Ashes Stats: Usman Khawaja sixth Australian to score at least 120 at each of country's main grounds

By Benedict Bermange, Cricket Statistician

Image: Usman Khawaja celebrates after reaching his century

Usman Khawaja has joined an exclusive Australian club after scoring his first Ashes hundred at the SCG. Sky Sports statistician Benedict Bermange has more..

Usman Khawaja is the sixth player to have made a Test score of at least 120 at each of Australia's five main grounds (Gabba, Adelaide Oval, WACA, MCG and SCG).

The others are Ricky Ponting (lowest score 196), David Boon (131), Matthew Hayden (123), David Warner (122) and Justin Langer (121).

Somewhat bizarrely, in this series, the team that have won the toss have been behind on first innings in all five Tests.

Steve Smith's innings of 83 took his tally for the series to 687 runs - the sixth-highest for an Australian batsman in an Ashes series...

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Runs by an Australian in an Ashes series

Player Season Matches Runs
Don Bradman 1930 5 974
Mark Taylor 1989 6 839
Don Bradman 1936/37 5 810
Don Bradman 1934 5 758
Arthur Morris 1948 5 696
Steve Smith 2017/18 5 687

Moeen Ali's wicket of Smith was just his second since the first innings of the first Test, over which time he had taken one wicket for 398 runs in 112 overs.

Mason Crane joined Tom Curran as England bowlers to have missed out on their first Test wicket in this series due to overstepping.

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Image: Mason Crane was denied a first Test wicket because of a no-ball

Shaun Marsh has been not out overnight in every Ashes Test so far in this series. The five previous Australians to be left 98 or 99 not out overnight all went on to make their century the next day.

This is the fourth time the Marsh brothers have batted together in Test cricket. Their first three partnerships totaled a combined 67 runs and this one has so far produced 104 runs.

They are still some way short of the highest Test partnerships between brothers...

Highest Test partnerships by brothers

Partnership Wicket Batsmen Team Opponent Venue Season
269 4 Grant and Andy Flower Zimbabwe Pakistan Harare 1994/95
264 3 Ian and Greg Chappell Australia New Zealand Wellington 1973/74
231 4 Mark and Steve Waugh Australia West Indies Kingston 1994/95

Australia's top six have contributed five scores of at least fifty and a duck. This is the fourth time in Test history that has occurred...

Teams to have contributed five scores of at least fifty and a duck

Team Against Venue Season Duck for...
West Indies New Zealand Auckland 1951/52 Roy Marshall
West Indies England The Oval 1976 Gordon Greenidge
England India Delhi 1981/82 David Gower
Australia England Sydney 2017/18 Cameron Bancroft
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