#PakvsAus Statistical highlights from day five of the first Test between Australia and Pakistan at Dubai 9 – Number of Test matches Australia have lost in Asia since 2008. Eight of these defeats have come in India with one loss in the UAE (against Pakistan in Dubai). The only win during this period was against Sri Lanka at Galle in 2011. The seven previous years yielded 11 victories, including series wins in Sri Lanka, India and the UAE (against Pakistan in 2002). 15 – Number of wickets Australia lost to spinners (seven each to Yasir Shah and Zulfiqar Babar; one to Mohammad Hafeez) in Dubai. Australia have lost 99 wickets (including two run outs) in their last five Tests in Asia and more than 80 percent of those have been to spin bowling. They lost 17 wickets against spinners at Delhi, 14 each at Mohali and Hyderabad, and 20 at Chennai during the 2013 series against India. 118 – Number of years since an older captain than Pakistan’s Misbah-ul-Haq (40 years and 151 days) beat Australia in a Test. The oldest captain to do so was England’s WG Grace, who won at The Oval in 1896 aged 48 years and 25 days old. On the opposite side of spectrum, the youngest captain to win against Australia was Javed Miandad (22 years and 260 days) at Karachi in 1980. 13 – Number of Tests Misbah-ul-Haq has won as captain. The Pakistan skipper is now only two victories away from becoming the most successful captain in the history of Pakistan cricket. Javed Miandad and Imran Khan both won 14 Tests each. Misbah was appointed captain in October 2010 and since then only Graeme Smith (16), MS Dhoni (17) and Michael Clarke (19) have won more Tests. 7 – Number of wickets Yasir Shah grabbed in Dubai - the most by a Pakistan leg-spinner on Test debut. Shah returned match figures of 7-116 to beat the previous record set by Shahid Afridi (5-101) in his debut at Karachi in 1998, also against Australia. 3 – Zulfiqar Babar (35 years and 320 days) became third-oldest bowler from Pakistan to claim a five-wicket haul in Tests. The two above him are Saeed Ajmal (36y and 299d) against Sri Lanka at Galle in 2014 and Mohammad Nazir (37y and 326d) against India at Nagpur in 1983. 86 – At end of the Test in Dubai, the combined experience of Pakistan’s playing XI was just 86 wickets, which is their smallest sum of wickets to win a Test since defeating England at the Oval in 1954. The Pakistan XI then had a combined experience of only 71 wickets. 1982 – The year when Pakistan last defeated Australia in consecutive Tests. Although here the previous win came four years ago at Leeds in 2010. In 1982, when Pakistan won those two they went on to win the next four on the trot. 273 – The boundary drought in Australia innings. The touring batsmen did not hit a boundary for 273 balls between David Warner’s four on the last ball of ninth over on day four and Mitchell Johnson’s flick square 45.3 overs later. 8 – Number of times Australia have lost a Test by more than 100 runs since 2007, the year in which Australian greats Shane Warne, Glenn McGrath, Justin Langer announced their retirements. Five of these defeats were with a margin of over 200 runs and two of them have come this year – by 221 runs against Pakistan in Dubai and by 231 runs against South Africa in Port Elizabeth. Between 2000 and 2007 (when Australia had Warne, McGrath, Ricky Ponting, Mathew Hayden, Adam Gilchrist etc amongst their ranks) they were defeated by 100-plus margins only twice, by 171 runs against India at Kolkata in 2001 and by 225 runs against England at Sydney in 2003. Eight is also the number of Player of the Match awards Younis Khan has earned in Tests - the fourth most by any Pakistan player. Only Inzamam-ul-Haq (9), Imran Khan (11) and Wasim Akram (17) have received more awards.
Posted on: Mon, 27 Oct 2014 10:26:22 +0000
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