James Anderson, Stuart Broad, Alastair Cook complete joint milestone for England

Only Chris Broad has bettered Dawid Malan for England in Perth...

By Benedict Bermange, Cricket Statistician

Image: Stuart Broad, Alastair Cook and James Anderson have played in 100 Tests together

Benedict Bermange has the numbers on a joint milestone for Alastair Cook, James Anderson and Stuart Broad - and why England should be confident of victory in Perth...

Alastair Cook, Stuart Broad and James Anderson are playing their 100th Test together, just the third group of three players to achieve that feat and the first not to include Sachin Tendulkar and Rahul Dravid.

100 Tests together

Matches Players Team
118 Tendulkar, Dravid, Laxman India
103 Tendulkar, Dravid, Ganguly India
100 Cook, Broad, Anderson England

Dawid Malan and Jonny Bairstow's partnership of 237 is England's highest fifth-wicket partnership against Australia, beating Denis Compton and Eddie Paynter's 206-run stand at Trent Bridge in 1938. It was England's joint-third best fifth-wicket partnership of all time:

Fifth-wicket partnerships

Partnership Batsman 1 Batsman 2 Against Venue Year
254 KWR Fletcher AW Greig India Bombay 1972/73
242 WR Hammond LEG Ames New Zealand Christchurch 1932/33
237 DCS Compton NWD Yardley South Africa Nottingham 1947
237 DJ Malan JM Bairstow Australia Perth 2017/18

Only Chris Broad has made a higher score than Malan for England in Tests at the WACA:

Chris Broad, 162 in 1986/87
Dawid Malan, 140 in 2017/18
David Gower, 136 in 1986/87
Jack Richards, 133 in 1986/87
Brian Luckhurst, 131 in 1970/71

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Image: Dawid Malan has the second-highest score by an England batsman in Perth

Bairstow's innings of 119 is just the fourth century by an England wicketkeeper in Tests in Australia.

Jack Richards, 133 in 1986/87 (Perth)
Jonny Bairstow, 119 in 2017/18 (Perth)
Matt Prior, 118 in 2010/11 (Sydney)
Alan Knott, 106no in 1974/75 (Adelaide)

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Only one side has ever scored more than 400 in their first innings in a Perth Test and lost the match - India scored 402 in 1977 and went on to lose by two wickets.

England lost their last six wickets for 35 runs from 51 deliveries - that is their fifth-worst batting collapse from a position of having been 368 or more for the loss of four wickets.

England batting collapses

Runs From Total Against Venue Year
14 493-4 507 Pakistan Karachi 1961/62
22 507-4 529 Australia Melbourne 1974/75
30 373-4 403 South Africa Johannesburg 1913/14
34 534-4 568 Windies Lord's 2004
35 368-4 403 Australia Perth 2017/18

England in their five innings in the series so far:
Wickets 1-5 - average 40.2 runs per wicket (1005 runs / 25 wickets)
Wickets 6-10 - average 14.2 runs per wicket (355 runs / 25 wickets)

On 10 of the previous 12 occasions that Steve Smith has passed fifty in Australia's first innings of a home Test he has gone on to score a century.

Batsmen have been unbeaten in the nineties on 225 previous occasions in Test cricket. On 185 of those occasions (82 per cent) they have gone on to complete their century.

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