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Congratulations to Australia on securing a 4-0 win in the recently-concluded series. Below are some of the highlights from Hobart's first-ever day/night Test and general series records.
- Australia's collapse to 12 for 3 is the second-worst start (based on the loss of the first three wickets) in a day-night Test. The worst at the comparable stage is 8 for 3 by West Indies against Sri Lanka at Bridgetown in 2018.
- The Australian first innings saw the first occasion of both David Warner and Steve Smith recording ducks in the same innings. Their illustrious careers had yielded 15341 runs between them at that stage, and they have played 72 times together.
- Based on players who have scored 7500 or more runs, Smith's sixth Test duck is the joint-third lowest number behind only Sir Clive Lloyd and Mark Taylor. Warner's tenth duck (in the first innings) placed him in joint-eleventh position for fewest ducks. Smith's second-ball dismissal is his second-briefest innings whilst Warner's 22-ball duck is his longest, none of his others having lasted more than six balls.
- The last occasion that England made as many as five changes to their team during an Ashes series was in 1993.
- Zak Crawley became the twenty-first fielder to take four catches (excluding wicket-keepers) in an innings for England. Ben Stokes holds the English record of five, whilst Mooen Ali was the last fielder to perform the feat, against India at The Oval last year. Crawley is the 95th player to hold four or more catches in one innings from all countries.
- Rory Burns is only the fourth England opener to be run out for a duck. The last occasion was Wilf Slack against West Indies at Port-of-Spain in 1985-86.
- Warner's second innings duck gave him his second career pair, both of which were against England. Warner is the first Australian opener to suffer a pair twice.
- Stuart Broad has dismissed Warner on fourteen occasions. In the pantheon of one bowler holding sway over one particular opponent, Broad's feat is joint ninth highest. The record is nineteen by Glenn McGrath over Michael Atherton.
- The match saw the ninth occasion between England and Australia that the openers from both sides accounted for three ducks. The last occasion was at Old Trafford in 2019 when Warner and Burns were the casualties also.
- Mark Wood's career best 6 for 37 in Australia's second innings is also the second best at Hobart behind only Shane Warne's 6 for 31 against New Zealand in 1993-94.
- In losing all their second innings wickets for just 56 runs, England endured their third-worst collapse following an opening stand of over 50 in their Test history. The other such collapses were 47 (vs. Australia at Melbourne in 1907-08: from 58-0 to 105 all out), and 52 (vs. West Indies at Georgetown in 1947-48: from 59-0 to 111 all out).
- Australia's victory is their 150th over England.
- For the fourth time in his Test career, Ben Stokes fell to the same dismissal in both innings of the same Test. This was the first time he had been caught by the same fielder/bowler combination, his other three Tests being bowled by the same bowler (twice) and lbw (once).
- Sam Billings became only the second wicket-keeper on debut to effect no dismissals in the first innings but five (or more) in the second. Australia's Wally Grout took six catches in this manner on his debut against South Africa at Johannesburg in 1957-58.
- The last occasion that England lost six (or more) players bowled in an innings was against South Africa at Port Elizabeth in 1999-2000. Against Australia, it was at Trent Bridge in 1989.
- England's 124 is the second-lowest total at Hobart. The lowest remains Australia's 85 against South Africa in 2016-17. England's match aggregate of 312 runs is also the second-lowest at Hobart, the lowest being Australia's 246 against South Africa in 2016-17.
- The last occasion in a Test involving England (with a result, abandoned matches being disregarded) where England's top match scorer has made the same or fewer than the 36 made at Hobart by Woakes and Crawley is 34 by Nick Knight against West Indies at Birmingham in 2000.
- For the thirty-first time in their 1045-Test history, no fifty was scored by any England player. The last occasion was against India at Chennai last year before which the Sydney Test of 2013-14 was the previous time.
- The only other series in which England bowled a slower over rate than their 12.93 in the 2020-21 series was in 1976-77 (12.37).
- England finished the series without a win in Australia for fifteen Tests. Their previous record was 12 between January 1937 and February 1951.
- Pat Cummins's 21 wickets in the series is the third-highest by an Australian captain against England. Richie Benaud heads the list with 31 in five Tests in 1958-59.
- Joe Root ended the series still without a century in Australia although he has scored three against Australia in England.
- Root, though, did reach 2000 runs against Australia, the thirteenth player to do so for England.
- Stuart Broad became the second-highest wicket-taker for England against Australia, overtaking Bob Willis's 128 wickets. Broad finished the series on 131.
- Steve Smith also experienced only his second Ashes series without a century, his only other one being in his first series between the teams in 2010-11 (when he predominantly batted lower in the order). In contrast, Warner had his fourth series out of six against England without scoring a century.
- For only their eighth time in a five-Test series, England ended the series with only one centurion (or fewer). The last occasion was also in Australia, in 2013-14, and there have been three occasions (in West Indies in 1985-86; against Australia in England in 1972, and against West Indies in England in 1963) when they scored no centuries.
- Due to the last-wicket pair holding out for a draw in Sydney, England avoided losing every available wicket in a five or six-match series for the third time. The two occasions were in West Indies in 1985-86 and in Australia in 2013-14.
- England's series aggregate of 2001 runs is their sixth-lowest (out of 59) against Australia in a series containing a minimum of five Tests. It is also their third-lowest (from 32) five-Test series aggregate in Australia, the only lower ones being 1916 in 1884-85 and 1865 in 1950-51. In this series, their average of 20.21 runs per wicket is their lowest ever in Australia (in a five-Test series).
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