Wednesday 27 December 2017 09:54, UK
Alastair Cook has joined Sunil Gavaskar in an exclusive club after scoring his fifth Ashes hundred in Australia. Sky Sports statistician Benedict Bermange has more..
Alastair Cook scored his fifth Ashes century - all five of which have been scored in Australia.
Cook joins Sunil Gavaskar as the only visiting player to score a century at all five of Australia's main Test grounds - Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth, Melbourne and Sydney.
Cook's highest score in Tests against Australia in England is 96 at Lord's in 2015. He has failed to convert all six of his fifties into centuries in Ashes cricket in England but in Australia, it is five out of 10.
Visiting batsmen scoring centuries on the most grounds in Australia...
In the last two Tests, both Craig Overton and Tom Curran have taken their first Test wicket by bowling the number one ranked Test batsman, in their case Steve Smith. The last bowler to achieve that feat was Intikhab Alam, who bowled Colin McDonald at Karachi in 1959.
With his dismissal of Tim Paine, James Anderson edged past Courtney Walsh's total of 519 Test wickets into sole possession of fifth place among the leading Test wicket-takers.
Steve Smith scored 445 runs in Test cricket at the MCG, the sixth-most between dismissals by a player at a single Test ground...
Smith also passed 500 runs in back-to-back Ashes series, joining a select group of players who have achieved that...
The previous record for the MCG was set by Steve Waugh from 1994 to 1996 with 309 runs thanks to scores of 94no, 26no, 131no and 58no.
This was the third successive Melbourne Test in which Nathan Lyon has taken the first wicket for Australia - he dismissed Kraigg Brathwaite in 2015, Sami Aslam in 2016 and Mark Stoneman in 2017.
