yuppie wrote:Just pride left for Australia now.
Perhaps they can add to these great stats from this series.
Highest Australian score....79 Harris
Total 50's.......8
Harris 2
Head 2
Marsh, Khwaja, Finch and Cumming 1
1 innings to go, so many records to be broken......
To answer the earlier question, surprisingly the last time Australia failed to score a hundred in a home series was 2009/10 v the West Indies. However, that seems to have been a bit of a freak result - Australia's batting average in that series was 42, they scored 15 fifties, but the highest individual score was 99.
Other than that, Australia have failed to score a century in a home series only six times, five of which came in the 1870s or 1880s. And four of the seven previous occasions where they failed to score a century in a home series, the 'series' was a one-off match.
Australia have never yet failed to score a century in a home series of 4 or more matches. What is more, Harris' 79 is the lowest individual series high score in a home series for Australia since the 1880s
http://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine ... pe=batting
http://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine ... pe=batting
On the batting average front, this is currently the 13th worst home series for Australia. However, eight of those thirteen worse performances took place before World War I, so are hardly comparable. Although currently the Australian team batting average is ever so slightly better than the team average in the 2016/17 defeat to South Africa.
http://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine ... iew=series
The 326 made at Perth is the team's high score for the series, which is the lowest high score in a home series since 1980, when New Zealand toured in what was an extraordinarily low-scoring series overall. Lillee and Thomson on one side, Hadlee on the other (Hadlee took 19 Australian wickets in 3 games!). The only other instances of Australia registering a lower team high score for a series took place in the 19th century.
http://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine ... iew=series
No matter how you cut it, this is one of Australia's worst home batting performances, certainly of the modern era. You can argue about which was the actual worst, but it's right up there.
Of course, I should probably have done the analysis at the end of today's play, as it could get better or worse for Australia. Maybe I will this evening