Tests before this one, when West Indies did not bat for 100 overs. The last time they achieved this was a couple of years ago, in Hamilton in 2013, when they played 116.2 overs to score 367. (The promptly folded in 31.5 overs in their second innings of that Test.) In these 12 innings, the average length of their innings was only 65 overs.

21 West Indian batsmen who have scored 50 or more on Test debut in an overseas Test. Carlos Brathwaite became the latest to join this list today. The last batsman to achieve this before him was his partner at the crease, Darren Bravo, who made 58 against Sri Lanka in Galle in his debut in 2010. The current West Indian team has a third player who is in this club: Denesh Ramdin scored 56 on debut in Colombo in 2005.

188 Runs added by West Indies' last four wickets, which lifted them from 6 for 83 to 271. The last time their last four partnerships added more runs was in 2012 at Edgbaston, when Tino Best scored 95 at No. 11 as the last four wickets added 218.

45 Test wickets for Nathan Lyon in 2015, his best in any calendar year; his previous highest was 42 in 2013. This year Lyon has taken those wickets in 13 Tests, at an average of 28.75. Lyon is the third-highest wicket-taker in Tests for Australia this year, after Josh Hazlewood (51 at 22.56) and Mitchell Starc (46 at 25.06).

5.59 Australia's run rate in their second innings, the fifth time they have scored at more than five an over in Tests in 2015 (min 30 overs). Of their ten fastest Test innings with the same qualification, five have been scored in 2015.

3 Instances of two batsmen scoring at least one century and a fifty in the same Test at the MCG. Usman Khawaja and Steven Smith have both achieved it in this game. The two previous such instances were in 1929 and in 1928. In all, there have been 28 instances of at least one century and a half-century in an MCG Test; last year Virat Kohli achieved the feat, while Chris Rogers did it in 2013.