Statistical highlights after the end of the second Test match between India and Australia at the SCG in Sydney on Sunday.
# Australia, with their 2-0 lead over India, have retained the Border-Gavaskar Trophy.
# Australia, with their 122-run win, have equalled the world record of 16 victories in succession (between December 26, 2005 and January 6, 2008), established under the captain-ship of Steve Waugh between October 14, 1999 and March 1, 2001.
# Ponting became the first Australian captain to have won five Tests at SCG.
# Australia have won 4, lost 1 and drawn 4 out of 9 played against India at the SCG with win percentage of 44.44.
# Michael Hussey's unbeaten 145 (his first century against India) is his highest score in Australia, bettering his 137 against West Indies at Hobart in November 2005.
# Hussey has now recorded eight centuries - two each against West Indies and Sri Lanka and one each against England, India, South Africa and Bangladesh.
# Thanks to his unbeaten century knock, Hussey's average is now 84.80 after 20 Tests.
# Andrew Symonds (302 at an average of 100.66) became the second batsman to amass 300 runs in the series. Matthew Hayden, with 307 runs at an average of 76.75 is the leading run-getter in the series.
# Anil Kumble, with 15 wickets at 29.33 runs apiece, is the leading wicket-taker in the series so far.
# Kumble became the first Indian bowler to have claimed 20 wickets (ave.32.95) in 3 Tests at SCG.
# Kumble (599 wickets at 28.67 runs apiece) needs one wicket to join the two bowlers with 600-plus wickets in Test Cricket - Muttiah Muralitharan (723) and Shane Warne (708).
# Adam Gilchrist (7 and 1) is without a fifty in his last eleven innings against India. He has recorded 14 single-digit scores out of 28 innings against India. His aggregate is 725 in 16 Tests at an average of 27.88. Against all other opponents, he has averaged 40-plus.
# Sourav Ganguly, during the course of his innings of 51 completed his 1000 runs against Australia - 1045 runs at an average of 34.83 in 18 Tests. He is the seventh Indian to complete 1000 runs against Australia.
# Ganguly, for the first time in a Test match against Australia, has recorded two fifties - 67 & 51.
# Ganguly, with his 32nd Test fifty, has aggregated 200-plus in the first two Tests of the series - 201 at an average of 50.25 and became the second Indian batsman after Sachin Tendulkar (243 at an average of 81.00) to register 200 plus in the series so far.
# Wasim Jaffer's sixth duck in 51 innings is his first against Australia in four innings.
# Jaffer has recorded all his six ducks away from home - two at Chittagong (pair of spectacles) and one each at Sydney, Kingston, Nottingham and The Oval.
# After recording a double century and a fifty - 202 & 56 against Pakistan in the Kolkata Test, Jaffer has not even touched a score of "twenty" in his last six innings - 17 & 18 against Pakistan at Bangalore; 4 & 15 at MCG and 3 & 0 at SCG.
# Mahendra Singh Dhoni (35) registered his highest score against Australia, eclipsing his 11 in the second innings of the Melbourne Test.
# Anil Kumble (45 not out) registered his highest Test score against Australia, eclipsing his 39 at Bangalore in March 1998.
# The match aggregate of 1606 for the loss of 37 wickets is the second best in India-Australia Tests - the highest ever between the two countries is 1747 for 25 wickets in the 2003-04 Sydney Test.
# Symonds got his first Man of the Match award in a Test.
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