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| Australia vs. England Second Test Highlights, Adelaide |
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- Stuart Broad became the third English player after James Anderson (167) and Sir Alistair Cook (161), and the tenth in total to represent their countries in 150 or more Tests. Sachin Tendulkar, with 200 appearances, heads the list.
- David Warner and Marnus Labuschagne became the ninth Australian partnership to aggregate over 1000 runs together for the second wicket in Tests. They achieved the feat in only their tenth Test together, and eleventh innings. The record partnership aggregate for Australia is 4734 between Matthew Hayden and Ricky Ponting in 55 Tests and 71 innings, which is also the highest for any country for that wicket.
- Warner became the fourth Australian player and tenth in total to be dismissed in the 90s in consecutive innings. The record is three by Clem Hill whose misfortunes went progressively downwards with scores of 99, 98 and 97 against England in January 1902. Gordon Greenidge suffered the fate of consecutive dismissals in the 90s on two separate occasions.
- Labuschagne became the fourth player, and third from Australia, to reach 2000 Test runs by their 20th Test. Sir Donald Bradman was the quickest reaching the milestone in his 15th Test, followed by George Headley (17th) with Michael Hussey also reaching the total in his 20th Test.
- All of Labuschagne's six centuries have been scored in Australia.
- For the twentieth time, an Australian side recorded five fifty + partnerships in the same innings against England. Their most is six at Brisbane in 2006-07. They have recorded six on three further occasions, all against West Indies.
- The last occasion that five England bowlers conceded 50 or more runs each in the same innings against Australia was at The Oval in 2013.
- For the eighth time in their history, but first time against England, two Australian players were dismissed in the 90s in the same innings.
- Dawid Malan and Joe Root shared their fifth century partnership in 20 innings. Four other partnerships for England, based on a maximum of 20 innings, have shared as many century partnerships: Les Ames & Walter Hammond; Denis Compton & Bill Edrich; Allan Lamb & Robin Smith and Andrew Flintoff & Geraint Jones.
- Root has now scored 1630 runs in the calendar year. Only Graeme Smith (1656 in 2008) stands above him with runs as captain, whilst Root's current aggregate places him fourth highest amongst all players.
- England's 236 is the fifth-lowest, completed total by all countries at Adelaide which includes a century partnership. The lowest such total is England's 183 in 1907-08.
- Jos Buttler's heroic, second innings of self-denial (26 runs in 207 balls) is the third longest by balls by a player facing a minimum of 200 balls and scoring no more than 30. Hashim Amla (25 in 244 balls for South Africa vs. India at Delhi in 2015-16 and Jack Russell, 29* in 235 balls for England vs. South Africa at Johannesburg in 1995-96) are the others.
- In terms of minutes batted, Buttler's innings (258 minutes) is the second longest taking into account the same conditions above. Amla batted 288 minutes (5.21 runs/hour), Russell 277 (6.28 runs/hour) whilst Australian Jim Burke made 28* in 250 minutes (6.72 runs/hour) for Australia vs. England at Brisbane in 1958-59. Buttler's innings is therefore the longest under the circumstances mentioned above in Australia.
- Buttler's second innings dismissal, hit wicket, is the third instance during a Test at Adelaide, the last occasion being in 1928-29. He is the 32nd England player to fall in this manner and his is the 163rd occasion in Test history. The last player to be dismissed this way in an Ashes Test was Shane Warne at Birmingham in 2005.
- For the fourth time, Steve Smith took six catches in a Test beating the previous best of Stephen Fleming's three occasions whilst the most in any Test is 8 by Ajinkya Rahane for India vs. Sri Lanka at Galle in 2015-16. Three of Smith's four times have been as captain.
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