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- Congratulations to Australia on regaining the Ashes after just three Tests. Some of the Test highlights can be found below.
- Joe Root became the leading scorer as captain in a calendar year when he passed Graeme Smith's 2008 aggregate of 1656 runs. Both played 15 Tests during their record year.
- Root's 1708 runs for 2021 (average 61) places him third in the all-time calendar year run list behind only Mohammad Yousuf (1788 runs in 2006) and Viv Richards (1710 in 1976). Rory Burns (530 runs in 19 innings, average 27.89) is England's next highest run-scorer in 2021.
- For the seventh time, Root top-scored in both innings of a Test. This places him second in the list for England, two behind Ken Barrington. Four players have achieved this feat on six times for England. Four of Root's occasions have been in 2021.
- Haseeb Hameed became the fifteen opener to record successive ducks for England. This is the third instance in 2021 after the same fate was suffered twice by Rory Burns.
- England's second innings 68 is their fifth-lowest total in Australia, and their lowest since they were dismissed for 61 at Melbourne in 1903-04.
- Their total is their thirteenth-lowest against all countries. Their lowest remains 45 against Australia at Sydney in 1886-87.
- England's match aggregate of 253 runs for 20 wickets is their nineteenth-lowest against all opposition. Eleven of these occasions have been against Australia, six of them in Australia.
- Scott Boland's second innings 6 for 7 is the most economical analysis by a debutant taking five wickets (or more) in one innings of his first Test. The previous best was Charlie Turner's 6 for 15 against England at Sydney in 1886-87.
- Boland's analysis is the best (in one innings) for Australia on debut since Bob Massie took 8 for 84 and 8 for 53 against England at Lord's in 1972.
- Boland equalled the record of Ernie Toshack (Australia vs. India at Brisbane in 1947-48) and Stuart Broad (England vs. Australia at Trent Bridge) in taking the quickest five-wicket haul in Tests, in 19 balls.
- Only two other Tests have been lost by an innings after trailing by fewer than the 82 runs which England conceded on first innings. The lowest is 46 at Auckland in 1954-55 when New Zealand were bowled out in the third innings for 26 to lose by an innings and 20 runs. The other occasion was at Kingston in 2008-09 when England failed to overturn a deficit of 74 against West Indies, being bowled out for 51.
- The Test was the 41st shortest (by balls bowled) to achieve a result between all countries, and the ninth-shortest between England and Australia. The Melbourne Test lasted 1084 balls. The shortest between England and Australia (with a result) is 788 balls at Old Trafford in 1888 whilst the shortest between any country is 656 between Australia and South Africa, also at Melbourne, in 1931-32.
- The match aggregate of 520 runs is the thirty-ninth lowest between all countries (with a result), whilst it stands as the twelfth-lowest between England and Australia, the lowest being 291 at Lord's in 1888. It is the second-lowest at Melbourne, the 1931-32 Test above being the lowest.
- England's over rate of 12.75 per hour (in 15 Tests) is the slowest of all Test-playing countries in 2021. Above them is New Zealand (13.10 in six Tests) whilst the highest is Afghanistan (14.73 in 2 Tests).
- England's match aggregate of 253 runs is their nineteenth-lowest against all opposition, and their eleventh-lowest against Australia.
- England's second innings saw the sixth occasion of their making four ducks in one innings at Melbourne. The same happened in 2013-14.
- Australia's 267 is the joint-seventh lowest total to win a Test by an innings. The lowest is their 153 against South Africa at Melbourne in 1931-32.
- England have now gone thirteen Tests in Australia without a victory, their longest fallow period having now passed the twelve Tests between 1 January 1937 and 8 February 1951.
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