Statistical highlights of the second day's play in the fourth Test between India [ Images ] and Australia [ Images ], in Adelaide.
# India (526) posted their highest innings total at Adelaide, surpassing their 523 in 2003-04. This is the third occasion when India have recorded a total of 500-plus at the venue. In 1985-86, India had made 520.
# India became the first team to post three totals of 500-plus against Australia at Adelaide.
# Adam Gilchrist [ Images ], with Anil Kumble's [ Images ] dismissal, established a world record for most dismissals -- 414 (377 catches + 37 stumpings) in 96 Tests.
# Gilchrist, with Harbhajan's dismissal, had equalled Mark Boucher's [ Images ] record of 413 dismissals (394 catches + 19 stumpings) in 109 Tests.
# Harbhajan and Kumble put on 107 runs for the eighth wicket. The pair became the first to be associated in a hundred run partnership for this wicket-position against Australia at Adelaide, bettering the 96-run partnership between Eddie Paynter and Hedley Verity for England [ Images ] in 1932-33.
# Overall, the aforesaid stand is India's third best against Australia - the top two being 129 between Sachin Tendulkar [ Images ] and Harbhajan Singh [ Images ] at Sydney [ Images ] in 2007-08 and 127 between Syed Kirmani and Karsan Ghavri at Mumbai [ Images ] in 1979-80.
# Of the three eighth wicket partnerships of 100-plus for India against Australia, Harbhajan figures in two.
# Kumble has been associated in a 100-run partnership four times - 3 times for the eighth wicket and one for the sixth wicket.
# Harbhajan's 63 is his second fifty against Australia - his fourth overall. All his four fifties have been recorded by Harbhajan away from home as under:
Runs Balls S.Rate Opponents Venue Series
66 71 92.96 Zimbabwe Bulawayo 2001
63 92 68.48 Australia Sydney 2007-08
63 103 61.16 Australia Adelaide 2007-08
54 37 145.95 England Nottingham 2002.
# Harbhajan's tally of 135 (ave.27.00) is his best in a Test series, surpassing his tally of 102 (ave.34.00) in two Tests against Zimbabwe in 2001.
# For the first time in his Test career, Harbhajan has recorded two fifties in successive Tests/in a series.
# For the first time in his Test career, Harbhajan faced 100 balls (103) in an innings. In the 2007-08 Sydney Test, he had faced 92 balls to score 63.
# Five players have recorded 50-plus in an Indian innings -- Sachin Tendulkar (153), Virender Sehwag [ Images ] (63), Harbhajan (63), VVS Laxman [ Images ](51) and Kumble (87). This is the sixth occasion when five or more fifty-plus innings have been recorded by India in an away Test -- the previous five instances being -- 6 vs England at The Oval in 2007; 5 vs Sri Lanka [ Images ] at Colombo, SSC in 1998-99, 5 vs. Bangladesh at Mirpur in 2007; 5 vs. England at Trent Bridge in 2007 and 5 vs Australia at Sydney in 2007-08.
# Kumble (87) registered his highest Test score as captain - his first fifty as captain.
# Kumble's innings of 87 is the second best by an Indian captain at Adelaide. Mohammad Azharuddin [ Images ] had made 106 off 162 balls as captain at this venue in January 1992.
# Kumble's innings is his third best score, next only to his career-best 110 not out against England at The Oval in 2007 and 88 against South Africa [ Images ] at Kolkata [ Images ] in 1996-97.
# Kumble's first fifty against Australia is his fifth in Test cricket.
# Kumble (205 balls), for the first time, has faced 200 balls in a Test innings. During his career-best knock, he had faced 193 balls.
# Interestingly, both Kumble and Sachin have faced the same number of balls (205) in India's innings.
# Sachin Tendulkar (153) became the fourth Indian to register an innings of 150 or more at Adelaide, joining Rahul Dravid [ Images ] - 233 in 2003-04; Sandeep Patil - 174 in 1980-81 and Sunil Gavaskar [ Images ] - 166 not out in 1985-86.
# Sachin's 153 is his 17th score of 150-plus. Only Brian Lara [ Images ] (19) and Don Bradman (18) have recorded more 150-plus innings than Sachin.
# Away from home, Sachin has recorded 9 innings of 150-plus. Steve Waugh [ Images ] and Brian Lara has recorded 10 each.
# Sachin has taken his tally to 480 (ave.80.00) in the current series - the most by any batsman so far.
# Kumble and Ishant Sharma [ Images ] put on 58 runs, India's second best stand for the 10th wicket at Adelaide, next only to the 94 between Sunil Gavaskar and Shivlal Yadav in 1985-86.
# Ishant (14 not out) recorded his second best score -- his best is 23 at Sydney in the second Test of the series.
# For Australia, Brett Lee [ Images ] has been the most successful bowler in the series so far - 22 wickets at an average of 21.27, followed by Stuart Clark - 14 (ave.25.57) and Mitchell Johnson [ Images ] - 14 (ave.35.50).
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