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Rogers: 5 fifties, 0 hundreds

Stats highlights from the first day of the fourth Test between India and Australia, in Sydney

Bishen Jeswant
Bishen Jeswant
06-Jan-2015
David Warner and Chris Rogers were unbeaten at the close, Australia v England, 4th Test, Melbourne, 3rd day, December 28, 2013

David Warner and Chris Rogers put on 200 runs for the first wicket, the ninth-highest opening partnership against India by any pair  •  Getty Images

4 Number of Australian openers who have made five consecutive scores of 50 or more. Chris Rogers has made back-to-back scores of 55, 55, 57, 69 and 95 in this series. The other Australian openers to do this are Mark Taylor, David Warner and Phil Jaques.
0 Number of Australian openers who have made five or more fifties in a series without making a hundred. If Rogers does not get a hundred in the second innings, he will become the first Australian opener to have done this. The only openers to have done this across countries are Michael Atherton and Conrad Hunte, who made six fifties each in 1993 and 1965 respectively.
200 The opening partnership between Warner and Rogers, the ninth-highest by any team against India. The last 200-plus opening stand by an Australian pair was between Warner and Ed Cowan, also against India, in Perth, in 2012. That was also the last instance of any team posting such a stand against India.
4 Number of hundreds scored by Warner against India, including today's. The only Australian opener to score more Test hundreds against India is Matthew Hayden, who scored six.
33 Number of Test matches played by Virat Kohli, the most by any of the players in the current Indian team. The last time that India fielded a team with its most experienced member having played less than 50 Tests was against Sri Lanka in 2001. Rahul Dravid, 48 Tests, was the senior-most member of that team. India lost that game by an innings and 77 runs.
1 Number of times that Australia's top four batsmen have all made 50-plus scores against India at home before today. Australia did this against India once previously, away from home, in Delhi in 2008.
79 Runs scored by Australia in the first fifteen overs of the first innings. Since 2001, this is the most runs scored by any team in the first 15 overs of the first day of a Test in Sydney. During this series, India have, on average, conceded 52 runs in the first ten overs of the first innings.

Bishen Jeswant is a stats sub editor at ESPNCricinfo. @bishen_jeswant