Australia v India 2014-15 - 1st Test, Day 3: Facts and figures

Virat Kohli scored his 7th century in Test cricket today

India’s stand-in captain Virat Kohli stamped his mark on the 4-match Test series against Australia at his first given opportunity by racking up a classy 115 off 184 balls in the first innings of the ongoing Adelaide Test. India finished day three at a relatively strong 369/5, but it could have been so much better had Kohli not lost his concentration with just two more overs left in the day and top-edged a pull off a short ball from Mitchell Johnson to Ryan Harris at fine leg.

Going into day four, the visitors trail Australia by 148 runs with just five wickets in hand.

Here are some of the statistical highlights from the day’s play:

4 – Virat Kohli, courtesy of his knock of 115 today, became just the 4th Indian to score a Test century on his captaincy debut. Vijay Hazare, Sunil Gavaskar, and Dilip Vengsarkar are the other three to have achieved this rare feat.

73 – Despite having been a prolific run scorer for India in Test cricket since his debut in 2010, Cheteshwar Pujara’s knock of 73 was his second highest score in Test matches away from home. His highest away score is the 153 he scored against South Africa at Johannesburg last year.

2 – Another illustration of Pujara’s struggles in recent times is the fact that he has scored a half-century only twice in his last 8 Test matches.

701 – The number of centuries scored from the No.4 position in Test cricket. Kohli’s hundred was the 701st while Michael Clarke’s century, earlier in the match, was the 700th.

174 – Number of Test hundreds scored at the Adelaide Oval in Adelaide, Australia. Only Lord’s Cricket Ground, with 228 tons, has witnessed more Test centuries being scored.

4 – Kohli also becomes just the 4th Indian captain to score a Test century in Australia. Mohammad Azharuddin (106 in 1992), Sachin Tendulkar (116 in 1999) and Sourav Ganguly (144 in 2003) are the only others to do so.

40.23 – Ajinkya Rahane’s average in Test matches for India held in 2014. He is the only Indian batsman to be averaging 40 or more this calendar year.

10 – This was the first time in 10 Test innings that Kohli surpassed the score of 50. His highest score in this period prior to today was 39, which he scored against England in the first ?innings of the third Test at Southampton.

3 – Michael Clarke has joined Matthew Hayden and Sir Don Bradman in being the only three batsmen to have more Test hundreds than fifties (batsmen with a minimum of 25 Test hundreds).

6.8 – Johnson’s economy rate in the first 15 overs of the Indian innings. It was by far his worst performance when he has bowled a minimum of 5 overs in an innings.