The statistical highlights of the third day's play in the fourth and final cricket Test between India [ Images ] and Australia [ Images ] in Adelaide on Saturday.

# Ricky Ponting [ Images ] (79 not out off 150 balls) posted his highest score of the series. Ponting's 40th Test fifty is his sixth against India.

# As captain, Ponting has registered 19 fifties, apart from 13 centuries, in Tests.

# Matthew Hayden [ Images ] recorded his 30th Test hundred -- sixth against India.

# Hayden also bettered the feats of Jacques Kallis [ Images ] (South Africa [ Images ]) and Sir Donald Bradman (Australia) - 29 centuries each. He has now moved to the sixth place after Sachin Tendulkar [ Images ] (39), Sunil Gavaskar [ Images ] (34), Brian Lara [ Images ] (34), Ricky Ponting (33) and Steve Waugh [ Images ] (32) in the list of leading centurions.

# When his score reached 42, Hayden also completed his 5000 runs at home - 5061 at an average of 62.48. He is the fourth Australian, after Ponting, Allan Border [ Images ] and Steve Waugh and the ninth batsman overall to have amassed 5,000 runs at home.

# Hayden has also extended his record for most centuries at home to 21.

# Hayden registered his third hundred in successive Tests in the present series -- 124 at Melbourne [ Images ], 123 at Sydney [ Images ] and 103 at Adelaide.

# Hayden is now the first Australian to amass 400 runs in the series -- 410 at an average of 82.00 in five innings.

# Hayden set another record. He became the most successful batsman for Australia against India -- 1654 runs at an average of 66.16, including six centuries and six fifties, obliterating Border's aggregate of 1567 runs at an average of 52.23 in 20 Tests.

# Hayden is now the third Australian player after Bradman (4 in five Tests in 1947-48) and David Boon (3 in five Tests in 1991-92) to post three or more hundreds in a Test series against India.

# Hayden has registered 3 or more centuries in successive Tests on three occasions.

# Phil Jaques posted his third fifty of the series.

# The 159-run partnership between Hayden and Jaques is Australia's best for the first wicket against India at Adelaide, surpassing the 99 between Bobby Simpson and Bill Lawry in 1967-68.

# The stand is Australia's third best for the first wicket against India, next only to the 217 between David Boon and Geoff Marsh at Sydney in 1985-86 and 191 between Bobby Simpson and Bill Lawry at Melbourne in  1967-68.