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| Australia vs. England Fourth Test Highlights, Sydney |
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- After registering 54 ducks in 2021, England's first duck this year was scored by Joe Root, their outstanding, and significantly highest, scorer last year.
- The 128-run partnership between Ben Stokes and Jonny Bairstow is the third highest for the fifth wicket for England at Sydney. The highest of 192 between Reg Foster and Len Braund was set in 1903-04 and the second highest, between Denis Compton and Trevor Bailey, of 134 was made in 1954-55.
- Bairstow became the third number 6 Englishman to score a century at Sydney after Frank Woolley (in 1924-25) and Braund (in 1903-04). Bairstow's 154 runs in the match is also the most by an England number 6 at Sydney although it should be pointed out that both Woolley and Braund only batted once.
- Usman Khawaja became the third player to record a century in both innings of a Sydney Test. The others were Doug Walters (242 and 103 vs. West Indies in 1968-69) and Ricky Ponting (120 and 143* vs. South Africa in 2005-06).
- The 616 minutes which Khawaja batted during the Test is the fourth highest at Sydney behind only Sachin Tendulkar (721 in 2003-04); Dean Jones (686 in 1986-87) and Doug Walters (676 in 1968-69). For Australia in an Ashes Test, Khawaja's effort is twelfth longest.
- Khawaja passed 3000 Test runs during his first innings century. He also reached 2000 runs in Australia and in doing so leap-frogged six players ahead of him before the Test had begun.
- Khawaja's partnership of 179 with Cameron Green is a record at Sydney for the fifth wicket by a team batting in their second innings. The previous best was 149 between Kim Hughes and Allan Border for Australia against England in 1982-83. It is the third-highest such total in Australia also.
- Ollie Pope's feat of taking four catches as substitute wicket-keeper (for Jos Buttler) is the joint-best in Test history with Pakistan's Majid Khan (vs. West Indies at Kingston in 1976-77). It should be pointed out that Majid was in the original, selected team and replaced Wasim Bari; Pope was not in England's original side for the Sydney Test.
- For only the third time in his career, Nathan Lyon bowled a minimum of 15 overs without a maiden. The other occasions were against Pakistan at Dubai in 2014-15 and against India at Delhi in 2012-13.
- In contrast, Lyon's second innings analysis (22-10-28-2 at a rate of 1.27 runs per over) is the third most economical of his career.
- Lyon became the fifteenth most successful bowler in Tests after overtaking Wasim Akram's record of 414 wickets.
- Ben Stokes became the fifteenth player to score two fifties for England in the same Sydney Test. He is only the seventh player to do so for England in Australia at number 5.
- Zak Crawley's 77 (out of 96) in the second innings places him top of all openers for all countries for the highest percentage of runs scored whilst batting in a Test in Australia. His rate of 80.21% overtook Sir Alastair Cook's 78.46% at Melbourne during his innings of 51 out of 65 in 2013-14.
- There have now been 39 Tests which have ended with the team batting fourth nine wickets down at the end. Twenty-four of these, including the Sydney Test, have been drawn whilst fifteen have been won by one wicket. Excluded in this figure are victories where the team batting fourth has had one or more player absent. This is the first time that a Sydney Test has finished with a side finishing nine wickets down in the last innings, and drawing.
- Steve Smith's previous Test wicket (before dismissing Jack Leach) was 5 years, 2 months and 4 days beforehand. Other cricketers who have had a barren time between taking wickets include South Africa's Herbie Taylor (17 years, 1 month and 24 days, which included World War 1); Keith Fletcher (11 years, 1 month and 5 days); Ricky Ponting (6 years, 4 months and 29 days); Mike Gatting (3 years, 11 months and 22 days); Arjuna Ranatunga (6 years and 14 days), and Bill Voce (9 years and 24 days, during which World War II took place). This list is far from exhaustive and does not imply that these are the longest periods between taking wickets.
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