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Following are the statistical highlights of the fourth day's play in the fourth and final cricket Test between India and Australia in Adelaide on Sunday.
- Tributes flow in for retiring Gilchrist
# Australia's first innings total of 563 is their second best against India in Adelaide, next only to their 674 in 1947-48.
# This was the the second instance of both Australia and India scoring 500-plus runs in their first innings. In the 2003-04 Adelaide Test, Australia had made 556 followed by 523 by India.
# Irfan Pathan [Images], with Brett Lee's [Images] wicket, has taken his tally of wickets to 100, thus becoming the seventh Indian all-rounder to accomplish the feat of double of 1,000 runs and 100 wickets in Test cricket.
Vinoo Mankad, Kapil Dev [Images], Ravi Shastri, Anil Kumble [Images], Javagal Srinath and Harbhajan Singh [Images] are the other six to have accomplished the 'double'. Pathan is now the 16th Indian bowler to bag have 100 wickets or more in Tests.
# Ricky Ponting [Images] (140 off 266 balls) hit his fifth century against India and his 34th overall. Ponting now equals India's Sunil Gavaskar [Images] and West Indian Brian Lara [Images] in most number of Test centuries. Only Sachin Tendulkar [Images] (39) has posted more centuries than Ponting, Gavaskar and Lara.
# Ponting's five hundreds at Adelaide is a record, overtaking the previous record of four jointly held by Allan Border [Images] and David Boon.
# Ponting also completed his 1500 runs against India -- 1521 (average 49.06) -- in 19 Tests. He is the third Australian after Matthew Hayden [Images] (1654 in 14 Tests) and Allan Border (1567 in 20 Tests) to amass 1500 runs or more against India.
# Ponting and Clarke's 210-run partnership for the fourth wicket is a record for Australia against India for that wicket, eclipsing the 178 between Dean Jones and Allan Border in Chennai in 1987-88.
# Clarke (118 off 243 balls) recorded his sixth Test hundred, his second against India.
# Clarke also completed his 2000 runs in Tests -- 2044 at an average of 46.45 in 33 Tests. He is the 48th Australian to accomplish the feat in Test Cricket.
# For the fourth time in a Test innings against India, three Australians have scored centuries. The previous three instances were in Adelaide in 1947-48, Melbourne in 1967-68 and Chepauk, Madras, in 1986-87.
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