Australia became the first team to have only four wicket-takers in a five-match Test series
Monday 8 January 2018 08:45, UK
Moeen Ali's struggles against Nathan Lyon continued on day five at the SCG with the England all-rounder dismissed for a record-equalling seventh time by the off-spinner. Sky Sports statistician Benedict Bermange has more...
Since the start of the 2013/14 Ashes series, England have lost at least a Test in each of their 15 series barring just one (against Sri Lanka at home in 2016).
Of Nathan Lyons's 21 wickets in the series, 18 of them were left-handers (85%). That is the highest percentage in Test history for a bowler taking at least 20 wickets in a Test series.
Only two bowlers have dismissed more left-handers in a Test series than Nathan Lyon did in this Ashes series...
Moeen Ali became just the third batsman to be dismissed lbw by the same bowler four times in the same Test series...
In all, Lyon dismissed Moeen seven times in the series, equalling the record for a five-Test series.
In six-Test series it has happened twice - David Gower by Geoff Lawson in 1989 and Mike Atherton by Glenn McGrath in 1997.
Australia became the first team to have only four wicket-takers in a five-match Test series (Cummins, Hazlewood, Starc, Lyon). England were the first team to have only four wicket-takers in a four-match Test series (against Pak in 2010 - Swann, Anderson, Finn, Broad).
Bowlers who represent New South Wales in the Sheffield Shield took 87 England wickets in the series, whereas bowlers who represent other Australian State sides took none.
Alastair Cook has now lost more Test matches in Australia than any other player has in any specific country away from home...
Despite scoring an unbeaten double-hundred, Cook still averaged less than fifty in the series. Only one other player has managed that - Nawab of Pataudi Jr for India against England in 1963/64 who scored 203 not out yet averaged 38.50.
This was just the third Ashes series in which no bowler had a haul of more than five wickets in an innings - after the 1932/33 and 1938 series. The best bowling figures in this series were James Anderson's 5-43 at Adelaide.
The overall Ashes attendance of 865,451 is second only to the 1936/37 series which drew 943,000.
